Canvas College Essays Samples For Students

Fauvism flourished in France during the early part of twentieth century and the Fauve painters were known to break away with Impressionism. The Fauves were known to known for their use vibrant colors and bold brushstrokes and how they sought new picture space with the movement of color planes. The exuberant Fauve artworks style carried highly intense color and has often been compared to German Expressionism because of the spontaneous brushwork with brilliant colors. The short lived phase of the early twentieth-century, Fauvism brought stronger color values over the realistic values of Impressionism. Henri Matisse and André Derain are ...

Modernism created Post-Modernism and the emergence of these two influential art movements created a lasting impact on the artists’ perception of iconography. The history concerning modernism dates back in the Renaissance period since the majority of the artists at that time explored various kinds of iconography such as painting mythological creatures, portraiture, and humanism which contrasts the iconography of the Medieval period. But the lasting effects of the modern period were felt in the early 19th century up to the early phase of the 20th century. The concept of Modernism meant an improvisation of the existing artistic trend by ...

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) - postimpressionist, originally Dutch. His creative legacy had a huge impact primarily on French painting.
. In 1878 he settled in the mining region and for the first time faced with glaring poverty. Feeling powerlessness to change their sermons, Van Gogh, after all, afflicted his money, property and clothing, and decides to study art. For this he moved to The Hague.
The first paintings of Van Gogh belong to the so-called "Dutch period", covering 1881-1886 years. Van Gogh ordinary depicted laborers in all their ugliness of their daily life ...

Who would have ever imagined, in their wildest dreams that a simple splatter of paint, a solid coat of one single colour painted on a canvas, or even an infant like sketch that would take 10 seconds to complete, would in the right hands sell for millions and millions of dollars? Is this even possible in today’s vast and sweeping art market? It most certainly is, and records for highest priced artworks sold over the last century continue to be broken to this very day. However it is our intention to explore specifically as to why such simple ...

The essay discusses three artworks by a contemporary artist who is living today and compares them to classic Surrealist artworks. The contemporary artist chosen for this essay and carrying elements of the surreal in his work is Mohammad Zaza, who is a Syrian artist. Three artworks of Zaza are chosen for analysis in the paper, namely, “The shell”, “Face of the Machine” and “Mind”.
Surrealism as another art form that embraced chaos and the irrational. The Surrealists tried to unlock the imagination of the mind, rejecting rationalism and realism. The focus here was to tap the unconscious mind. It ...

13th to 14th century European Art (Proto-Renaissance Art/Byzantine Influence)

Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Saint Francis Altarpiece. Tempera on wood. Circa 1235. San Francesco, Pescia, Italy.
Giotto di Bondone, Lamentation. Fresco. Circa 1305. Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy.

Art in the 1348 at the time of the Great Plague

15th century Northern European Art (Greco-Roman Revival)
Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Ghent Altarpiece. Oil on wood. Circa 1432. Cathedral Ghent Belgium.
Petrus Christus. A Goldsmith in His Shop. Oil on wood. Circa 1449. MetMuseum.

Renaissance in Europe.

18th century: The Baroque and Rococo Art Movements (Elaborate and Gaudy Designs to Neo-Classical Motifs)
Jean Honore Fragonard. The Swing. 1766. Oil on canvas. Wallace Collection, London.
Adelaide Labille-Guiard. Portrait with Two Pupils. 1785.

The Romantic Period in the 1800: The Fear of the Subtle

Theodore Gericault. The Raft of ...

A native citizen of Spain and a recognized king of bohemian Paris, Pablo Picasso was a bright example of versatile talent and fantastic commitment to his lifework. He continuously tried new styles and forms, looked for new color compositions, used unusual materials, and, when two-dimensional images started to seem him boring, founded cubism to give them a new dimension. Together with Georges Braque, Picasso massively determined art development of the twentieth century. The widely recognized ancestor of Picasso’s cubism is his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) created in 1907 during the African period of ...

Introduction

The landscape has often been used as a descriptive element and to create an atmospheric perspective in art work by different artists since ancient times. Beautiful landscapes are believed to detoxify the spirit and mind, and carry a healing power as stated by Andrews (1999, p.53). They are an effort by the artist to capture the fleeting moment of nature in time on the canvas.Thesis
“The Shore at Trouville Sunset Effect” by Courbet, who is known to initiate the Realist movement in 19th-century that bridged the Romantic Movement and the Impressionists (The Shore at Trouville Sunset Effect, 2016). The ...

