Tastefully developed and carefully curated, The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University now holds one of the largest collections of Spanish art outside of Spain. The museum prides itself on displaying widely diversified paintings, a statement I do not fully agree with. Although the two-story museum’s walls are furnished with with a wide variety of subject content there is a chauvinistic sense about their collections. I am not saying there is an unequal ratio of male to female portraits because there isn’t. The museum has a plethora of women as subjects, but they only seem to only display women painted by men.…
Leonardo da Vince was born April 15 1452 in Vinci Italy .Leonardo da Vinci was well known for painting sculpting and science music and mathematics. Leonardo da Vinci died may 2 1519 in ambiose, France. Leonardo da Vince parents were piero fruosino di antonio da vince and caterina da vince. Leonardo da Vinci was a very good man his art paintings showered the world with glory he was a great painter.…
This piece of artwork consists of bold colors…
Benozzo Gozzoli was an influential Italian painter in the Renaissance. He helped impact art as we know it today in many ways. Some of his most acclaimed pieces included Madonna and Child Giving Blessings, Adoration of the Magi, and Women at the Tomb. His style of artwork was fresco which is a painting done expeditiously on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling with watercolor. Gozzoli was born around the year 1421 in a village in Italy called Sant’llaria a Colombano.…
José Clemente Orozco was born in Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico on Nov. 23, 1883, he was a Mexican painter. He specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance. He was the most complex of the Mexican muralists. Orozco was influenced by symbolism, he was a genre painter and lithographer. He painted murals in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and states in the United States.…
Pablo Picasso is probably the most important figure of 20th century, in terms of art, and art movements that occurred over this period. Before the age of 50, the Spanish born artist had become the most well known name in modern art, with the most distinct style and eye for artistic creation. There had been no other artists, prior to Picasso, who had such an impact on the art world, or had a mass following of fans and critics alike, as he did. Although his art career spanned over a 7 decade period, Pablo Picasso is most known for his introduction of cubism, and modern approach to painting, which set forth the movements to follow in to the twentieth century.…
Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist known for creating bloated, oversized depictions of people, animals and elements of the natural world. Born in Colombia in 1932, Fernando Botero left school to become an artist, displaying his work for the first time in a 1948. His subsequent art, now exhibited in major cities worldwide, concentrates on situational portraiture united by his subjects' proportional exaggeration. I could argue that Fernando Botero is our most renowned artist. This, of course, depends on your definition of artist.…
The history of Latin American art is far reaching from the period before colonization up to the present time. As there is only limited space at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, this exhibition will only cover a portion of Latin American art history in one gallery. The theme of this exhibition will focus on Academic History painting from the nineteenth century with the title "Contradicting Political Messages from the Academies. " The exhibition will cover the countries of Mexico, Brazil, and Cuba, and address key historical subjects for each area that were popularized through the academies. In this essay, I am going to provide the layout of the exhibition, along with information about each specific piece that I would like to feature in this…
Film Summary The film was very influential, defining art history that I didn’t have intellect about, during the World War II era. Adolf Hitler is not someone who comes off as an art lover but even one of the most hated rulers of all time was fascinated by art, he stored thousands of pieces that he bought and even stole. His art room was the place where he wasn’t Hitler anymore but a man who had numerous imaginations for art. Art is just not drawing or painting it is like music, a graphic way of telling a story and allowing people to create their own according to their creativity.…
Born in Figueres, Spain on May 11, 1904 Salvador Dali imagination was created. Salvador didn’t always want to become an artist, but had incredible ambitions . His imagination and creative differed from others, at the age of 21 at the School of Fine Arts he was asked to draw a virgin just as he saw it in front of him and drew a pair of scales.…
His talents were so exceptional that during his life time he was called divine. Michelangelo had an extraordinary talent and ability to establish a psychological insight, physical realism, and intensity in his art work. He was among those few who had achieved the remarkable distinction of producing a masterpiece in more than one branch of the arts. His most famous works include fresco paintings and sculptures. His “David” and the Peita are Michelangelo’s two most famous sculptures, most famous fresco paintings include the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and one of the largest fresco paintings ever done of THE Last Judgement.…
Artistotle/Plato (384BC-347BC): Artistotle was a Greek philosopher, born in 384BC died in 347BC. Through his work, the “Scala naturae” also called “the great chain of being”, Artistotle tried to analyze the relationship between all living things. “Scala naturae” is the earliest work of taxonomy in biology, which categorized species on Earth from the simplest to most complex. He also declared that species could not ever change over time.…
Drawing inspiration/influence is a particularly tricky situation, because as artists we feel this overarching desire—nay, need—to leave a permanent and unique stain on the world. If that stain resembles too closely one that came before it, then where is the ingenuity in that? This being the case, it is impossible to make anything of merit without being at least subconsciously influenced. Only upon realizing this fact and embracing it is an artist able to fully and successfully utilize the arts as an avenue of expression. I find the works of Egon Schiele/the European Expressionists, Stephen de Staebler, Giacometti, Emma Rodgers, and Modigliani to be of utmost influence in my own work.…
1) Mustapha Mond is saying that art can only exist if it has no meaning. Because of this, beautiful works of art have to be censored because people would not understand them. In other words, art has to be dumbed down for society. Mustapha is also trying to point out that the raw emotions expressed in art would lead to social instability, which goes against the World State’s motto of “Community, Identity, and Stability.” However, creating high art is not possible without adding elements of tragedy because that is what gives it meaning.…
Beginning my junior year of high school, I had enrolled in an AP Art History class in hopes of gaining college course experience and credit. Though at first intimidated by the extensive lectures, readings, and writing the class demanded I then started to enjoy the curriculum being taught. The teacher taught the course with what seemed like infectious enthusiasm to the point where the work seemed less demanding and more fulfilling. My junior year also provided me with the opportunity to travel to two of the most pinnacle artistic cities in the world, Paris and Rome. All the knowledge learned from my AP Art History class proved to have resonated within me as I found myself serving as an enthusiastic tour guide for my fellow classmates as we traveled…