Vincent Martella

It all starts with a blank white canvas, vacant and unfilled, ready to be taken over by ideas Thoughts rush through my mind, trying to decide what to fixate the lonely white canvas with The most stressful part is determining what will make this the most unique piece Picking just the right picture to paint will make this so much more enjoyable It could be something so simple yet so detailed Once the perfect idea hits all I want to do is begin The idea flows through my mind, never ending the way

Matisse’s, Bonheur de Vivre and Picasso’s, Demoiselles d’Avignon both compare very favorable with Paul Cézanne’s, The Large Bathers. As the question indicates they are both inspired by Cezanne and yet transcend Cezanne. All of these paintings contain some sort of nudity and are sexualized in some way by it, but in all of these paintings the sensual nature does not define nor does it limit the painting. In fact I'd argue that they all share a common theme of transcending the artistic rules of their

Vincent van Gogh died about 115 years ago, but his contribution to the art world impacts the way people understand persona, beauty, individuality, and style. Thousands of drawings and paintings he made depicted characteristics that most artists copy. For example, the archetypical artist persona consideration was influenced by Vincent Van Gogh. Precisely, he painted Dutch styles with dark and earthy colors in pre-1886.He adopted the brushstroke and vibrant colors of impressionists upon moving to

The Iris Garden at Giverny is a painting by Claude Monet that was completed in the year 1900. It is currently located at the Yale University Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art. The painting is as its title states, a garden of irises located in the village of Giverny, where Monet lived and worked for the majority of his life. It’s done in a blurred style, with everything seeming to blend together to form the painting in its entirety, rather than every aspect being works in themselves. This could

Gustave Caillebotte was born on August 19, 1848. He first began studying painting when he started going to Leon Bonnat’s studio. Caillebotte’s very first studio was in his parents’, Martial Caillebotte and Celeste Daufresne, home. When Caillebotte’s father passed in 1874, he inherited his money. Caillebotte showed his first piece “Floor-scrapers” in the 1876 Impressionism exhibition. Caillebotte has a realistic style but was inspired by the Impressionism style. This painting in particular is in

The painting I chose was a painting of Chrysanthemums by Pablo Picasso. It is a very simple and straightforward, yet captivating image. The way the petals on the flowers were painted are very interesting, each of them were created with unique stroke of the brush. Picasso obviously wanted viewers to focus only flowers as the foreground and background were left somewhat rugged and undetailed. At first it may be hard to notice, however, it can be seen that the source of light for the picture is on the

The painting that I find compelling from visited the Legion of Honor museum was “Flowers In a Silver Vase” by Willemstad van Aelst. Van Aelst was born in Delft, he lived in France between 1645 and 1649. The painting is completely hand-painted with oil on linen canvas in 1663. The reason why that I choose this printing is because the topic is flowers, the sumptuous flowers in this composition are tempered by such symbols of time’s fleeting nature as an open watchcase and, at center, a tulip, which

Fournet 1 During the surrealist period, many of the art works produced were quite visual pieces. Many of the artist painted what seemed to be senseless scenes so precise that they look like a photograph. Belgian artist, Rene Magritte, created paintings that transformed everyday objects, such as the apples in “Le Prêtre Marie”, into mysteriously strange characters. Magritte was reputable for his ability to use everyday objects to create mind twisting images. Completed in 1968, “Le Prêtre Marie” portrays

Artwork can be described as a drawing, painting, or a print. In other words, Artwork does not have to be a drawing in order for it to be classified as art. Any type of creativity used in a drawing, painting, or print is considered to be artwork. Drawing is known to be the oldest type of art media. There are different types of media in each type of artwork. In drawing, there are two groups of media, dry media and wet media. Dry media consists of metal point, chalk, charcoal, graphite, and pastel.

Vincent van Gogh mentions how one will not find trompe l’oeil in his paintings because he did not have any type of technique when it came to painting. Van Gogh tries to capture the essence in the drawing because he is always working directly on the spot. He wanted to rid people of their preconceived ideas of technique and surprise them with his irregular strokes and roughness. When he describes the painting of the asylum garden he focuses on the colors. He compares the colors to different emotions