Cave painting

The painting Large Reclining Nude by Henri Matisse involved lots of experimentation to arrive at the final product. I believe that the significance of documenting the 22 photographs of the painting various stages was to emphasize the thought process of producing a final artwork. Matisse experimented different ways to present the artwork, such as by changing the woman’s position and background patterns, until he created the last painting. He documented to see the changes he made each stage and…

He asked questions about dimensionality, color, lighting, viewpoints, anatomy, architecture, and engineering always treating science and art as interchangeable subjects. Leonardo da Vinci created a fixed viewpoint between the person viewing the painting and…

figures. An example of one is a painting of Pope Paul III, which took him six months to paint. He was also invited into Charles V court to paint his portrait. A lot of Titian’s paintings had to do with Roman goddesses, usually Venus. An example of a Roman inspired painting was “Venus and Adonis." Which he created for Philip II, and got inspired by Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.” Titian’s soon developed a new style which was much different than his beginning style. He made his paintings new by using…

about it. It is regarded as one of the most famous paintings in the world. It is a mural painted on a wall of The Santa Maria Thanksgiving Church in Milan, Italy. Since it was painted on a wall, it cannot be moved, so it is still remained on the wall so far. It is in size of 4.2 meters high and 9.1 meters long. And, it is a religious painting based on a story of the Holy Bible. (Encyclopedia of art education) Below is a clear image of the painting-The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. From…

Ansel Adams was an influential American photographer that died on April twenty-second in Monterey, California during 1984 leaving a legacy behind. He was born on February twentieth in San Francisco, California during 1902 and start to pursue his career of photography in the 1920s. As a child, he struggled with Attention Deficient Disorder, and being disruptive and sick often, he was taught privately at his house in California at the age of twelve. His life of solitude lead to his discovery of…

wondered how some of them could be so famous. A really popular piece of work, titled Le Violon d'Ingres, is an image of a nude woman sitting down, with two f-holes of a violin painted onto her back. Man created this by first taking the portrait, then painting the f-holes onto the actual image, then photographing the image again. The image doesn’t look like anything special, but I’m sure it was good work quality at the time it was made. He has another piece that’s a self portrait. His face is…

Culture defines art. According to Webster's dictionary, the definition of culture is the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular group, place, and or time. As time progresses and present becomes past, the ability to preserve a society lies on the capacity to transfer history through tangible forms. Art has the capacity to preserve society and its history; it preserves events and emotions that were once meaningful to an era. Animal symbolism in Chinese and Japanese art as seen in a war…

still life vanitas: In the arts, vanitas is one of the symbolic work of art especially linked a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability, also it is connected with other places and periods. The word vanitas it is actually a Lation word means "vanity" and loosely translated agree to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. As applied to vanitas art, the word…

Théodore Géricault Le Radeau de La Méduse (the raft of the medusa) French Romantic artist (1798-1863) oil painting Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) is an influential French painter and lithographer. The Raft of the Medusa is known for his most famous piece, which is an oil painting on canvas completed during 1818 to 1819, when he was in the age of 27. The painting depicts the scene of the aftermath when a shipwreck occured, this is referred to a real event happened on…

its big opening this Friday. It will look over the 60 year journey through painting of Frank, and his 70 large artworks accompanied by drawings, prints, photographs and studies. This exhibition starts from his days at the peak of the New York art world as a Minimalist prodigy, when he developed his skills of abstract painting, through his mischief years as Minimalism’s most prominent renegade. Mr. Stella began by painting himself without any expectations and he…