Art is considered as one of the most diverse human activities. Some examples of art-related activities include the production of artwork, historical study of art, critique of artwork, and the dissemination of artwork. Visual arts is one of the oldest forms of art that has been identified and used over the years. This type of art is composed of different components inclusive of the creation of images and objects in several fields such as sculpture and painting. The following paper will look into two paintings from different painters. These paintings comprise, paintings of Willem Van Aelst-Flowers in a Silver ...

The essay discusses the huge Oil on canvas- “The Voyage of Life: Childhood” by Thomas Cole, that is currently displayed at Dixon Gallery and Gardens, which is a fine art museum and public garden. There are more than 2,000 objects including paintings and porcelain in huge diversity.

Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood (1839-1840) - Oil on canvas

Thomas Cole, the British artist, emerged as a prominent figure in the late 1820s. His work related to the romantic pre-Civil War America. “The Voyage of Life” is a one of the series of landscapes that display his greatest achievements (Current Exhibitions 2016). The magnificent landscape is one of the important ...

Introduction

In the 19th and 2oth centuries, artists found new ways of representing their work that was opposed to the conventional way in which art was done. Many of them developed new styles that incorporated modern art which sought to highlight the aspect of postmodernism in the ways of life of the people. Such art was different from what was identified in the centuries that were prior to the 18th, especially what was the case in the renaissance. The artists curved art and offered continuity if what their predecessors had left, but only did so with a sense of freedom and ...

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Visual analysis
“The Water Lily Pond” also known as “The Japanese Footbridge” and “Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies” is a beautiful piece of art having no abstract nature. It is oil-on-canvas form of art. It was made by Oscar-Claude Monet in 1899. He is known as one of the founders of impressionist painting.
In the year 1893, Monet purchased land with pond in Giverny, France. He wanted to have something that looks beautiful and could also be converted into painting. He made “The Water Lily Pond” while looking at that land. In 1899, he developed eighteen ...

Artists rejected their historical experience. They tried to find a new beginning in art, to update the perception and understanding of art in society.
The most famous modernist trends are styles such as avant-garde, suprematism, primitivism, cubism, surrealism, futurism, expressionism and abstractionism. Each of them has its purpose, on the basis of the original philosophical idea or thought.
Primitivism in art is a deliberate distortion of the image, the method of simplification. This style imitates a primary, primitive stages of the development of painting (Lewis, 70).
Suprematism was presented in simple forms - the foundations of the universe. Kazimir ...

Renaissance (14th to the 17th century) is a term coined by architect, painter and historian Giorgio Vasari to determine the era in which cultural movement was intended to revive antiquity and open perspectives of development the Western culture (James-Chakraborty, 2014). In the medieval period art was strongly connected with religion, it was full of divine meaning and was usually created for churches. Before the Renaissance, the person was never depicted independently. At the end of the eighteenth century in iconographies by St. Martin, John. Fabriano, Cimabue cheerful images showed the volume and emotions. The cult of beauty is typical ...

George Braque understood art in terms of lines, mass, volume and weight used these elements to create subjective beauty. The purpose of art was to create rapport between him and the art piece (Mical, 2003). Braque yearned to not only see but touch artwork and so he created pieces that bridged the manual space and later incorporated other materials like sand and paper onto the canvas. He fragmented his subjects into pieces as a way of getting close to the subject like an artistic surgeon. Fragmentation allowed him to achieve space and movement in his pieces. In the Violin and ...

Chapter 20

Essay Question #1: 10 points
Describe the art movement Fauvism. Why were they named that? Who were significant artists that belonged to the Fauves. What set them apart from the artists before them? Where did their ideas come from? Who were their influences?
Fauvism was a liberal movement where artists experimented on their color and style choices, by choosing vivid and brightest colors to being out art in its purest form. The term fauvism (coined in 1905 by Louis Vauxcelles) arose from the word “fauves” meaning “wild beasts”, because of its boldness and the shocking reaction it evoked ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston makes available to the American audience works of art from almost all periods in the history of art. Among the most impressive works that can be seen at the Museum, are the following eight examples which represent the work of different artists in different periods of human history. Each displays the characteristics of the style that flourished in the period and place of its creation.

