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My final Encore art project is named “Environment”, I created my artwork in a mixed media form.My artwork presents two perspectives of environment; one is the nature environment and the other one is the cultural/social environment. I painted my canvas with acrylic to give it a deeper expression and I also added objects that we would see in our daily lives, I recycled and added them into my artwork so that my art could have a 3D expression. The word, “environment”, is assigned to me during my…

Critical Analysis on The Night Cafe by Vincent Van Gogh In 1888, Vincent Van Gogh painted a painting called The Night Cafe. He used oil on canvas as his medium and used a 72,4 cm by 92.1 cm canvas. The subject matter of the piece is a narrative, and the setting takes place indoors. To be more specifically it’s in a cafe which contains many still lives such as clocks, tables, chairs, glasses, and much more.In addition to the still lifes there is also many people doing a variety of things…

The Starry Night painting by Vincent Van Gogh was painted in 1889. It was an oil canvas of the night sky. Van Gogh was a fanatic for night time and showed that in this painting. In Starry Night, the light is shining bright with energy and life, with a very quiet village below. Van Gogh put the cypress tree in his painting to connect the earth and sky, some say that he used the tree to reflect his own thoughts about death. Van Gogh depicted a lot of darkness in this oil painting, but made it seem…

Las Maninas was done in 1656 by the famous Spanish leading artist of the Spanish golden age “Diego Velazquez”. This painting was created in Spain in the Alcazar palace in Madrid. In this naturalistic western masterpiece the artist used the oil on canvas. He was inspired from the baroque’s technique which is exaggerated motion and the painting is 318 cm x 276 cm. it is a portrait of the royal family of Spain kind Filipe IV. The second you look at the painting you notice the cute little princess…

type of work. Otero is renowned for his skin paintings, and for the skin he used dried oil paint sheets that he glued and then collaged it on the surface of canvas. He also scrapes off the oil paint and attaches it to distorted surface, which gives it more of a three dimensional look. For the transfer he projected the digitized photograph on canvas and then drafted the parts of the image in silicone and then he applied powdered graphite to the silicone. Lastly he use to squeeze the surface using…

road to Tarascon Vincent Van Gogh did an artwork called, Painter on the road to Tarascon, that is a great, unfortunate, piece of canvas that did not last up to this day. The painting was around for a while to be admired by many people, but certain events led the original piece to not be available for the people of the 21st century. The Painter on the road to Tarascon canvas had a meaning towards Van Gogh himself in different ways. The painting may seem like a simple portrait of an artist, but…

Analyzing Fig 8.0 it is difficult not to notice the dominating figure encompassing the entire canvas. Through layers and layers of paint we find ourselves trying to construct the body of this figure, whose only recognizable feature is her face. The overlapping of colors to create different colors, the quickness of the brush strokes, the thickness…

first layer of color on our canvas, blending into subsequent hues, influencing the new colors and experiences of the oeuvre. As in Wilde’s depiction of Dorian Gray in his infamous portrait highlights the subject’s true qualities, so too does the painting we conjure within our mind emphasize our identity. Through experience we change and through others’ views we portray on outward personality, and yet the constancy of our childhood home remains the background on our canvas. But with each day…

Saint of Protection The painting of El Archangel Michael is the attributed to Juan Correa of Mexico. It is oil on canvas portrait style of painting, in which the artist has made use of implied lights space to bring the piece to life and to truly personify the Archangel Michael as a powerful other worldly entity. The painting represents Saint Michael, the guardian of faith from the Roman mythology, making it is a religious piece of art. The painting has vertical lines and is more taller than…

one route towards feminism and one should just be themselves as long as they are politically conscious and help in the fight toward feminism. The colors of no.34 symbolizes Baumgardner’s words well, as they are again individual colors splattered on canvas colors that should or…