Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art

I visited the Getty museum in Los Angeles. My favorite piece at the Getty is actually a pair of oil paintings by Abraham Solomon (1857). Both Waiting for the Verdict and Not guilty capture the emotions before and after the announcement of a Victorian man’s verdict. In the first piece, Waiting for the Verdict, Solomon illustrates an array of emotions that reflect the moment. In the lower left of the painting, a remorseful man sits with his head in his hands while his body leans forward,…

portrait competition. It as named after JFA and was first awarded in 1921. His aim was to foster portraiture as well as support artists and preserve the memory of great Australians. William Dobell, painted fellow painter and beloved figure of Australian art, Margret Olley; and won in 1948. Margret Olley was also painted a second time by Ben Quilty in 2011, that too won the Archibald prize. Although The two paintings, use the same subject matter and title, they are both very different visually.…

That beautiful piece of art meant a lot to the residents. There is constant movement in that freeway, many people could be driving by there and asking them selfs "What happened to the beautiful mural that was once here?" The city did not put the residents of LA into consideration. Whether they like or not there are many people living there and have treasured that beautiful work of art. "There are historical preservations acts for architecture and perhaps…

done by Thomas Eakins, an American realist painter, who also dabbled in photography. Eakins is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. Throughout Eakins career he had difficulties with the public and critics. The Gross Clinic, 1875 is an oil on canvas, 96" x 77" and was rejected by the art jury for the exhibition in Philadelphia, because it was too brutally realistic. The painting illustrates the prominent surgeon Dr. Samuel Gross conducting a surgery…

Edgar Degas was a French painter known for his paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. The painting The Dance Class, painted in 1874, was one of his most famous works because it was one of the most ambitious ones. Degas had used perspective to create an illusion of a three dimensional world. Light and shadow also play a significant role in introducing the painting as three dimensional. While the painting is static, one may focus on how gentle the movements are painted. For example, it…

I chose Van Gogh because I think that his art although it does have a dark meaning behind it is truly beautiful. My favorite painting done by Van Gogh is his painting titled The Starry Night. I am not a huge art fan but since I can remember this is one piece that I thought was done so incredibly well. The way he expressed the way he felt about death in this was amazing he took something so dark and scary to some people and made it into a true work of art. I love the way that he used the stars to…

The Frida Kahlo Museum, also known as La Casa Azul, is located in the center of Coyoacan, an old and picturesque neighborhood in the south of Mexico City. La Casa Azul is the place where the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was born, lived and died, becoming a Museum in 1958, four years after her death. Today is one of the most visited museums in Mexico City at national and international level. Each month receives about 25,000 visitors, 45% of them foreign. Frida Kahlo is the most famous…

Some of his paintings could be interpreted as self portraits (such as the men in bowler hats), others feature his wife Georgette, and their apartment in Brussels makes an appearance every so often. Magritte's art and development as an artist was influenced during his childhood was his encounter with a painter in a cemetery and state it was as if 'he were performing magic'. The second event being the suicide of his mother when he was 14, it is believed that the…

In 1889, a Dutch painter by the name of Vincent van Gogh created this piece called Wheat Field with Cypresses. This painting's medium was oil on canvas and had a dimension of 28 7/8 x 36 ¾ in. A Cypress is an evergreen coniferous tree in which van Gogh loved to capture and paint landscapes with the trees in it. He considered this to one of the best summer landscapes. An element found in this piece by Vincent van Gogh is line. Lines are all over in this piece and the lines connect to each other…

century artist, James Abbott McNeil Whistler. At first glance, one notices the simple yet elegant nature of this painting. The focus in this piece is put on the Thames River and the Battersea Bridge since they are at the forefront of the painting. This art work encompasses the beauty of the Thames River during night time, hence the use of the word "nocturne" in the naming of this piece. However, it is worth mentioning that this specific work can almost appear monochromatic due to the…