Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art

and techniques these artist use are called media. All media is art, and artist use it in their works to visually communicate a message to their audience. Media describes the items that the artist used to make that particular art. Vincent Van Gogh is an artist who used two mediums; oil and drawing to create his work of arts, Irises, and Sorrow. Van Gogh also used different techniques along with the media to visually communicate his art works with his audience. Irises is a very famous painting…

5th, 1940) is an American painter and photographer how had received most of his publicity from his art work as a photorealist from his large scale portraits. Close also often paints abstract portraits that are shown in the world's finest galleries. Although a spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he still continues to paint and produce artwork which is still sought by museums and collectors. Close now live and also works in Bridgehampton, New York. His first wife was Leslie…

like her floating hair. It looks like she’s standing but she is supposedly floating on top of the shell. Her body is very in proportionate with her elongated neck and torso. She stands in a classical stance that you would see most commonly in ancient art. The painting isn’t a realistic depiction of the world, but maybe the painter’s imagination of what it would be like. The colours in this painting are very subtle colours, nothing bright that instantly catches your eye which is good because…

viewed from the rear, galloping past the viewer’s right and toward a black train, which emerges from the works horizon to face the viewer. This painting is a gift of the Dominion Foundries and Steel Ltd. and can be found hanging on the walls of the Art Gallery of Hamilton. This piece combines contrasting shapes and lines to aid viewers in imagining the speed of both the horse and train. High-speed objects utilize well-defined lines and smooth shapes while objects such as the slow blowing grass,…

of Joseph Roulin left a great impression on van Gogh, with his dark blue uniform, sturdy golden beard and a big face. Roulin’s features was powerful and he is depicted as so in the painting; like a general. Van Gogh described the painting as “the modern portrait” in excitement when telling his brother Theo about the discovery of a colorful style of painting…

Vincent van Gogh’s, Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette Most definitely, well known painter Vincent van Gogh, certainly led a most intriguing and captivating life within the tough art world. Early in life, van Gogh did not have it easy. With the loss of his older brother-who had the same name and birthdate- van Gogh felt miserable, and fell into a state of gloom at a young age. Throughout his life, Vincent Van Gogh suffered through many forms of rejection. One of them being, love. When…

which served to embody the idea of unity and relationships. Thomas Hart Benton’s Romance (c. 1931-32), Jerry Bywaters’ Oil Field Girls (c. 1940) and Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Waitress from the Sparhawk (c. 1924-25)--which are all displayed all the Blanton Museum of Art--explore a sense of duality that exists between a human relationship. Through individual artistic methods and aesthetic approaches, each artist establishes particular sets of ideologies in their paintings. By analyzing each of their…

prominent painters which have shaped the world of human art as we know it. Painters which paint with perfection in mind, with the idea of painting what they see how it is, and then there are painters who paint not what they see, but how they see it. Two of the most famous painters in the latter category is the infamous Vincent van Gogh, and the Cubism creator, Pablo Picasso. These two painters shaped human art history as we know it, with their art work being valued at millions, and their…

When I think about what I believe to be visual art I am usually drawn to pieces that make me have some sort of emotional response. This emotional response could be from the use of colors or the subject matter used in the work. For example, Van Gogh’s Corridor in the Asylum shows a long hallway with one figure standing in the back. This almost empty corridor brings to mind a sense of loneliness that Van Gogh might have been feeling during his time there. His use of muddy colors also gives the…

by Manet in his late 30's in 1865. Just like the majority of Manet's other pieces, 'Women at the Races' was an impressionist piece. As well as this, it was an oil painting which was Manet's primary medium. This painting now resides in Cincinnati Art Museum which is Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States. Description This painting is based in Paris. It is aptly named as it pictures two women at the races. These women are dressed in extravagant blue…