Oil painting

particular piece looks to be oil on canvas. The composition is pretty simple with the main focus being an item of some sort being dangled and a portrait of one bird. There is a multitude of colors present in this piece. It is bright and soft with light and dark tones. The artist has applied the paint onto the canvas in many different angles and directions which makes the painting appear to have overlapping colors, coarseness and uneven texture. In the middle of the painting, there is a small horizontal

favorites in that gallery where; Artist: Emily Carr. Painting: Shore and forest (Cordova bay) My depiction: The dark oil paint on the paper kinda give this calming landscape a very rugged look to it. Almost unsettling. Lots of movement with the oil paint. Artist: Lawren S. Harris. Painting: From berg lake, evening, #4 in the "sketches of mount Robson" series. My depiction: I appreciate this one for it's multitude of tones. Though it is a monotone painting it is beautiful done in the day that the changes

Venus of Urbino and Olympia are oil paintings from two different schools of painting, but the world is often used to compare these two paintings. Venus of Urbino is an oil painting created by the Italian Renaissance painter, Titian, in 1538. Titian was a representative painter of the Venetian painting school in the late Renaissance, one of the most talented painters in Italy. He is good at portraits, landscapes, myths and religious themes. He was a student of Giovanni Bellini. Under the auspices

The oil painting “Atalanta and Meleager” was painted by Peter Paul Rubens in 1616. The painting depicts a story from Metamorphoses from Ovid and the painting is in the Baroque art style. “Atalanta and Meleager” depicts the story of Meleager gifting a boar’s head to Atalanta. Meleager is depicted as the man on the right looking at the virgin Atalanta, the woman with the boar’s head on her lap. Meleager is the son of King Oneous of Claydon and Althaea. Seven days after his birth, the Fates appeared

The featured work is an oil painting on canvas titled Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace created by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in 1940. The work features a representation of the artist herself wearing a white garment, necklace made from thorns, ribbons in her hair, and butterfly hair pins. The artist’s facial expression is blank and emotionless. The artist is also portrayed with a monkey behind her right shoulder and a black cat behind her left shoulder as well as dragonfly-like insects whose bodies

Edward Hopper Title of Painting: Summertime 1943, oil paint I see: The scene presents a young maid dressed in white comming outside a large white building. The background is dominated by white walls with brick texture and two windows (one opened). The characteristics of this artwork is incredible contrast between black and white, the shadows are strong and blacks (inside the building) are deep. The lines are straight and shading is strong and directional. The subject matters the most. The dominant

In his oil painting, The Waterhouse, artist Paul Bond illuminates the beauty of nature by juxtaposing it against man’s structured world. The observer’s eyes are immediately drawn to the large fireplace in the center of the painting. It is prominently displayed in the center of the painting with a scene of an ocean replacing firewood. He uses linear perspective to create a draw the viewer’s eyes toward the center of the painting. From the mantel, the tranquil ocean is overflowing into the dreary room

Venus of Urbino is a 1538 oil painting by a man named Titan. It is 3’11” x 5’5” and it was made during the Renaissance period. It is located in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. The painting depicts a nude woman, who can be identified with the goddess Venus, laying down on a couch in a Renaissance palace. Titan finished up a painting that was left unfinished by Giorgine of a nude Venus laying down, sleeping on a hill. In his painting, he paints her laying on a couch, gazed, interacting fully

Alpine Landscape is an oil painting by German artist Julius Lange at 1866. It is considered that this painting might be based on sketches from 1856 or may date from a later trip to Switzerland. The painting basically shows a scene of mountains and a lake from a lakeside. Mountains and clouds in the sky are presented in the background. On the foot of the mountain is a lake surrounded by disorganized rocks and plants. Some rocks are stretching all the way to the center of the lake, where some people

Storm, is an oil painting that was produced in 1891 by a post impressionist painter. The painter was well known as Henri Rousseau, whom created all his pieces in Paris, France. Surprised! was the first of the jungle themed paintings, and this is relevant to all of Rousseau’s pieces because many of his paintings took place in the jungle (“Henri Rousseau Paintings, Biography, Quotes”). Surprised! features objects and details that will carry through to his later works (“Henri Rousseau Paintings”). As mentioned