Painting

thought and emotion into their paintings. Last week, as I viewed some of the paintings in the Appleton Museum I just really wondered what some of the painters were trying to get across with their paintings or at least what they were thinking of as they painted onto the canvas. Some of the painting on the wall were quite interesting and intricate while other were pretty simple and straight forward. Each of painting have something that make them different and unique. Two paintings that caught my attention

the painting of the Sistine Chapel also cherished, and The Last Supper which is probably the most reproduced piece today that’s seen in multiple locations. The piece of art that strikes me not only emotionally, but gracefully is The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. I chose The Last Supper because when I see the painting it reminds me of my religious values, from my child hood until now, I’ve seen a reproduction of it in every church I’ve been in and to this day when I look at the painting it brings

Christian paintings while not being religious for a portion of his life, he had an interesting aspect on death and Leonardo was unreliable when it came to completing work tasks. Although Leonardo da Vinci was religious in his childhood and when he was very old, he was atheist during his lifetime and still painted Christain pieces of art. He also bright death upon people and dug up dead bodies to research the anatomy. Finally, Leonardo da Vinci often gave up working on not just paintings, but other

between the wars. Born on the 23rd January 1900 at Woollahra, she was influenced variously by the works of Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall and Augustus John, her interest in design, colour and form is evident in the many still life, landscape and flower paintings she produced during her career. She used thinly applied colours and

that he was able to create. One of the paintings that have been most talked about is The Last Supper. The date for this painting is 1492/94 -1498, and can be found on page 87 in the book by Marilyn Stokstad: Art History. It was done as a wall painting for the refectory of the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan (Metmuseum.org). Da Vinci did not apply the techniques of other frescoes and, thus, the painting started flaking not long after he completed it. The painting as it is in its context today, is quite

many of the paintings that we discussed in depth in class and many that we did not, I decided to write my analysis on “Street Light,” by Giacomo Balla. I chose this painting because the colors and aspects of it intrigue me. I am also familiar with it, which can help aid me in my analysis. I was extremely interested when we discussed Futurism in class, and I was happy that I could find something in the Museum of Modern Art that had to do with that particular movement, especially a painting that we touched

Pablo Picasso and Goya were both very famous artists and were part of the cubist movement. They both have a very different style of painting but they do have similarities in some of their paintings. For example, Picasso's Guernica and Goya's Third of May are similar in ways. The Guernica is probably Pablo Picasso's most famous work. It is a painting that expresses his most influential political statements. It is about his personal reaction to the Nazi's casual bombing practice on the Basque town

well-known paintings of the Renaissance Era, if not one of the most famous paintings in the world. The Last Supper was a commission by Ludovico Sforza, who was da Vinci’s patron, for the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan around we believe 1495. It took approximately three years to complete. The painting itself was done on a refectory, dining hall, wall inside the convent; making it around fifteen feet by twenty-nine feet. Leonardo da Vinci loved to experiment with different painting styles

The paintings Venus of Urbino by Titian and The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli both have a prostrate woman as the focus of the piece. The women in the pieces are both seen in overtly sexual poses, which has allowed for critics over the centuries to call both pieces explicit. The idea of female sexuality that is shown in the two pieces portrays dissenting opinions of the concept. These different opinions seem to reflect the popular ideas and art movements of the era in which they were created. While Titian

My first thoughts upon seeing this painting is the ambitious use of light, particularly the use of manmade light as a contrast to the dark night time surroundings. I think that this is intriguing, and this is one of the pieces in particular that drew me towards Hopper as an artist. In the image there are three figures sitting in a brightly lit downtown diner. In the centre sits a man, with a cigarette in his hand, wearing a suit and a red-haired woman wearing a red dress, which grabs the viewer’s