Canvas

At a very young age, Van Gogh began to showcase his talented skills, but he decided to pursue his childhood artistry at age 27. Vincent emerged as a symbol of Post-Impressionism because of his use of vivid colors, emotional portrayals, and unique canvas surfaces in every painting. Inspired by Seurat, he learned Pointillism from Émile Bernard. He intensified the color of his paintings by using stippling brush strokes. From a distance, these small touches created an optical blending of the color…

The most unique type of art in this collection would have to be the painting titled Exotic History by Harry Widman. The craft is an oil on canvas that can be seen at the PCC campus of Rock Creek at building seven on the left side. The painting shows of three shadow figures of women painted in an abstract way makes it unique which is how all art is. Exotic History has a distinct visual style that work with one another to captivate the viewer, and get them to contemplate the meaning behind the…

detailed lines of the dress and the shoulders of the dress are remarkable. Also there is immense use of texture and pattern for the dress. Thirdly, I enjoyed the painting called, Lovers in a park by Francois Boucher. It is a sixteenth century oil canvas. Francois Boucher is the most successful painter of his time. This painting is elegant and decorative. I like the blue sky shading in the background. He also has a little foreground including the enumerated trees. The attention span was the way…

history in which these paintings are based is when the previously divided Germany had just collapsed as a result of the Eastern German Government giving way and opening the Berlin Wall. This specifically happened in November of 1989, which is one of the canvas' titles. Although this was a positive event in German history, the purpose of Richter's paintings was to reveal a much deeper emotional and political uncertainty from these changes. The paintings aim to represent the past, the present, and…

(mentalfloss.com). Her family did not settle in Kansas until the year of 1870 (murderpedia.org). They purchased 160 acres of land in Labette County along the Santa Fe Trail, where they built a small, one-roomed home. The Bender house was split by a canvas wall. Their family quarters were in the back, and their inn and store were in the front (mentalfloss.com). Bender helped run the family’s…

One of the best parts of working on exhibitions drawn from the ZMA’s extensive permanent collection is the opportunity it provides for a look at some of the hidden gems at the museum. During the preparation of Sketching American Modernism, I discovered a painting that captured my interest. The work was the Portrait of Mrs. Helen McCoy Storer, c. 1910 by Charles Alden Gray (1857-1933). While arguably not by one of the most well-known artists in our collection, it was, at that moment, the most…

Since I have been in Lubbock I have never gotten the opportunity to go to the Texas Tech Museum. Upon going to the museum I did not know what to expect. When I went recently, for the first time, went to the Texas Tech Museum I noticed that the museum had numerous of things in it such as dinosaurs, visuals for the Native Americans, Chinese artifacts, paintings and etc. Even though they had a lot to offer I just paid close attention to the paintings. I notice painting of emotions, painting of…

to spread nationwide over the past decade. He refers to this event as "a party; not a class." Schoettle interviewed a frequent wine and canvas attendant, Alexandra Harris, who further explains how this event is "not a class." According to Harris, even the most amateur of painters can create a great work of art through instruction. Although the wine and canvas events are lead by an instructor, similar to an art class; the relaxed, party-like setting allows for guests to have fun and be social…

The artistic movement known as impressionism sought to capture events and scenes in order to convey their essence not through exact reproduction but rather through color and light. The goal was not only to reproduce the scene itself but to also reproduce the sensation and life of the scene. The impressionist style with its free and unplanned brushstrokes, bright and vivid colors, and innocent subjects soon became synonymous with modern life and art. Various individuals within the movement would…

Rosalind Krauss, Originality of the Avante-Garde " Originality of the Avante-Garde" - the most famous book of Krauss - is a collection of essays written and published primarily in the 1980s. In them, Krauss analyzes the most varied stories of the history of art modernism - from Duchamp and Giacometti to Sol Levitt and Ellsworth Kelly. However, examining the art of the twentieth century, she constantly calls into question the very position of the researcher, the conceptual framework in which…