Caravaggio

apart of the Baroque art movement. The Baroque movement was spiritual, resulting in many religious paintings. Some qualities of paintings from the Baroque movement were drama, and tension (The Editors). When he was young, Murillo was influenced by Caravaggio, often used chiaroscuro to add drama to his art (Gillet), but later on in his life began to create lighter and softer artworks. Murillo was big on realistic details in his pieces, resulting in him mostly creating representational…

define baroque art are, grandeur, dramatic, emotionally intense, colourful, and even common themes such as visions, martyrdom, death, and psychological moments. Some significant artists of the baroque era are, Michelangelo Merisi (also known as Caravaggio),…

artists to come. Even though Artemisia faced constant struggle and backlash due to her gender, she asserted herself as one of the great artistic minds of the Renaissance creating numerous pieces depicting strong women, following the art style of Caravaggio. During her lifetime, from the late 16th century until the mid-1600s, she built a reputation as one of Europe’s most sought-after artists. Rich patrons, like the Medicis, and preeminent kings, like Charles I of England, commissioned her to…

1. Mexican Muralism – Mexican muralism is the term used to describe the revival of large-scale mural painting in Mexico during the 1920’s and 1930’s. The three greatest Mexican muralists were José Clemente, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Diego Rivera is known to be the most important painter of the movement. The Mexican muralism is also known as one of the greatest movements in Mexican territories as it gave a new way for painters to be able to paint in civic buildings and in…

Texts that highlight the stratification of groups in society and the perpetual pursuit of self-identity will always endure through time. Michael Ondaatje’s historiographical 1987 novel, In the Skin of a Lion, addresses these two themes to a significant extent to convey his ultimate message about the migrant experience and inaccuracy of official histories. In using a post-modernist structure and style Ondaatje attacks the notion of the Grand Narrative whilst the struggle of the migrant…

CHAPTER TWO -Baroque- "Baroque" is a style in Europe since the early 17th century. Bqroque from the Portuguese "barroco", meaning an irregular pearls. Renaissance humanist writer used the word to criticize those who do not follow the classical works of art produced by the specification. Although inherited Baroque Renaissance illusionism establish up to reproduce the traditional, but abandoned the pure, harmonious, stable classical style, the pursuit of a complicated hyperbole, magnificent,…

A woman dressed in a finely, pressed, blue and white, pin striped dress, hair slicked-back in a high ponytail, wearing circular-shaped sunglasses, leather handbag, and walking in high heels on the cobblestone streets of Florence. An old woman sits in front of a shop demonstrating how she sews as she monograms clothes. A man in black, tailored, dress pants, white buttoned down shirt with the top buttons opened, sunglasses reflecting the bright sun, and black leather shoes. These are some examples…

Emmanuel Radantzki best known as Ray Man born on August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but raised in Brooklyn New York. Was an American visual artist, painter, filmmaker and photographer. Raised by two Jewish immigrants from Russia, Ray Man’s father Melach Radnitsky worked in a garment factory and ran a small tailoring business from home with his family and his mother Manya Radnitsky as a seamstress. Radnitsky being the oldest sibling has one younger brother and two sisters following…

depicting that of the hunt to the modern surrealism depicted by Salvador Dalí. The vast expanse of emotion behind visual art is truly beyond the peripheral of the mind’s eye. The talents depicted by such magnificent Baroque artists such as Rembrandt, Caravaggio, and the female painter Artemisia Gentileschi as well as many others have given artists through the ages to both inspiration and encouragement to pursue their own work. Baroque Aesthetic Principles Describing a period of time between…

This painting is one of many versions of the biblical story of Judith beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi, a well-known female painter of the Baroque period. Although she gained acclaim as a painter, few women of her time had the opportunity to become an artist, a privilege afforded to her in part because her father owned a studio and painted, as well. In the Bible, Holofernes, an Assyrian bully and enemy to Israel, slaughtered his way into the city of Bethulia, a town at the entrance…