Observing “Abiel McIntosh, After Pontrmo” brings about mixed feeling I have towards this artwork. “Abiel McIntosh, After Pontrmo” was made in 2010 by Kehinde Wiley with oil on canvas and this piece follows a series of similar style artworks by Wiley which he asks young black men to model, and then shows the men a range of classical paintings from which they pick their preferred pose. Just like “Abiel McIntosh, After Pontrmo,” the other pieces are closely related in structure and style. For “Abiel MccIntosh” the use of a floral background and having the models blend in seamless into the background with elaborate clothing and a glaring stare by the model gives the sense of empowerment.…
Jenée Desmond-Harris utilized brand names to create a image in the readers minds and a photo to further clarify that image. Adding in specific brand names helps readers obtain an idea or visualisation of the era in which the girls lived in. Wardrobe and style expresses a person’s personality as well as the popular style of other people amongst their generation. Desmond- Harris’s use of modifiers specifies the description in fewer words.…
Significant personal events in one’s life can act to influence an individual’s artmaking practice. This is evident through Frida Kahlo’s artwork ‘The Broken Column’ 1944, Jenny Sages ‘After Jack’ 2012 and Christian Thompson ‘King Billy’ 2010. Frida Kahlo, is the first example of such an individual as she experienced a horrible accident causing permanent damage to her spine. As a result of the accident, Kahlo became influenced to paint through using her emotion as a driving force to paint where Kahlo states “I am broken, but I am happy as long as I can paint”. This is depicted in Kahlo’s artwork ‘The Broken Column’ in plate 4 which depicts a figure namely Kahlo herself being pricked by nails with the presence of a broken pillar.…
Many of his portraits shine with a vibrancy within the paint, giving this impression of life and the essence captured within the portrait itself. Indeed, it can almost be believed that the person themselves is living within this portrait. The effect of this is not lost on the viewer, as it captures their attention and makes the viewer stop to examine the…
I am also going to address how Cabrera showcased a European style through his use of shading, and how his technique of displaying perspective differs from European Baroque equivalents. The main figure in this painting is seated in an elaborate Baroque chair lined with velvet and topped with a shell motif. The figure possesses enough wealth to…
Richard Estes’s technique use of perspective to create disorder and chaos rather than order in his paintings. Renaissance artists used perspective to apply orderliness, Richard Estes did the same thing in his paintings with a camera. When Richard Estes created a painting here’s what he did, “ To create a painting, Estes photographs a scene, then develops a composition based on the photos” ( Scholastic Art: Perspective pg. 10). Another way he used perspective is by one-point perspective like in his painting “Subway”, “Estes depicts the inside of a subway car using one-point perspective” ( Scholastic Art Perspective page 10).…
I believe Riley is a nerd because he does home work instead of hanging with friends, he goes to finance club and, he is ugly. First why Riley is a nerd is because he does home work instead of hanging with friends. When you decide to ditch your friends to do homework you are not only being a huge nerd but letting your friends down. Which in the future can make you lose your friends.…
In some courses in which, maker Alexa Meade could be an old figure painter, duplicating the daylight and shadow that falls on the form during an authentic strategy. Be that as it may she takes a shot at relate degree unprecedented canvas: the specific shape. besides, he or she takes a set up manufacture — trompe l'oeil, the claim to fame of making a two-dimensional portrayal look three-dimensional — and turns it on its head.. Her point is to do to the inverse, to fall profundity and make her living models into level film.(Meade, In Reverse Trompe L’Oeil, Models Are Both Subject and Painting Surface, 2011 )(1) Meade's creative way to deal with antiquated picture originates from her enthusiasm for changing the individual before of her.…
This poem by Ms. Kincaid was published for the first time in a 1978 issue of The New Yorker. It is a very short story that does not take much to read. In reality, it just takes a few minutes to get through it, but you will be amazed by the richness of contents that Ms. Kinkaid included with it. It is an intriguing 650 words, one sentence dialogue, written in a list form, a to-do-list form, where the mother tells her daughter what to do and not to do according with the society rules at the time and the customs and traditions of the region where they lived.…
To attract and keep the attention of the audience in a genre as stale and traditional as still life painting can be a difficult task, but many painters have risen to the challenge in the hundreds of years since its invention. These methods are numerous and involve the exploration of tensions such as those that exist between abstraction and representation, or moralizing versus hedonistic. Considered one of the lowest types of art by the French Academy, Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, Shoes, and Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill are three still paintings that have managed to rise above the typical wave that have been produced by artists of varying skills for centuries. Though looking at each alone does not truly illuminate the reasoning…
There seems to be nothing more unnerving than carrying feelings of undesirability, isolation, struggle, and desolation. As early as the 1600’s African Americans have had to fight for their voices to be heard, for the definition of equality to be understood, and for the barrier between the oppressed and the oppressor to be shattered once and for all. Despite the plethora of adversities that African American people had to face during previous years, a motif was apparent, not giving up. In the words of Frederick Douglas, “whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire to be free, and set me thinking of plans to gain my freedom.” Douglas, like many influential African Americans at the time,…
The Painting on Ivory depicts King Khosrow and Queen Shirin in the Garden Court and was constructed by Persian Rovhani during the 20th century. The lively scene makes its presence known in that it is vivid in its use of color yet uniform all the same, the text is included around the images rather than the other way around, and the individual events are separated into discrete horizontal sections yet are woven together seamlessly into the fabric of the scene. In addition, the narrative of the scene downplays the trials and tribulations of the courtship, perhaps because Nizami chose to focus on and highlight the romantic aspect of the tale. At first glance, one notices the conspicuous woman towards the top of the image, who is clad in blood…
Jesse Treece is an artist that creates various photomontage collages into unique compositions. He does this by incorporating distinct photographic scenes into one. “Long Walks On The Beach” is one good example in which he created a collage of two separate scenes in one picture. In this art work, the image portrays two people walking on the beach, but the sky appears to be an image of a planet. “Discoface” is another interesting collage of his because he created the composition out of three or four different pieces.…
In Judith Leyster’s Self-Portrait, Leyster is the focal point of the portrait, but she also draws emphasis to the painting on the easel of a male violinist. The viewer’s point of view is originally directed to Leyster’s gaze and the welcoming smile on her face, which then eventually shifts towards the painting on the easel that she is in the process of completing. Leyster’s intent with the portrait was to express her diverse artistic talents and make them apparent to the viewer. This is evident through the differentiation in painting techniques used by Leyster on the portrait of herself and of the painting featured on the easel. The painting of the male violinist was conducted in loose brush strokes in comparison to her self-portrait.…
Some Basic and Key Rules, Issues and Virtues of Ramadan Kareem As I already described about Fasting and about the month of Ramadan in my previous published article “Fasting (Roza). The 3rd Pillar of Islam”, now I am going to share some basic rules, issues and virtues of Ramadan Kareem in this article. Fast (Roza) will be broken from the following acts/things, and in result Qaza and the Penalty (Kaffarah) will become Obligatory: Intentionally eat or drink something. Make sexual relation naturally or unnaturally.…