Oil painting

In this essay I will compare two portrait paintings of Nicolaes Tulp who was a Dutch Surgeon and Dr. Samuel D. Gross who was an Academic Surgeon and a professor at a medical school. The first painting is “The Anatomy Lesson,” which was painted in 1632 by Rembrandt. The second painting is “The Gross Clinic which was painted in 1875 by Thomas C. Eakins. Both paintings are oil on canvas that depicts the doctor’s experiences with teaching the anatomy of the human body to other surgeons in training.…

paper, I will primarily be focusing on Cuzco paintings that revolve around depictions of the Holy Family, because Cuzco is an extremely broad form of art. Let’s begin with the basics, “Cuzco school is a group of European and indigenous painters that where from Cuzco, Peru”(Cuzco School). Cuzco school art works was made between,…

in inner Sydney. Peter Booth born 2 November 1940, Sheffield, United Kingdom, comparing art piece called ‘painting’ made in 1977, he was inspired by his life, Booth is influenced by the world around him, he turns what he has experienced and seen into art, beautiful art. Jeffery smart’s art work has warm colours, it shows a Morden landscape of Sydney’s inner motorway. It is a quite painting you don’t see much but a road, building and a person in a blue suit just standing under a lamp post, this…

Saint Cecilia by Bernard Strozzi is the subject of this visual analysis. It is an oil on canvas portrait that highlights a youthful woman. It was painted circa 1620 to 1625. Making it a part of the Baroque period of art. Which had characteristics of heavy symbolism, deep and rich colors, and an attention to detail. The painting Saint Cecilia contains lighter shades than what is normal for the baroque period. Instead of rich and deep colors they are light a delicate. Though there is heaviness…

era of art. In the oil on canvas painting Peasants in the Fields, Eragny it is shown that Pissarro is a revolutionary painter in the styles and techniques he uses. This one in particularly is done in a pointillism style of painting. This painting was also done in his late career when he started branching off into new directions and broadening his fields of style and techniques. He was a master painter that would draw from real life and always do landscapes and street side painting of what was…

In the 19th Century American Art section of the Dallas Museum of Art is a large oil painting on canvas that grasps the attention of the entire room. American painter, Fredric Edwin Church, created “The Icebergs” in 1861. The glowing painting is exceptionally large, measuring in at 85 x 133 x 5 inches framed. The painting itself is 64 ½ x 112 ½ inches. “The Icebergs” is a landscape painting, which depicts multiple icebergs floating in the ocean under a beautiful, slightly cloudy sky. One iceberg…

The Persistence of Memory (1931) was made in 1931 by Salvador Dali, the artwork is 24 x 33 cm, oil on canvas painting, and now the artwork is in The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The style of the artwork is surrealistic. The subject matter is a barren landscape with melting clocks draped over unrelated objects, caricature of Dali’s face on the ground, plus a rocky headland with the sea in the background. The focal point of the artwork is the strange caricature of Dali’s profile, complete with…

the time in history in which these paintings are based is when the previously divided Germany had just collapsed as a result of the Eastern German Government giving way and opening the Berlin Wall. This specifically happened in November of 1989, which is one of the canvas' titles. Although this was a positive event in German history, the purpose of Richter's paintings was to reveal a much deeper emotional and political uncertainty from these changes. The paintings aim to represent the past, the…

The Pastoral Concert is an oil painting, which was painted either by Giorgione or his pupil Titian. Modern critics are back and forth on the subject, but the most widely accepted theory is that the master Giorgione began the painting, and after his death, his pupil Titian completed the work. The painting portrays two nude women, one standing and pouring a pitcher of water, and the other lounging on the grass, paused attentively with a flute in her hand. The women appear robust by today’s…

standpoint of a poor, poverty ridden peasant that does not have as much as others. Even though they are poor, they all look extremely happy with what they have. The original painting is done with oil paint on a wooden panel, which became popular about one hundred sixty years earlier. The artist worked very hard to make this painting look like a feast, even though you can tell upon closer inspection that there is a great deal of poor foods such as plain cakes and milk. The artist's subject…