The painting that I choose to observe was painted by Charles t. Bowling (American, 1891 - 1985). Title of painting is Mason County Landscape, it was painted 1938. The reason behind why I choose this specific work of artwork was because this painting caught my attention as soon as I laid eyes on it. I knew that this painting has some kid of historical account, and as just by looking at it I knew it was telling a story in history. Interesting historical facts from this painting is this was painted
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The image that chose looked like it two different animals. The author of this sculpture is Leza McVey also known as Sullivan. She was born in 1907. In her artwork, you can see that she started her piece with a pinch pot. She also looked like she slip and score then added the legs. This paper will explain the sensory qualities, formal qualities, expressive qualities, and technical qualities. The sensory qualities of the piece of these two images are that a rounded piece of clay with added details
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For my formal analysis assignment I decided to go to The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth. Although there were many works of art that caught my attention, the one that seemed to fascinate me the most was Dan Flavin’s light sculpture, Untitled (for you Leo, in long respect and affection) 4, 1978. In the following essay I will elaborate more upon the elements utilized by the artist to create this piece of art. Falvin’s use of lines, light, and color are all essential elements to this particular sculpture
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A formal analysis of an artwork is taking the artwork at its face value. It is not taking any outside information to make an analysis of a piece of artwork. Using outside information to gain more knowledge an understanding of the artwork is called contextual analysis. In Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, a formal analysis will include color and repetition of this work. A contextual analysis will also be given. The color that dominates Bosch’s work is green, a secondary color. The other
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For my art excursion, I visited Opus 40 in Saugerties New York. The exhibition is a large outdoor sculpture park. The sculpture park was created by Henry Fite who purchased the lot of land that is now Opus 40 in 1938. At that time the lot of land was an abandon sandstone quarry. Fite, an art professor at Bard college, set out to dedicate the next 40 years of his life to building a massive sculpture from the quarry. The stones in the sculpture were each hand laid by Fite himself. He used methods derived
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Art Analysis Paper The Joan Brown’s “Noel In The Kitchen” is a painting. The medium of this art work is oil on canvas. The technique she used appears to be heavy brush strokes. The size of the painting is very large, approximately 8x5 Ft. It is a representational work, which displays a small child, two dogs and some regular attributes of a household kitchen. The image can be broken down into the few blocks. On the front, there is a little child, assumingly named Noel, reaching the top of the kitchen
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the painting of the last supper by Leonardo Da Vinci is considered one of the world’s greatest paintings. it was considered famous because of the special technique that was used to create it. In this painting of “the last supper” Leonardo Da vinci prefered not to use traditional water colors, instead he used oil paint on dry plaster. The last supper was painted in the 15th century, and it’s an example of the artists innovative spirit. The painting depicts Jesus sharing his last meal with his disciples
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I have seen many paintings in my life, perhaps the most famous one was mona lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci which I have been seeing in cartoons and movies since my childhood, but that painting was very common so I decided to try something different for my visual essay. I was specifically interested in noir theme, and especially the era of 1930’s and 40’s when the Italian mafia had a major hold on New York being the most notorious criminals during the period. The most interesting feature of the noir theme
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calendars everyday. 9. The CEO received a subscription to his favorite magazine; it arrived in the mail within two weeks. 10. The jury members deliberated for over two months, the judge has asked to meet with them today. 11. The new oil painting is very colorful it will look good with our bright furnishings. 12. The weather forecaster asked everyone to remain indoors, a storm was heading our
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sense also of the color of sound as I get these feelings out of music. In this painting the shapes in the painting are clearly delineated in a way that became a signature with applied oils thinly so that each shape would not blare out but work in harmony with the others. The artwork seems to have no fear combine as an example of what he may have meant to be intuitive abstractions, his own cosmic cubism. The painting is a marvel and it is surprising that Hartley did not pursue its themes even more
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