As a result, the artists are both directly challenging the traditional Paris Academy style (Stokstad, 2011, pg. 928, 978) Stylistic Differences The differences in the paintings are evident in subject matter and style. Fuseli is telling a story thr Continue Reading...
In his attempt to paint the goddess, the Renaissance painter inspired from the mythological legend of Venus's birth. The Roman Goddess of love apparently emerged out of the sea as a result of a foam formed around Uranus's genitals that had just been Continue Reading...
Why did the airing of HG Well's novel "War of the Worlds" on the radio cause so much panic? What would it take to cause that type of panic from a Hoax like "War of the Worlds" in this day and age? First and foremost, the 1.2 million U.S. radio list Continue Reading...
The famous canvasses are omnipresent but usually left in the background, kept in Theo's salon or, strangely, subjected to repeated mutilation: smeared, thrown, smashed to demonstrate their (and the artist's) fragility. In the painting scenes, occasi Continue Reading...
Piece 2: Mask Description: This is a bronze mask depicting a young male face. The eyes are hollow, which would allow the wearer of the mask to see, and there are holes in the nostrils and the mouth that would allow him to breathe. He is wearing a Continue Reading...
One time, when she was sketching the necklace of her aunt, an idea stumbled in her mind. It was at this very moment that she realized that she might actually be able to make a good business out of her jewelry designs. She started this business at h Continue Reading...
Herbert Reed saw these bronze sculptures as "apparitions," or "primordial images projected from the deepest level of the unconscious, and they illustrate the truth that the artist is essentially the instrument of unconscious forces" (Mitchinson 1998 Continue Reading...
Support for the figure being Diogenes rather than Socrates has been found in the fact that he is prone, and alone, which seems to suggest Diogenes' status as an antisocial Cynic -- he also called himself a 'dog.' However, the painting seems to depic Continue Reading...
Indeed, by immediately demonstrating the intent to create a comic strip-based explanation of the field of comic through corresponding exposition and illustration, the author both contends and shows that comics can have purpose, intelligence and even Continue Reading...
In conclusion, Heinrich Wolfflin, an art critic of the early 1950's, points out that Leonardo's the Last Supper exhibits all of the classical elements of Western art and those of the High Renaissance. Also, the three major trends of 15th century pa Continue Reading...
They retained the intuitively "felt placement," the perspective, the conventional stylizations of water and foliage, and the bright colors of Yamato painting, but enlarged the vision from illustrated scrolls to large screens of many panels, intended Continue Reading...
"A prime source for her early art," Sara Whitaker Peters writes (Peters 192), was her "...powerful physical reaction to nature and to individuals." The "suggestively layered mountains, canyons, and mesas," Peters continues, seem to be "vestiges" of Continue Reading...
Beever's success has skyrocketed from his skill in this realism. As a result, he has been eagerly contracted for various special events of both political and social regard. Often referred to as the 'Pavement Picasso,' Beever has produced his art on Continue Reading...
The reflections of death in Death on the Pale Horse also remind this observer to take time to consider the certainty that human life on earth is limited. In an ironic way, this painting also seems to shout that it is imperative to make a point to m Continue Reading...
This may also be an indication of the struggle within the artist. (Botticelli, Sandro: The Mystical Nativity) The works of Botticelli were to become less fashionable and popular with the development of the Renaissance. He was to die virtually unkno Continue Reading...
20th Century Genius The Genius of the 20th century, whose work and artistic contribution can be classified in both the Age of Modernism and the Age of Pluralism, is artist and social commentator Pablo Picasso. Picasso is a genius because he helped Continue Reading...
Humanities" is a branch of education that includes history, fine art, literature, and philosophy. In most universities, the "humanities" department encompasses all of these subjects, and may include capstone type courses such as "Western Traditions," Continue Reading...
C.E. With this particular piece, the artist was less concerned with anatomical description than with the problems of foreshortening in the figures and of showing them from different viewpoints. The turning and twisting of the figures indicate that th Continue Reading...
Only wealth and the existence of the complex commercial society that underpinned it was capable of bringing together this great diversity of objects and making them available for human pleasure - the pleasure of the eye as well as of the stomach. Th Continue Reading...
"The type of future I'm showing is one that makes use of structures that are there, subverting their function and turning them into something else. People were asking me, 'Are you gonna do flying saucers, hovercrafts?' But I was really intent about Continue Reading...
