The paint seems to have bene extremely thin as it was brushed over other parts of the canvas previously painted. Skin can be seen beneath the wispy strokes of the fabric on the maidservant’s chest, as well as the folds beneath the shoulder on Judith herself. These details add another layer of interest to this painting by playing with those…
Rembrandt has used brush effects to create textures and effects of clothes but in this portrait his brushworks only evoke the action of painting. His colors are monochrome as if he was working with a restricted palette and instead relied on using thick and thin paint to create…
Hung Liu decided to paint this using oil on a canvas. By her using this media it made it appear as if it was photograph. This allowed the viewer to get a flash of the past since it made it look antique and the dripping effect by the oil further contributed to that very thing. Hung Liu style is quite impressive as well. Throughout most of her paintings she uses oil canvas and frequently has a great deal of contrast of colors within them.…
Henry Tanner was an American painter and a pioneer of his era. Most notably, he is known for illustrating biblical scenes, but his artwork and career generated so much more for society. Tanner was born only 4 years after the end of the Civil War. Both of his parents literate and well educated; his father a minister, while his mother, a former slave, taught school (Henry). This was extremely progressive for this era of time.…
I am visiting Long Island City in Queens, New York...and am writing to tell you about an amazing oil on canvas, precisionist cityscape painting from 1928, "East River from the Shelton Hotel", by Georgia O'Keefe. I traveled to Long Island City, to get a glimpse of the location of this breathtaking and detailed piece of O'Keefe's. I believe the message the artist is relying through this piece is that, the factories emit dirty smoke into the atmosphere, which is harsh, and the artist is displeased with this modern city way of life. The $277.20 I spent on the roundtrip ticket to come to this location of where the art was created, is definitely well worth it. I am staying at Four Points by Sheraton, which is $189; that's not too bad compared to…
A View Of The City This composition stands out among other works by Robert Birdwell of this period in its fiery colors and absence of recognizable elements. This piece have bright colors that grab the attention of the viewers eye. It looks like it could be many different things all inside of one painting like one big galaxy universe. For Example, it has blue looking buildings sitting next to a lake house depending on what angle you look at the picture by. The painting is based off the city of Knoxville and it describes the emotion throughout the city.…
Lucretia 1666, Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn, Oil on Canvas Rembrandt explains the tale of Lucretia, who was the wife of a Roman nobleman. Rembrandt’s retelling of t Lucretia’s story showcases deep emotional feeling. Lucretia was raped by the son of a tyrannical roman king, named Tarquinius.…
Many different material choices and artistic process have been used in this painting. Millais worked outside to produce sketches and took back to the studio to create a larger finished painting. To create Millais model pretending to be Ophelia drowning in the river, the lady was put in a bath full of water. Some oil lamps were placed underneath to keep the water warm. An antique dress was brought into this painting.…
Of course since this is a portrait of a beautiful woman, the artist would want to paint her in a way that makes her look gentle and kind, refined and fresh. If you pay close attention, there is a texture created by the paint on the chair and the blanket, and both of those create the illusion of actual furniture. The color scheme and textures used in the portrait work well together. It gives off the feeling of realism, like this is a setting you could walk out your front door and see (although not really because this is back in 1859 in Europe.) The media works well with this portrait, because of it being so realistic the oil gives off the feeling of a realistic piece of work, and is easily blend-able, which would help the artist be able to blend and make the piece look real.…
Germans, Picasso was asked if he “did that” by a Nazi officer, who was pointing at a photograph of Guernica, whom Picasso then countered, “no, you did”. By its history, Guernica has great significance. Especially, because this public critique of the Spanish Nationalist regime and the German Nazis was highly political and a loud scream for change and self-reflection in the regimes. Furthermore, it was not common until after the second world war for artists to get involved in political affairs and directly attack their operations. Guernica, 1937, Oil on Canvas, is a very large painting that measures 3.5 meters in height and 7.8 meters in width.…
(Figure 1), which is currently exhibited at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Poussin reflects this stable frieze-like landscape, in a direct reference to ancient roman times, carefully placed and framed within the cloisters of delicately contrasting layers of nature—he derives this creation from the long-present tradition of classical Roman and Greek art, the tradition of order, reason and tuneful clarity. These frieze-like compositions, where the figures are grouped together on the painting’s foreground, are a recurrent theme…
In the early 1940’s, Archibald John Motley Jr. produced a lively, celebrated painting. Motley was an African American artist that wanted to express his pride in the African American race. He believed that, “It is a culture that is exciting, dynamic, and purely their own” (Harlem). He expressed their culture by creating the piece, Nightlife, right after the Harlem Renaissance.…
The colors used in the artwork, the materials used, and the expression or the face in the artwork help to make the artwork recognizable and a successful piece of work. The Myra use of color give the painting a dark mysterious effect about the painting. The colors in the painting are very cool dark colors that range from light grey to black.…
Painting Process Essay Are you feeling crafty, and want to get a little messy? Painting sounds like fun, but you are not particularly artistic. The ability to make something extremely creative isn’t required to make a piece of art that will look marvelous. Having all the right materials and tools available before you begin is most important for making a work of art.…
“The Scream” I really like this painting because somehow it involves mystery and insecurity and to my eyes, the rare views in it reflect a sense of how deep the feelings and thoughts of a person can be. In addition, the fact that the composition does not allow viewers to appreciate the face of the screaming person, is what has drawn me to it. Even though it seems to be that it was a lovely afternoon for everyone, it seems that it was not for the scared looking person. Although two boats are seen on the lake and two people walking very pleasingly behind, the scared looking person seems to be astonished and perhaps confused toward something. Hence, looking at this mysterious individual posing his hands on his face with his mouth open has given me the impression that he or she is appreciating something non real that no one else is able to notice; no one but him.…