Western painting

rocking chair on the left corner of the painting. Both her elbows are resting on the arms of the chair and her head is tilted forward and lightly bowed conveying a certain loss. She is wearing a long conservative navy blue dress. The woman is sitting in a very simple room that contains few furniture pieces. There is a brown table covered with an elegant blue tablecloth as well as a tall white vase with potted grass and pink flowers to the left of the painting. Moreover, behind the woman, there…

Abstract art is also known as non objective art or non representational art, painting, sculpture or graphic art in which the portrayal of things from the visible world plays no part. Abstraction was one of the mostsignificant developments in the story of 20th century arts. It consists largely of elements like form, color, line, tone and texture. It has its origin in 19th century. The period characterized by so vast a body of elaborately representational art produced for the sake of illustrating…

teaching years he practiced his painting, which consisted of mainly landscapes (2). Mondrian was influenced by the rise of Cubism and that is when he really started to produce all of his paintings using a grid-like format, painting squares and rectangles of mostly solid colors (1).Mondrian has…

societies. He was said to have a balanced, self-controlled, and poised personality. He was reserved, but full of compassion, had a sense of humor, and an avid listener. Through good and difficult times he continually improved and altered his style and painting process, and turned the art world upside down. We will see the highlights of his life, his loves, his passions, and most importantly…

wall [looking at paintings], reading the names… [and] then goes away neither richer nor poorer than when they came, [simply there to] admire the quality of painting as one enjoys a pasty.” For those museumgoers who attend exhibitions simply to seem sophisticated to their social cohorts, this unfortunate occurrence is certainly the norm, and even those who go to a museum for spiritual enjoyment can end up focusing more on the nameplate besides a painting than on the actual painting itself. Armed…

Introduction The leadership style of Quint Studer reminds me of a bulb, not because the Studer Group and Foundation carries his name has a bulb in the logo, on the contrary, it encourages to “be the bulb.” As described by Cokeley in (2012) an electric current flowed through a filament of carbonized thread and brought the world into light on New Year’s Eve 1879. It was Edison’s vision, and willingness to share that created dynamic change. Both Edison and Studer are exemplar they set raised bar,…

out from what was considered normal at the time, and focus on herself and what she wanted out of her short life. She quickly rose to fame with her paintings because she had the extraordinary ability to capture not only the beauty and rich culture of Mexico, but also the pain of reality. The combination of bright, bold colors and dark realism in her painting quickly set her apart not just as a female artist,…

You’ve probably seen some of these paintings before. They’re detailed, realistic and idealized portrayals of the American wilderness that are not only an excellent look into 1850s America but a useful tool for interpreting contemporary culture. The Hudson River school is an art movement that emerged in the mid 19th century. It is named for its origin in the Hudson River Valley area of New York but it quickly built a presence across all of New England. The location of the movement is central to…

Illusion trick to them like the ceiling painting by Andrea Mantegna called “Detail of central oculus” witch is a fresco. That ceiling painting was made to look like there was more to the top of the building then there was. The illusion of the blue sky shown in the picture is called to be an oculus. As well as the rails around the picture, and the little chubby babies hanging around the top of the rails are part the illusion created in the painting. Another painting in the chapter that completely…

Lidia Ticheeva and father Vasily Kandinsky on December 16, 1866 in Moscow, Russia and at the age of five him and his family moved to Odessa. Kandinsky was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. He is best known for his abstract paintings and was part of the expressionism and abstract art movement in his lifetime. Kandinsky did not, however, just create art. As a young boy, he learned to play the cello and piano, and also wrote poetry. In school, Wassily did not just study art;…