Kandinsky was unique, however, in his adventurous, abstract, and color-filled endeavors to radically juxtapose: color; light; landscape; music; nature, spirituality, and other essences as a way of expressing meaning within art. Vassily Kandinsky was Continue Reading...
It is not a real upbeat rhythm, otherwise the colors used would be bolder and more abstract but it is rhythm based on peaceful ritual. This along with proportion provides the painting with deepness in the frame of reference. The background also adds Continue Reading...
The overall affect the facial configuration gives the gazer is of wise man in repose of thought. But the piece is not beautiful in the conventional sense. It is realistic in its slightly unbalanced facial formulation. The emperor Marcus Aurelius is Continue Reading...
Printmaking: A Pre and Post Structuralism Article Review of the process "It is difficult to return to a pre-Enlightenment way of thinking," according to the author "The Syntax of the Print" Ruth Weisberg, whereby beauty alone was assumed to be the p Continue Reading...
The painting begged me to ask of it why intermittent shadows struck its sides, why yellow-golden light graced its innards. I guessed that it must have been nighttime that Stella tried to capture, for at night the shining lights from the city would f Continue Reading...
Rodney Graham -- who will he become next? Rodney Graham is a Canadian artist, born in Vancouver in 1949. But he could be anyone -- or so his art suggests. In Fishing on the Jetty, 2000, the Rodney Graham renders himself into his own text as a filmed Continue Reading...
artwork "Raftsmen Playing Cards" by George Caleb Bingham. Specifically, it will discuss the historical context and aesthetic effect of the piece, and answer the question, what makes this work cool? The work is an amusing and very American painting c Continue Reading...
Botticelli's Mythological Paintings The paintings done by different artists exemplify the influences that they have had throughout their life. The style and topics chosen for the artwork are two of the major elements of any painting. In Sandro Botti Continue Reading...
Analysis of Luxurious Forms: The Levant, Greece, and BeyondAccording to Feldman (2002), 13th and 14th century B.C.E. Mediterranean art is often characterized as international in nature. This means that across many different regions and geographical a Continue Reading...
Art The shift from Byzantine or Medieval art to the early Renaissance is perfectly demonstrated by examining the change in depictions of the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus, or Madonna and Child, over time. What we see is a gradual tendency toward r Continue Reading...
Da Vinci and Michaelangelo During the Renaissance, artists evolved many of the techniques which are now employed in creating works of art. There are many great artists who came out of this historical time period and while they have somewhat similar Continue Reading...
Frida Kahlo is quoted as saying, "I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down. The other accident is Diego," (cited by Botis 1). The love relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is one of the most fam Continue Reading...
Life as a graphic designer vs. An illustrator 'What can you do with an art degree?' This is a common question asked of students who major in studio art or who get an MFA (Masters of Fine Arts). However, there are many professions which allow artist Continue Reading...
Painting Interpretation Saint Catherine of Alexandria Saint Catherine of Alexandria was a favorite subject of art during the late Renaissance. The painting of Saint Catherine to which this analysis will refer is held by the Metropolitan Museum of A Continue Reading...
Paintings Both Salvador Dali and Raphael incorporated Christian imagery into their paintings. Raphael renders a scene from the life of Christ in "Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints." The painting is rendered on wood, with oil and gold leaf. It Continue Reading...
By pointing straight up, it is emulating the church steeple, pointing perhaps to God, and Creator that has brought the stars and the moon and the clouds and the land to the people so they could build a village. In the village the lights are on in ma Continue Reading...
Applying a Reading on a Piece of Art Response: The Night Cafe, Vincent Van Gough "Two influences work on us, an outer one and one from within us" (Bahr 117). This idea that Expressionism in art is a depiction of the artist's inner reality as much a Continue Reading...
Reality Is Relative Upon viewing the Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern by Robert Howlett it became apparent that Realism and Post Impressionism can become blurred and are not Continue Reading...
Pablo Picasso: Guernica "Guernica": How it Is Meant to Be Seen" "Guernica": How it Is Meant to Be Seen" Picasso's influences and culture, and artistic movements Before discussing Picasso's Guernica and, we must first understand the historical and Continue Reading...
Moore's figure has no discernable facial features as the Chac Mool does. The effect of Moore's drapery is different from the stiffer clothes worn by the Chac Mool. Moore's figure seems more fluid and therefore more relaxed than the stiffer, more st Continue Reading...
