Vincent Martella

Behind the Darkness of the Parade: A Battle Against Humanity Within a painting, the watercolors and each discrete stroke of the brush gives each element a diverse connotation. The Parade By Abraham Rattner, was painted in 1969 to illustrate the protests of the Vietnam war that the United States was involved in.This exceptional piece of art work exhibits the warm colors of the crowd and the fiery blazes colored across the skies, highlighting the widespread conflicts the nation had against this horrendous

Formal Analysis on Van Gogh's Café de Nuit (The Night Café) Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch painter that belonged to the post-impressionism movement. As years of mental illness and anxiety progressively became worse, his unfortunate death at 37 years old came to be via a gunshot wound to the head, which many assume and accept to be self-inflicted. This compelling emotion is definitely illustrated in his work because often it is honest and bold. In Van Gogh's, The Night Cafe, the artist's

Van Gogh’s “Arles period” lasted between 1888 and 1889. This was a time when Van Gogh moved from Paris to Arles, France to get away from the fast-moving life that was Paris in 1888. The Arles Period was a successful and experimental period for Van Gogh; serving as an opportunity for both new work and inspiration. One of Van Gogh’s most infamous Arles paintings, The Night Café, can be credited by the influence of Arles. The Night Cafe was a painting replicated after the Café De La Gare, a place

Starry Night Renowned artist, Vincent Van Gogh, expresses his practice of religion through his artwork, “When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars”. In this statement he is expressing how his religion affects his artwork. Van Gogh’s faith is portrayed in his paintings in the sense that it inspires his creative ideas. In Van Goghs’ painting Starry Night, the oppression of religion is being voiced through the foremost focal figure, the wave

Outsider artists are self-taught and have little to no experience before entering the field of art. Since outsider artists have no formal training in visual arts, their style is unrecognizable. One of the most popular outsider artists was Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh did not go to study art from anyone nor did he go to an art institution. Van Gogh was born in the Netherlands, but when he started to develop an interest in art, he moved to Paris to stay with his brother, Theo, who was an art dealer

Pierre Auguste Renoir was born to a working class family in Limoges, Haute-Vienne on February 28, 1841. He worked in a porcelain factor as a young boy which helped to develop his paint skills as he was selected to paint designs on fine china. In his early years, he visited the Louvre, and studied the master artists of France. Renoir, like Monet, studied art under the hand of Charles Gleyre in Paris in 1862. Renoir was married to Aline Victorine Charigot in 1890, and had three children. Two years

Peter Paul Rubens, a painter and an inspiration to many, was brought to this earth in a town called Siegen in Westphalia (which is now Germany) on June 28, 1577 and passed on May 30th, 1640. He was one of seven siblings. His parents cherished and loved him dearly, but once his father passed away in 1587 the family picked up and moved to the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium) where they each when about their own lives. He received his education in art and married twice, he also had eight children.

I think what appeals to me about the artist Henri Matisse was the use of color in his work. To Matisse the color and shapes of objects were feelings rather than the object themselves. At the same time, he invested the canvas with a thrilling color radiance, that, like smell (as Matisse himself observed), subtly but intensely suffuses the senses (Fiero 366). Looking at his work Madame Matisse, it feels as though he is painting her face with different colors for a reason. Even both sides of the background

Bellows’ painting The Cliff Dwellers, captures the residents of these apartment buildings in the Lower East Side neighbourhood of New York City on an unbearably hot summer day. In the background of the painting are rundown russet apartment buildings, with the residents poking their heads out of the windows and standing outside on their balconies. There are also clothes lines attached from one apartment building to the next, where the citizens are hanging their clothes out to dry. The painting itself

Cezanne’s “The Large Bathers” painting is built on impressionism doing something classical, providing a setting for abstraction that is to come (Khan Academy, 2017). As with many painters Cezanne takes inspiration from another painter’s work, in this case he is inspired by Titian. This painting paid it forward, providing inspiration for Picasso’s Les Demoiselles Avignon and Matisse Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) (Khan Academy, 2017). Why was “The Large Bathers” important? Cezanne produced classical