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Giuliano Bugiardini, 1510’s, oil on panel.

Arranged in a triangular composition, the three figures seem to promenade in a field. A youthful Virgin Mary, dressed in a red dress and a blue mantle looks out of the ...

René Magritte's oil on canvas painting The Son of Man (1964) has become a very popular visual text in a short period of time. The symbolism and unusual and enigmatic create a holistic picture of the semantic code that every viewer tries to interpret. Although the canvas contains a fairly small number of different details, as contrasted with Bosch or Rubens' paintings, yet there is a deep consisting of several layers meaning in it. The painting contains a number of visual symbols, which have already become some kind of the archetypes of modern society. The Son of Man (see ...

The prison has become a much more dangerous place since the coming in power of California’s big four gangs. Prisoners are being forced into doing their bidding while they involve these unwilling participants in drug trafficking, contraband smuggling, and assaults. The same is what professor Vasquez says in lecture 2 for week 1, that if they order a crime; the inmates have to get it done. In case they refuse, they have to face ‘consequences’.
The urgency to take action on these prison gang members is because they have the power to be extremely notorious and they never ...

When taking the first look at this painting, it is impossible not to notice a vast discrepancy between the positive and the negative space of it. The positive space takes up the major and central part of the painting, particularly pushing the negative space aside in the upper half of the canvas. The disproportionate amount of the positive space against the negative space is prominent in this painting. Therefore, the figure of a woman appears to be instantly grasping one’s attention, and the focus is drawn to the upper half of the woman’s body. This is what ...

Within the frameworks of the art course conducted for us the main focus is put on the course book named “Living with art” by Mark Getlein. The book provides a thorough, fairly detailed but at the same time briefed representation of the key pillars, principles and points of art. Therefore, reading of the book generates an overall picture of artistic theory in the mind of the reader, so that even a person vaguely acquainted with the world of art and its theory is supposed to master those bases and apply them to their understanding and feeling of beauty.

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One artist captures you with his subtle strokes while the other captivates with the sheer drama that happens in the canvas. Vermeer and El Greco-artists with completely different styles yet united by the magic they bring about in the emotions of their figures. In the two paintings of Vermeer, ‘Study of a Young Woman’ and ‘Young Woman with a Water Pitcher’, there is a certain sense of stillness and serenity as opposed to the paintings of El Greco which is rather dramatic. Perhaps it is the setting and theme of the paintings, but the two works of El Greco, ‘Opening of the ...

Katsushika Hokusai’s work of art titled “The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa” is off his woodblock print paintings is contained in the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. This woodblock artwork belongs to the Edo period. The substances of the paintings are highly visual, and visual language has been used to define the scenario in the painting. The view of Mount Fuji is distinct in the background of the canvas, and the background of the painting demonstrates a powerful imagery of the power of nature. Waves are shown crashing against two fishing boats (Dewitte, Larmann, and Shields).
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Chuck Close’s “Frank”: Everyman as Art

The late author Douglas Adams said that art is holding a mirror up to the Universe – although he then pointed out that there was not a mirror big enough, since the Universe was infinite in size. So what’s an artist to do? American artist Chuck Close brings that mirror down to size by making his subject huge. In “Frank” (1969), a grey-toned acrylic painting of a black-and-white photograph, an everyday man becomes a monumental work of art. Close shows that the everyman is just as valid a subject for art than classical themes or the upper class.
It has only been very recently ...

For the vast majority of the history of art, protest has been limited to the written forms. Whether it is the ancient story of Antigone, calling the codes of honor of ancient Greece into question, or Boccaccio’s Decameron, ridiculing the high horse atop which the Catholic Church attempted to perch during the Black Plague, or the portrait of infinite government surveillance in Orwell’s 1984 that still chills readers today, the tradition of protest is much older in writing than in visual arts. This should not be taken to suggest that artists in other genres did not have ...

