Painting

Art History, Intro to Visual Arts, and Painting. I wanted to take an art class that I would find interesting and make me work hard. I chose to sign up for Painting. I thought to myself, “I painted in high school a lot, I have some background in it, maybe I will like it!” In a way, I was right. I learned a lot from this class, I faced challenges, discovered new things, and learned more about myself during this semester’s painting class. I believe painting to be a method of creative expression by

In Rogier Weyden’s Virgin and child, the artist uses idealism, overlapping, dull color palette, lack of space, and smooth textures to create a calm, intimate effect on the viewer. In the painting the artist uses an idealized Mary, in which she looks like the women of the norm during the fifteenth-century, by receding her hair line to her upper forehead. The hands are overlapping the child to show us that Mary is picking up her son and pulling him to her cheek. Mary makes a clear indication that her

Diego Rivera’s famous painting, The Flower Carrier, is immensely encoded with significant social and cultural messaging. Rivera paved a path for many artists to express powerful social ideas through the medium of art and forms. The Flower Carrier allowed immeasurable masses of people to change the way in which they interact with the world; it had the power to alter the spectator’s worldview by giving them truth through visual story telling. Examining this piece offers a clear lens into the socio-political

number 7. The other piece is laying on the floor with a rectangular shape. The artist used two-dimensional to three-dimensional elements. For this piece the materials are; wood acrylic, ink, powder steel and hardware. A simple and creative method by painting the edges of the wood. He made the wood's contours looks like were perfectly cut, but actually they were painted. Natural colors and aesthetics using the floor as the scenario. A visual to the actual lines is the way they're put together. “An

Rajput Painting Throughout the modules of this course we have learned about different elements of Eastern art that give us the tools to try and understand the complexity that is Indian painting. Indian painting has dated back many centuries, starting with paintings on pottery coming from the bronze age found in Baluchistan 3 (17). Since this time until the 17th century (which is when the piece of art I chose), Indian painting has progressed and developed immensely. I chose art from the Rajput

When looking at the paintings that were created throughout the Renaissance art period, there are multiple paintings that depict religious stories. The best of these paintings has Jesus depicted within them. The majority of these paintings were created by those who had a large impact on the art “world” today. One of the most famous paintings that reveals religion within it is The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, which is similarly to The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese. When analyzing these two

Wisteria by John Salhus. The way he portrayes this wild waterfall of color, as it rushes over the wooden boards. The craziness in the waterfall reminds me of Alice in Wonderland of how it's a bit off, yet makes sense. %Floating up the background of the painting are lively lilac flowers, giving off a sense of calamity. *My eyes are first drawn to the waterfall of colors that flow over the eight wooden boards. Although this waterfall is unlike any other waterfall. It has crazy swirls of orange, green, red

Miniature Painting, with its ancient origin, bears focal significance in the history of regional art. The discipline of Miniature Painting germinates from the early rock paintings or petroglyphs (images produced by removing rock surface), found in locations like Bhimbetka and Daraki-Chattan rock shelters in Madyha Pradesh, India, nearly 30,000 years old. Later the Buddhist writings indicated the use of paintings by military elites and the noble class, however, the paintings of the Ajanta Caves (200

Rembrandt's paintings. However, the speaker claims that his paintings are true and refutes the main points made in the reading passage. The following three points of view between two parties are presented as followed. First of all, the lecturer argues that full color is used in this paintings, which questions the author' point of view that there is something inconsistent about the way the woman in the portrait is dressed. According to the speaker, she talks that using full color in the painting but using

across his workspace. Slowly, with the twists and flicks of his wrist, his painting came to life. The moon formed, round and full, with light splashes of grey in the center to create the craters and a creamy-white glow surrounded it, making it shine. Billowing clouds took their shape, twisting and curling in on themselves like the waves of the ocean, and rolled down from either