...exhibition was well organized; the paintings were arranged in a meticulous order that evokes interest in each piece as you move from one painting to the other. The works of art were of an abstract nature mostly depicting the essence of microscopic life that exists in nature and what seems like the representation of the developmental stages of sprouting life form. In some of her painting you could see the obvious depiction of nature with landscapes and trees. The artist was able to capture this transformation of nature with the simple strokes of vertical lines and colored pencils on mostly plain white sheets of paper. I believe the goal of the artist was for each viewer to have a connection to the paintings ("Suzan Cofer: Draw Near," 2012). The exhibition consisted of over one hundreds pieces of work from the timeline of the dated from 1976 to present. This era was a difficult time for artists. It was the time of the great depression which resulted in the war of the times (Heilbrunn Timeline, n.d.). Artist wanted a find a way to express their emotions and feeling in an unrecognizable form. This gave birth to abstract painting which derived from the abstract expressionist movement. This movement allowed artists to express their feelings through an art form that illuminated the obvious (Boddy-Evans, 2012). The Art work created a sense of pleasure as one engages in its participation. The group of people at the exhibition was intensely drawn in to the painting. “Beauty is in the eyes of...
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...Henri Matisse One of the most important French painters of the 20th century. The leader of the Fauvist’s movement around 1900. Matisse's artistic career was long and varied, covering many different styles of painting from Impressionism to near Abstraction Painted in 1917 it an oil painting Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint. Oil paint is usually mixed with linseed oil, artist grade mineral spirits or other solvents to create a thinner, faster or slower drying paint. A basic rule of oil paint application is 'fat over lean. This means that each additional layer of paint should contain more oil than the layer below to allow proper drying. If each additional layer contains less oil, the final painting will crack and peel. The painting is 96 3/8 x 79 in. (244.7 x 200.7 cm). It is currently on display courtesy of the Barnes Foundation at Lincoln University in Merion, Pennsylvania. Some Observations The use of lines shapes and color are soft. The focal areas are the piano and the pianists were what caught my attention first Atmospheric Asymmetrical Some repetition cool colors The sense of movement could be both or combines due to the person sitting outside The Artwork is juxtapose Frida Kahlo She was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City. When she was six years old she contracted polio which left her with a deformed right foot and the cruel nickname...
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...Compare and Contrast Essay about Miracle of Christ Healing the Blind by EL Greco and Denial of St. Peter by Caravaggio. Miracle of Christ Healing the Blind by El Greco and Denial of St. Peter by Caravaggio are both oil paintings depicting biblical events from the New Testament. The expressive components of both compositions reflect two different artistic styles conveying profound religious and spiritual content. El Greco’s painting encompasses the hallmarks of High Renaissance masters such as solidly rendered figures, dazzling colors, deep spatial recession and Roman architecture. Caravaggio’s dramatic use of light and shadow and meticulous attention to poses and gestures of his subjects are emblematic of the naturalistic realism of the Baroque period. The elaborate architectural setting of El Greco’s canvas with its deep linear perspective is filled with groupings of figures in the foreground. The figures, although realistically depicted and covered with body conforming drapery, appear elongated. Their gestures, facial expressions and twisted postures create a sense of movement, commotion, and reverence evoked by the mystical event of healing the blindness. The group of people on the right directs the gaze of the viewer to the figure of the blind man being healed by Jesus, and then it goes to the man on the left, turned backwards, with his finger pointing up. Just as the act of healing the blindness carries a symbolic meaning of the revelation of faith his gesture might...
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...a form of entertainment that could be viewed by all, no vulgarity • Movies: five cents o Films mixed with live acts, broadened nighttime environment (attended by unescorted women, creating unsupervised encounters b/w men and women) • Started consumer culture- break down Victorian gender • Mixed audience represented experience of urban life (black/white, men/women) Exciting, instability, city new visual experience • Lone Tenement (George Bellows) o Wanted to facec the ugly in city as well as beautiful o Worked against Whistler (avoided aesheticism) • Rawness of city, depicted vaudeville (which is like mixture of acts such as burlesque, comedians, music, etc) o Liked to show economic conditions of urban poor • Ash Can painting style: thick and messy, meant to look like it was applied slap-dash manner, jittery o Ash can artists started as illustrationalists o Borrowed from manet but were more interested in giving subjects agency • Called insufficiently modern • Whistler’s work is about distancing us, Bellows is about confronting the difficult world, the real world, gritty grimy The Stieglitz Circle & Transatlantic Modernism General: Cubism, Italian Futurists, Fauvism,...
