Acropolis Museum

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…

Tooba Malik Les Orangers ART 01, Art Appreciation 24 October 2017 Les Orangers The Orange Trees a painting by French impressionist Gustave Caillebotte is part of a collection donated to the museum Of fine arts, Houston. The picture portrays a daytime scene; this canvas was painted in Yerres in 1878. The person sitting in the shade of the orange trees with his back towards the viewer is Caillebotte sibling Martial and standing at one of the garden planters is his cousin Zoé, you can see them…

Though there were many styles of art presented in the lecture this week, the ones that fascinated me the most were realism, impressionism and post-impressionism. Interestingly, all three of these styles have their own way of illuminating the viewer/audience. While realism captures people and events of their own time, impressionism captures effects of light, fleeting moments of color. Post-impressionism, on the other hand, expresses emotions through quality of formal element such as color, line,…

Agua Grande is an interesting art work created by Cai Guoqiang. It can be seen both as a performance art or a painting. The process of making the Agua Grande is beautiful and can be seen as performance art because it combined both artist’s movement and strong visual impact. Cai use gunpowder as the material to paint his art, he will set the gunpowder on the paper and covered the entire paper and gunpowder, he will reserve a fuse so he can then set the fire on and burn the gunpowder under the…

Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried both are working out of the modernist perspective in the 1950’s and 1960’s. This perspective is a framework that describes how art could be understood during this time period. Modernist art in both Greenberg and Fried’s perspectives appeals to the concept of medium specificity, how this ends up affecting the pictorial space and in the end the meaning of the work as understood by the artist/viewer. In this writing a discussion on the relevant aspects of this…

Vincent van Gogh, who is amongst the most famous Post-Impressionist artists, who paintings are exceptionally unique. One characteristic that made Van Gogh’s art unique was his dramatic, yet expressive personal style he added on to his work. Van Gogh was an art dealer, teacher, and evangelist before he decided to pursue being an artist. When Van Gogh moved to Paris, it led to him gaining exposure to the Parisian avant-garde. From there, Van Gogh tailored Seurat’s pointillism, by applying…

(Alsdorf, 316). Cézanne wanted to show the “experience of the painter through his art” and the viewer is able to experience that by seeing all the detailed brush strokes on the canvas and the materials he used by just looking at the artwork (Metropolitan Museum). Gallace paints with the same precision Cézanne had, because she believes painting is about doing a lot of thinking and staring. Gallace portrays emotion by spending “a lot more time thinking about and looking at paint and paintings than…

Midnight in Chinatown In SFMOMA, the work that attracted me the most is “Midnight in Chinatown” taken by Williard E. Worden in 1903. As the name suggests, the photography depicts the Chinatown at midnight by using a long shot. There are Chinese traditional buildings along on the sides with dim lantern lights reflecting on the surface of ground. The photograph has a grey tone overall, which enhances a sense of quietness. The photographer uses the technique of perspective to suggest the endless…

Edouard Manet and Alexandre Cabanel may have both been taught by academic teachers but when it comes to their paintings and techniques they are in two completely different areas of art. Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel is a painting about a biblical story that many people knew compared to Edouard Manet’s The Ragpicker which is a painting of a regular day person that people could walk by on the street without much thought to them. In Edouard Manet’s oil painting The Ragpicker Manet used a…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the Met, is the most famous museum in New York City, and the largest museum in North America. The Met also owns a museum in far Upper Manhattan called “The Cloisters”, which predominantly showcases various forms of art from the medieval period. Although, I will be talking about the main Met compound located at 1000 Fifth Avenue. The Met’s permanent collection is comprised of art from an expansive range of culture and various time periods within said cultures.…