It shows the face, upper body and hands of a woman. She is very plainly dressed. For a portrait, a woman would usually put on her best clothes and jewelry. The unusual thing about this picture is the smile. Mona is short for Madonna which means My Lady.…
They say a picture is worth a thousands words I agree with that a picture can say a lot to the viewer, same thing with a painting. The photograph and painting I chose to write about is about Queen Elizabeth. The photograph of Queen Elizabeth was taken in 1952 by Beatrice Johnson and it shows Queen Elizabeth wearing a beautiful crown,a yellow patterned dress, with a sash, and diamond jewelry. In the picture the queen has a slight smile not showing any teeth because, it’s a type of picture where it’s taken serious. What I mean by that is she is someone that is well known and that photograph shows her royalty and her importance by wearing her crown.…
SWA #4 (A Picture to Remember) The picture that I selected is the that shows three firemen raising a flag during on in the midst of one of Americas hardest times, September 11, 2001. The scene was captured by Thomas E. Franklin.…
The artwork I chose to imagine is Van Gogh’s famous oil painting called Starry Night. It was painted in June of 1889 and has grown to be known as one of his most famous paintings. Van Gogh was a post-impressionist and painted Starry Night from memory in his apartment. The view is of a village from a window in an asylum. I chose this painting because it has always been hanging in my Aunt’s living room.…
Joe Rosenthals 1945 photograph of US troops raising the us flag in iwo jima. This picture is one of the world most iconic photographs and is a symbol of US victory in the second world war. It has earned a Pulitzer prize, being the only photograph that has won this prize in the same year as its release and became the most recognizable and significant photos of war but some believe the scene to be staged. This picture is of the second flag, the bigger one, the first photograph was taken hours earlier but the first flag was too small to be seen and under dramatic for the events that had taken place and didn't capture the full emotion of the photograph.…
He uses emphasis to make “Red” Jackson the focal point of the photograph. He is standing in darkness, with the light from outside only falling on his face, head, and shoulder. The contrast of the dark background, and the light falling across “Red” draws your eyes first to him, and then through the broken pane of glass on his right. The second principle I noticed was balance, the photograph isn’t perfectly symmetrical, but the light falling on him and coming through the window, led me to feel a sense of…
How did man's view change during The Renaissance? It changed because of 3 major things known as art, literature and religion. Art showed many different paintings from artists like Leonardo Da Vinci and Duccio Di Buoninsegna who created famous pieces of art like the “Mona Lisa”, and the “Madonna Enthroned Between Two Angels”. Literature showed people beauty of life in a god-like way. Religion/astronomy showed how the Heliocentric universe was more accurate than the geocentric universe.…
I think “Gravity’s Rainbow” would catch the attention of anyone who comes upon it. It is such a soft and sharp work of art that I think it is one of the most beautiful paintings I’ve ever seen. Odili Odita really used such a powerful concept in a plain work of art. I think that this picture speaks more than a thousand words and has so much history and meaning behind…
There are so many art muesems in the city of Austin, Texas, that it is was difficult to choose one particular one. Although there was one muesum that stood out to me the most. The Austin Art Garage caught my eye becuase it was colorful and the art they have is more modern and around my age group. I also was intreged by all of the "Austinite" artwork they posted on there website. When i first went to the muesem I imeditly thought how cool it was.…
Now, here’s another photograph taken by Lucinda Devlin. It’s called Mermaids and it was taken in 1989 at Weechi Wachi Springs in Florida. The photograph was from her Habitats series. This picture may have been taken at an underwater event at a theme park or resort. The medium is photography and the size is 14 fonts.…
Time. The final frontier, in these snapshots of life that we call pictures we can capture many things. These frames of time that are suddenly frozen on paper or on a screen can mean so much to people. Why? How do these little time fragments invoke such great feeling and emotions in people, they are just “pictures” right.…
This painting reflects the economic and social changes of the late medieval period in Europe by displaying the social side by people interacting with each other. Also the people seem to be enjoying themselves and having a good time conversing with the other people in the room without the hassle of arguing over little things. It shows the economic changes by displaying that business can be discussed with no arguing and also how business can be handled efficiently with as minimal problems as possible and the economy consists of less battling than before. To start off I am choosing the art that is displayed at the very top of the painting.…
In the image death is playing a violin and the musician are fleeing. Close to death or the musicians,there is a female,wrapped in a shroud. The shroud represent the disease. Also around death there are people lying dead on the floor. I was interested in these picture because death was playing a violin.…
The painting I chose was Frank Stella’s “Flin Flon VIII”. It is an acrylic piece on canvas characterized by a mixture of curving and straight lines that interlock, vibrant colors, and an emphasis on the circle in the middle of the canvas. A huge quantity of negative space is present in the painting and the painting emits a smooth texture. The painting is one hundred and eight inches squared, making it one of the largest paintings in the San Diego Art Museum. Its size projects itself on the viewer overwhelming them with its color and size.…
The Mona Lisa is one of the famous world-renown paintings in our era today. One reason why people say the Mona Lisa is famous is because many people are fascinated by the mysteriousness the woman in the portrait displays. I never understood why Mona Lisa why? But I did some research and I found out back in the day around the 1850’s to the 19th century the Mona Lisa was not the most famous painting in the world.…