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...showed this painting had two modern art movements, the Cubism and Futurism. Cubism: The Cubism period focused a lot of multiple viewpoints. Mapped the motion and energy of the body as it passed through space making the picture look unrealistic. Futurism: The Futurist period, was a period fascinated with speed. Artists created an illusion as if the painting were moving. This painting raised eyebrows in France and brought a scandal in New York when the painting was display, the mechanistic approach to the female body was perceived as a crude. Viewers found Michelangelo’s David painting as if he was mocking the audience because They could not find a woman in the painting. People didn’t care very much for his painting, people were offended by the nudity. The public felt that Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending art didn’t appreciate art, the people felt that he was disrespectful, his work showed flat forms that overlapped in shallow space. Duchamp wanted to combine two different styles modern art. The Knowledge of the artist inspiration does enhance my appreciation of the painting because after looking at it and being able to understand the lines the color the shapes. After looking at it you can see there is an overlapped over and over and you can see figures but I could also understand how people would get frustrated in not being able to see an image of a woman in the painting. References: ...
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...MATISSE AND PICASSO The article on Matisse and Picasso’s story of contradiction that later on developed into friendship shows us that art unites everyone. Artists may have different styles, techniques and opinions but these abstractionists found what is dominantly common among their works. They may not have liked each other’s works at first but gradually, they have learned to work with each other. This agreement signaled the birth of another art movement, abstraction. Their works are highly geometric and the colors are vibrant; much like what we see in modern art. The idea of abstraction is pure self- expression, contrary to the traditional realistic painting. Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso are two of the greatest abstractionists known in history. They have proven that “ugly art” may still be considered beautiful in the eyes of the viewer. Without their intertwining ideas, mankind may have not developed a fresher sense of Art. The things we see around today may be the old school Renaissance or Victorian themed artworks with the sober colors and all. Matisse and Picasso’s collaboration have reinvented art itself. Using geometric figures, they have proven that there are no strict rules in art. Like everything else, it undergoes changes. It can be modified overtime. After all, art is all about being you. This somewhat rebellious art style is extraordinary. It may not directly portray the story of Picasso and Matisse’s friendship but through in-depth research, one can conclude...
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...style of the Greeks. This style was created to show a classic style based off of the Roman and Greek background. In this painting the part that is most eye catching is the way the chair is portrayed. There are sharp edges and it lacks pastel colors. Even though it is obvious that Napoleon is in the painting your eye goes straight to the striking depiction of the chair first. In the second painting The Luncheon of the Boating Party, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir there is the style of impressionism. Being the artist that developed this style of art Renoir focused on the personal and honest of his subjects. Renoir’s paintings contain vibrant colors and light and airy brush strokes that come together beautifully. The Luncheon of the Boating Party in its entirety appears to be a very busy painting. When a closer look is take you notice that the activities are detailed and add a sense of lively hood to the painting. This painting shows how Renoir saw his world at the time and that he was a very detail orientated artist. The clothing styles, activities occurring, and food being consumed was drawn in such a way that it felt as if you were there experiencing the scene yourself. Lastly Jackson Pollock’s painting Autumn Rhythm is a perfect example of abstract impressionists. Pollock has a different approach when creating his work; He liked to be “inside” his paintings and would lay his canvas on the floor so that he could work from all four side. Pollock used a technique that not many...
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...Roman art, still life paintings gave the artists choices in the arrangements and design within a composition then paintings of a landscape or a portrait. Still life paintings before the 17th century mostly contained religious symbolism relating to the objects painted. Some modern still life breaks the 2 dimensional barriers which employ 3 dimensional mixed objects such as photography, computer graphics and video and sound. Various artists include the Dutch in the 17th Century, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Ricky Swallow and Sam Taylor Wood. The Dutch Golden Age The Dutch golden age of painting is a period Dutch history spanning the 17th century. During and after part of 80 years of war (1568-1648). This was the most prosperous nation in Europe and they led European trade, science and art. Dutch painting of the golden age known as the baroque painting, which often shows its characteristics but lacks the idealisation of love and splender which being typical of baroque work. Neighbouring flanders work for the period often reflects traditions of realism from Netherland-ish panting. Distinctive features for this period are genres of paintings with most artists producing the bulk of their work during the golden age. These themes and categories included, - biblical themes -mythological and historical themes -landscapes/winter landscapes -still lives and vanities paintings -portraits of the rich economic/political aleat -portraits of the city guards - marine paintings. 17th Century Dutch...