1566, oil on wood

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
"'THE CENSUS AT BETHLEHEM'". Google Cultural Institute, https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/exhibit/zQKyGcrY3z1hKQ.
The Census at Bethlehem (also known as The Numbering at Bethlehem) by Pieter Bruegel is a part of the collection of Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium as Bruegel was Flemish renaissance artist. The painting can be seen in great detail through Google Cultural Institute, which is very handy because, similarly to Bosch, Pieter Bruegel includes a lot of details and a diverse number of actions going on. Because of that the viewer may be looking at a painting for a long ...

Business

Every year hundreds of people in different countries across the world take a chance and try their faith and start their own small business, which requires a lot of hard work. But for those who survive, the rewards is worth a try.
An entrepreneur is an individual, who starts building up his business with limited amount of resources, knowledge, planning, who should always take into account all the risks, remuneration and rewards of his business venture. Business ideas of new start ups set up by entrepreneurs are usually new to the market – an innovation, product or service, but not ...

Introduction

“Modernist Painting” by Clement Greenberg is his first essay on modernism, and it is notable for showing his mid-life perception and importance of the avant-garde. Although he does not mention the term “avant-garde,” instead, he uses the words “authentic art,” He identifies Modernism with the intensification and according to him the essence of Modernism lies in the characteristic methods. He considers Immanuel Kant to be the first Modernist. He describes how Modernist trend applies to the painting disciplines, how the transparency of medium and technique is used on the flat plane of the canvas. He compares the Modernist painting ...

Dear Friend, I am deeply interested in an interesting art work “Woman with a hat” by the famous artist Henri Matisse, who is one of my favorites. The canvas was done in the year 1905 and first exhibited at Salon d'Automne in Paris. However, as I intend to see the artwork, I am traveling to San Francesco where the artwork is displayed at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Femme au chapeau 2016). I want to know more about the artist and his work. Fortunately, I live close to San Francesco and drove there on a weekend. I stayed ...

John

1971-72
acrylic on gessoed canvas
100 x 90 in. (254 x 228.6 cm)
Chuck Close is an artist known for such huge portraits in photorealistic style. Regarding his techniques, as he is working with a variety of drawing and painterly techniques, like printmaking, tapestry, and photography, in this painting John, he also refers to photography to make the painting. The hyper-realistic element is important to him so he uses mechanical elements to move the image to the canvas although working only using his sight ‘to achieve the intensely animate detail, sectioning off the reference photographs into grids and transferring ...

Executive Summary

Family businesses have been making vital contributions to the British economy and the forecast indicates even more in the coming years. A typical family business in UK, Associated British Foods plc, has been performing consistently well for over 100 years. The company has built up portfolios in Sugar, Agriculture, Retail, Grocery and Ingredients segments and owns many of the most famous food brands. Starting with bakery products, the company has diversified into the other segments mostly by prudent acquisitions. The models generally used for analysing family businesses, namely the three circle model, the 12S model and the business canvas ...

Titian’s and Peter Paul Rubens’s Venus and Adonis

The essay looks at Rubens and Titian version of Venus and Adonis and makes a comparison of their style. While Rubens and Titian version of Venus and Adonis, Rubens’s picture is typically Baroque. Rubens was greatly influenced by Titian and copied his version of Venus and Adonis. The story behind Venus and Adonis is derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The goddess Venus is shown clinging to her mortal lover, the handsome young Adonis, whom she is infatuated with. Venus attempts to stop her lover from going hunting. But hunting is a passion with Adonis and he knew that it ...

The oil on canvas “Rocks at Belle -Isle” by Claude Monet is currently featured in the online catalog in the Art Institute of Chicago. The Institute keeps on featuring different artists time to time displaying a variety of art forms (Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île 188). Claude Monet, the famous impressionist painter, was born in Paris on November 14 in the year 1840. Monet was the founder of French Impressionist paintings; the term was taken from his painting Titled “Impression, Sunrise”. The paper will discuss and analyze the magnificent and strikingly beautiful artwork “Rocks at Belle –Isle” by him ...