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...Paper Assignment I Throughout Europe, the Renaissance period had various effects on art which can be broken down and seen from Southern (Italian) and Northern paintings. With the renaissance, came disinterest in dogma, and more of a focus on naturalism and humanism. However, the strong influence of religion never left either the Northern or Southern art works, due to the commission by the church. Giuliano Bugiardini’s, Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, 1510, is a pristine depiction of what Southern European art during the renaissance contained, element by element. Northern artists kept most their roots, focusing heavily on religion while enhancing on the details and adding few aspects of naturalism; while Southern artists took more of a maniera greca and humanistic type approach, where religion and abstraction was in a conflicting battle with what was reality. The color, light, and shadow of Bugiardini’s, Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, emits a naturalistic feel that is seen throughout the whole painting. The painting’s main colors of brown and green are abundantly found in nature, usually representing trees, grass, dirt, etc. Mary’s red and blue gown contrasts with the rest of the scenery, making her stand out while emitting a calm (blue) but emotional (red) tone. The colors in the painting also seem to tell a story with a dull, dark brown in most of the foreground, and more vivid greens in the background. This could represent current dark times, followed...
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...Nancy Moreno Professor McCracken Spanish 120B December 3, 2009 Through the eyes of tradition People express themselves in many different ways throughout their lives. Painters are known for using there past experiences to illustrate their lives and feelings. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter with a passion to paint. Her paintings portrayed very strong messages throughout her life including the tragic events that helped her shape who she was. In Julie Taymor’s film “Frida”: her private and professional life was depicted through different events. In this film as well as in people’s daily lives ethnicity is a factor, which, influences the actions and practices that construct your character. As Taymor opens the film with a scene of Frida laying on her bed to get to her exhibition, she shows how she never gave up on her commitment to what she started. As a result to a horrific accident that enables Frida from time to time in her life she starts painting portraits of her family and herself. Taymor shows the role of supra-ethnicity through the character of Kahlo using her lifestyle, clothing, and traditions. Taymor draws the viewers into this post-revolutionary era in Mexico by constructing Frida’s style of living in a different time. Through her life Frida dresses and acts out the role that the indigenous women in Mexico live by, but includes her own style to it. By using the traditional clothing of an indigenous woman she shows the beauty and empowerment that the...
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...that art could represent an artists’ mood or surroundings. Throughout the chapter it explains that many paintings of streets, architecture, and ordinary people emerged around the 1900s. This new art form known as realism portrayed the everyday life of people in poverty and in urban America. This time was known as the beginning of the truth. Realism was much different from the European paintings. Realism focused on the life on the streets in America. Many American’s were disgruntled about the fact painters would paint images of society suffering and in misery. This misunderstanding lead to the hardships painters faced while contributing to art galleries and shows. Realism paintings were too much for some gallery owners and they banned the art from the gallery. Robert Henri and the eight changed this a few years later. Robert understood that society wasn’t accepting this new generation of paintings, so he opened a school for painters freely to their work. Once the school was open painters began freely painting and eventually contributed to the realism movement. Robert eventually took eight men under his wing and mentored them. Chapter 30 took realism to another realm. It focused on the fact of color and brushwork. Artists began to use color to express certain mood or meaning within their paintings. For example American Gothic, by Grant Wood. He demonstrated realism by painting a picture of his sister and dentist on a farm. In the picture the black and white clothing demonstrated...
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...DC area Siva and consort Uma SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM-Arthur M. Sackler and Freer Gallery of Art – SOUTH ASIAN AND HIMALAYAN ART Both the Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery are located on the National Mall between the Capitol and Washington Monument. The hours of operation are 10.00 am to 5.30 pm except on December 25 and admission is free.Charles Lang Freer, the founder of the Freer Gallery of art expressed his enthusiasm by “I am over my head in love with India” after his first visit to the subcontinent. As I casually browsed the Freer Gallery, the beautifully decorated image of Buddha caught my attention. Also, on display were other masterpieces of Mughal and Rajput paintings along with richly decorated court arts and daggers used by Mughal emperors. I can clearly relate to this period of history because I am of Indian descent and also practice Hindu religion. I am well aware of this particular aspect of art and culture that we have covered during this course. During The Chola dynasty, the Hindu god known as Siva Nataraja (Lord of the Dance) was the perfect embodiment of Chola beauty. The Chola dynasty was one of the most dominant artistic, religious and political forces in south India from the ninth through the thirteenth century. Siva Nataraj was portrayed as the family diety because he was always seen with his consort Uma and their elephant headed son Ganesha, often referred to as the remover of all obstacles. According to the Hindu scriptures, Siva beheaded his newborn...
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...Marcel Duchamp’s painting the Nude Descending a Staircase, and Michelangelo’s David were pieces of art that were met with heavy criticism in different ways. Duchamp, more so for his painting was deemed unrealistic and when initially viewed the audience found it insulting. Michelangelo’s statue David on the other hand received criticism due to political views and societal views about nudity. The objections seen and posed by audiences in the Duchamp painting was in that it didn’t make sense, there wasn’t a natural flow to the piece. People were used to seeing images reflective of life that were easy to understand and this was not the case. The painting was quite abstract and challenging for people to understand. Duchamp I believe took an innovative approach towards his piece because he wanted to challenge his audience in making them think outside the box. The painting clearly shows he was interested in the human body by painting it in abstract form rather than in true form, the body in motion is visually deceptive. Another reason for his approach was his interest in the works of photographic art; in fact, Nude Descending a Staircase is reflective of artist such as Eadweard Muybridge, Woman Walking Downstairs,(www.newyorktimes.com). Michelangelo’s David an iconic ode to the human body was created in 1504, (www.newyorktimes.com), and the figure representative of strength before a battle is larger than life. The religious connotation of the piece is part of Christianity and...
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...Henry Ford Hospital Frida Kahlo The “Henry Ford Hospital” (The Flying Bed) completed in 1932, created by the artist Frida Kahlo was her first painting on tin. The painting contains all components of “Frida Style” ex-voto (retablo); which is small in size, painted on tin, portrays a tragic event and an inscription. The style used for this painting is Surrealism. This work is made by Oil on Metal. The dimensions of the work are 12 ¼” x 15 ½” In a shape of a Rectangle. Frida used rich colors to express strong feelings. This artwork was made during the Modern Art period. Frida Kahlo was the creator of the “Henry Ford Hospital” (The Flying Bed) 1932 painting. This is one of her most painful self-portraits that she had ever painted. Frida created this artwork of herself during one of her most painful times in her life. She was suffering her second miscarriage, and she was also was also realizing that she would not ever be able to carry a pregnancy to term. She experienced this situation in a foreign city that she did not like, the city of Detroit, Michigan. They were in the city of Detroit because her husband Diego was creating his famous Detroit Industry frescoes (frescoes, is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster) at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In the background of the painting Frida included the Ford family’s factories because they dominated the skyline from the hospitals view. In Henry Ford Hospital Frida lies naked in her bed. Frida has...
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...the aesthetic was warped to fit their embellished emotionalism of preconceived ideas. Thus the realists focused on depicting scenes with authenticity. Many images of the workhouse arouse due to the Industrial revolution at the time. Realism began in France in the 1850s and flourished when photography was born. Edouard Manet was a character full of antithesis. On one hand he was a rebellious socialist yet he was also a dignified bourgeois. During his lifetime he became famous for breaking away from the traditional academic way of painting and was once hailed “the first modern painter” (A World History of Art, Hugh Honour & John Fleming pg 677) Yet he was heavily influenced by the masters of the past and their inspiration can clearly be seen “Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe” (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/manet/dejeuner/manet.dejeuner-sur-herbe.jpg) Manet wanted to make a statement with this peice of work, even more so than his controversial painting Olympia. But He was also desperate to be accepted by the Parisian salon because it was uneasy to artistically survive without that sort of status. However his wishes were denied, instead a small scale exhibition for the refused artists was held in an annex, that later became known as the Salon des Refusés. Both the critics and the public were outraged by this peice. Unlike the previous nudes of the romanticism painters, this woman was not a goddess or a nymph but most likely a prostitute. It is not only the females lack of clothes...
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