The Ivy Bridge Devonshire (see fig. 1) was an oil painting created by the famous English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner from 1814 to 1815. The term ‘scenery porn’ aptly describes the artist’s magnificent use of lines as decorative element to create wonderful landscapes. The colors were mostly earth tones with chiaroscuro was highly executed, creating an unworldly appearance that illustrates the peaceful life of the common people in the early 19th century England. The painting shows a young man wearing a beret hat, running across the bridge towards the carriage probably echoing shouts to halt the carriage ...

The focus of the essay is to analyze “Mercury and Argus” by Carel Fabritius and how effectively it conveys the impression of deep space.Mercury and Argus, 1645-47, oil on canvas - Carel Fabritius. This painting “Mercury and Argus” appeared in a saleroom in Monaco, signed by Carel Fabritius, who was one of the most brilliant students of Rembrandt (Raux 103). The subtle coloring and blond tonalities may remind one of texturing done by Rembrandt, but it should not be mistaken for Rembrandt's work. The rustic genre scene of the painting portrays a mythological theme according to which Argus, a ...

Blade Runner is an iconic film that was directed by Ridley Scott in 1981 and based on the novel of Philip Dick "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". The film in its two-version interpretations became one of the style-forming movies of the 1980-90s, and also gave rise to the Hollywood tendency to screen anti-utopian stories of Philip Dick. The deep problematic canvas of the film that is based on the idea that a person's conceptions regarding the world and his place in it can appear to be intentionally falsified by third parties, entities or intelligent, received subsequent development in ...

Summary

Greenberg was is an essay that was written in 1939 during a time which it attracted a lot of criticism. It was published in the journal of Partisan Review. It became a point of concern. The author wrote many articles in the form of literacy criticism. The massage was repelled by many groups, including the totalitarian seizure of Europe.
However, the essay many and important messages to the public. Firstly, it could reach large masses of people due to its mode of presentation. The main drawback in passing the message was lack of arenas specifically in the United States ...

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was a prominent American Impressionist and the first female to launch her own exhibit in the Paris Salon. In her time, there few women who managed to succeed in the field of art, especially for a colonial. She was educated by famous French masters such as Degas and spent most of her time copying the artworks of the previous masters. Cassatt first studied arts in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1860 up to 1862. As a woman, her determination is quite remarkable as she managed to successfully persuade her parents to let her ...

Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns are distinct artists in aspects of their style and things that influenced their art. They are, however, both influential artists that changed the face of art in their times and share that in common. Jackson Pollock was motivated into his art by his personal life and struggles. The artist, who dies in a car accident in 1956, was known for his struggle against alcoholism. He met Dr. Joseph Henderson who helped to shape the course of his art career in 1941. The psychiatrist made him express his feelings through art, and that helped him cope ...

“Weeping woman with handkerchief” is one of acclaimed paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Picasso painted this oil on canvas painting in the year 1937. The canvas is 21 x 17 1/2 in size that is not that large, but is very striking. The focal point of this picture is pain and through this canvas, Picasso has portrayed how much pain, a human face can communicate. This paper intends to discuss and analyze Weeping woman with handkerchief.
Weeping woman with handkerchief shows how a Spanish woman is busted and sniveling into a handkerchief. The woman is dressed in a mantilla and wears a ...

Fred M. Lauderdale

Creatine College
France is something like a Mecca to the art world, yet it would be fair to say the “god” of this sacred city has changed seats more times than a game of duck-duck-goose. I plan on comparing and contrasting two periods of art: the mid-19th century versus the early 20th century. One may be tempted to think that Realists and Cubists were light-years apart. After all, Realism depicted the world from an empirical perspective, focusing on veracity, while Cubism is considered by many to be the first abstract art style. Both art periods were a reaction to, a rebellion against, ...

Introduction

Hierarchic scale refers to the act or process of manipulating the size and the space in a given picture. Usually, this is done in order to emphasize the importance of some specific object in the picture. For instance, when an individual undertakes to paint a picture of some woman in a farm of vegetables, one could do several things to the picture in order to emphasize the importance and the value that is attached to the object in question. If the most important thing in that picture is the shoe that the woman is wearing, then the person painting the picture would ...

Introduction:

I decided to visit the Norton Simon Museum of Art, 411 W. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, corner of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd and can safely say that I was pretty much bowled over by the experience. Paintings are arranged in a very helpful manner and I was definitely spoilt for choice with regards to the array of works on offer. First off I decided to analyse Pierre Auguste Renoir’s seminal painting, ‘The Pont des Arts, Paris’ dating from 1878 and which is oil on canvas. This is a truly seminal painting in French impressionist style and it demonstrates the ...

The exterior of the Metropolitan along 5th Avenue is a wide plaza with small areas with greenery, fountain and places to sit and relax. The plaza is being renovated so the usual effect of the large plaza leading into the well lit and airy lobby was not one hundred percent but it could still be felt. The two areas, internal and external seemed connected and moving for one space to the other seemed perfectly natural. The lobby/front hallway of the interior of the museum was so open and airy I felt very small and that the design was made to ...

Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the most influential and well-known artists in modern American history. Her unique vision and her ability to expressly capture the environments and objects she paints are well-renowned, as well as her capacity to bring evocative feminist messages through in her works. Ever since her discovery in New York in 1916, she has existed as one of the most integral female artists in the world, providing a uniquely feminine voice to art long before women were able to successfully break in a major way into the art community. Her unique and vivid style is exemplified in the ...

The shift towards the Modernist Period from the decadence of the Baroque happened as a result of the outrage and disapproval towards lavishness in creating works of art, a trend once dominant and fashionable amongst the wealthy circles. What emerged as a result of this isolation was a new artistic movement that focused more on inspiring awe and sublime rather than theatrical presentation of the iconography. The term Modernist period has been debated throughout the centuries by the scholars since this period holds accountable of the changes in government and the people’s way of thinking. In this genre ...

In "4 Artists Paint 1 Tree," the Disney documentary discusses four artists and their various methodologies in constructing the painting of a tree. Through interviews and commentary by Disney himself, the documentary provides a significant understanding to that of the animated world and all that it encompasses. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the differences, and similarities, if applicable, between the four artists and their techniques.

Initial Observations

Davis comments in the video that "the object [of animation] is not to select the best drawing, but to arrive at the drawing that would look best in motion" ("4 Artists" ...

The Modern period from the late 19th to the early phase of the 20th century served as the catalyst for the beginning of avant-garde works of different artists whose works isolated their styles from the rest of the artistic movements that emerged in the previous eras. These new designs spearheaded the development of the comic book art wherein the iconography of the subjects attempted to portray the real world yet in an animated way without closely resembling the reality. The artists who popularized these method includes Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Larry Rivers each of the defined the early ...

In the context of contemporary global business environment, a good business model describes the logical functioning of a business/organization and it pronounces the specific manner in which a business makes profit. Principle description of a business model helps to understand, analyze, and communicate the key factors of success or failure of a business. Principally, a well-developed business model is comprised of three major components i.e. value proposition, value chain structure, and revenue model. The value proposition is the first and the most significant component of a business model as it directly communicates the business value to the customers. The ...

“The cup of tea” is an “oil on canvas” painting by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), an American artist born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The painting was created between 1880 and 1881. The painting represents Mary’s sister Lydia Simpson, but the picture is not about the portrait rather the cultural activity represented by the cup of tea,. The activity played a major role in the impressionist imagery, a mainstay of Cassatt in her contemporary life. Cassatt had good knowledge of color, and her impressionist imagery was greatly displayed by this fine piece of art. The artist was keen not to make ...

Paintings serve as the visual records that provide the 21st century with important information regarding the structure of the society, culture, styles, and the ideologies that prevailed in that period. Aside from providing aesthetic beauty, paintings made by artists such as Degas, Greuze, and David did not only educate the scholars of the styles they used but it also exposed a brutal realism of the destruction of the family bonding amongst its members. The purpose of this paper is to connect the paintings of these artists and examine their context as relevant to the growth of familial isolation and ...

Woman Holding Balance and Birth of Venus

While art may often imitate life, it also reflects passions and beliefs. These expressions are consistent, in some ways, across history and style or form, however, each expression is unique and contains qualities that others do not. This can be seen in two iconic works with female subjects in “Woman Holding Balance” and “The Birth of Venus.” These two works are similar in their iconic representation of the female form, and their religious significance, however their medium, form, and subject matter contrast significantly.
First, it is significant to consider the form. Both works are paintings, but that is where ...

The oil on canvas “The Abduction of Europa” was created by the Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmensz and is displayed in The J. Paul Getty Museum (The Abduction of Europa 2011). Rembrandt attempted mythology rarely, and this was his one the finest piece based on the characters from an ancient Roman poem named Metamorphosis written by Ovid. In his poem, Ovid narrated a story about the god Jupiter, who concealed his identity and appeared as a white bull to seduce the princess Europa and take her to a faraway land to be named after her. Here in his painting, Rembrandt ...

Introduction

Different art pieces convey unique idea of the artist and aims to address the viewer through the visual representation of artistic image. However, the interpretation of the piece of art can vary significantly among the viewers. This phenomenon stems from the different factors, like personal vision, set of values, perception of art piece, cultural background, knowledge, and tons of other individual indicators. During the present research the piece of art that has to be analyzed is Study for The Apotheosis of Washington in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol Building created by Constantino Brumidi, the painter with diverse ...

Jacques Louis David, The Death of Socrates, Oil on canvas, 51 x 77 ¼ in., 1787.
David’s painting situates Socrates in the center of the painting, clad in a white robe, implying purity, surrounded by his followers as he reaches for his poisonous tonic of hemlock. His abdomen is vertically straight, his left leg is positioned on the ground while his right is above his bed—he appears to be in motion. This bodily position reflects Socrates’ proud demeanor to die as he lived: passionately discussing philosophy. David portrays Socrates as defiant in his confrontation with his impending mortality. ...

Flora

Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born in Leiden, probably on 15 July, 1606, as the ninth of the 10 children of Harmen Gerritszoon van Rijn, and his wife, Neeltgen. At the age of 9, Rembrandt began his education at the Latin school. After his apprenticeship, the artist soon became famous for his portraits. Rembrandt is best-known for his self-portraits, which follow him aging throughout the years, but also illustrate the changes of his artistic style (Klein 15).
On June 22, 1934, Rembrandt married Saskia van Uylenburgh, a young woman from a ...

Abstract

The essay summarizes the arguments of Greenberg and Rosenberg's ideologies on art. Different art critics have supported various art movements, shaping the understandings of the artists' work. Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg have put forward their own interpretations of the art movements and their view were contrasting and opposed. Greenberg essay reflects on the social and historical context and the notion of modernism. On the other hand, according to Harold Rosenberg, it is almost impossible to define the movement in art. For the first time, the idea of acceptable art in the society is discussed upon. Greenberg focused on ...

Abstract

Salvador Dali can be considered the iconic painter of the surrealist movement. He was cheeky, provocative, ironic, and disrespectful in his attitude to all he came in contact with. He took the foundations of surrealism to their extreme. Dali raised surrealism to a higher artistic level by depicting emotions and thoughts ranging from realism to delirium. His unusual creativity is evocative because of its mysteriousness and uncertainty. This paper attempts to discover a little more about this Spanish artist and takes a look at one of his most famous paintings.

Curatorial Statement
The exhibition, “Thirty Years of Dali” has ...

Article Summaries

Jackson Pollock was a towering figure of the abstract art movement during the mid-20th century. To many, his death meant the end of an era. Indeed, he was an instrumental painter whose loss was felt by many.
Jackson Pollock was an innovator in so many ways. For example, Kaprow (1993) contends that Pollock's paintings are innovative in terms of line, form, and space (Kaprow, p. 6). Spatially, Kaprow (1993) insists that Pollock, much like the cubists, could produce the effect of an extension of space (Kaprow, p. 7). Thus, Pollock pioneered almost single-handedly a movement that still influences today's ...

Made In China: Chinese Artistic Representations of Capitalist Consumption

In this exhibition, themes of appropriation and authenticity play themselves out in the works of Chinese artists Ai Wei Wei, Tamen, and Liu Bolin. Ai Wei Wei challenges us to reconsider what is authentic and what is consumerism. Liu Bolin’s works represents consumerism in the style of the vacation postcard — except in his photographs, the figure is camouflaged, evocative of the notion of China incorporated into a culture, but not identified. Ta Men’s paintings evoke the original anecdote of authenticity and food in the North American imagination.
Chinese art that represents capitalist consumption brings to mind two ...