Chiaroscuro

archangel taking up most of the center space. You could feel a sort of pressure and caused the figure to seem slightly imposing. The artist intrigues the viewers by creating more than one area of interest in a very detailed and eye catching way. The chiaroscuro of the piece is balanced evenly with Michael standing in a dark and ominous space illuminated by the sun, and also shows that even though it is a bright and heavenly figure, his mission require him to persevere against darkness. The…

Key notions explored through the film are; the transactional nature of human interactions, the complexity of friendship and loyalty and the ambiguous nature of morality. Reed portrays these through his stylistic use of the film noir techniques, chiaroscuro lighting and the musical instrument the zither to explore the human condition in Post- war Vienna. If all human interactions are transactional, then any…

When ‘Citizen Kane’ was originally released in 1941, it gave an insight into the manipulation and distortion of the press by scrutinizing Kane’s desire to gain control. As Kane’s character is based on newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst, Welles depicts Kane’s influential media control by exposing the beginning of “yellow journalism” as Kane reiterates Hearst’s famous note, “you provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war.” Kane’s unethical abuse of media power expressed when Kane states…

José Vivas- Astara created an oil on canvas painting Catalan Scene in 1971 using oil paints. The painting is a landscape painting. The art piece shows the missions with a couple of houses surrounding it. All the houses are connected to each other but they are all different heights. The houses have red tiled roofs and white stucco walls. Close to the houses there is a body of water with trees and grass surrounding it. In the painting you can tell it’s a sunny day by how the painting depicts warm…

Often containing didactic messages intended to persuade audiences into a certain set of behaviors or impress upon them a certain set of ideals, propaganda has been used by human culture and society for thousands of years. With the advent of the printing press in 1436 by a German goldsmith named Johaness Gutenberg, propaganda prints became more and more widespread and delivered with greater ease to the masses. The printing press became widely used throughout the modern world by the beginning of…

Raphael's famous painting The School of Athens is the most praised bits of artwork from the age of the Renaissance. The fresco was painted in the High Renaissance of Humanism and is the perfect encapsulation of the established classical spirit. Raphael's "School of Athens" is considered by numerous modern art historians to be irrefutably the masterpiece of the Renaissance. The school of Athens symbolizes the hypothesis that set the support for the modern thinking. In the three stories,…

Ariadne Florentina’s lecture on wood and metal engraving exposes the complexity behind the execution of wood engravings as well as the responsibility of artists to pay respect to the natural characteristics of the medium. The reading also details the extreme precision and skill required for wood engravings by exploring the role and necessity of the hand in following the directions of the mind as a faithful and dedicated servant. In essence, it is essential for the hand to showcase dexterity to…

The characteristics of paintings by important Renaissance artists Michelangelo - Michelangelo is widely regarded as the most famous artist of the Italian Renaissance. Among his works are the "David" and "Pieta" statues and the Sistine Chapel frescoes. His works are characterized as monumental, muscular figures with reclining, twisted poses in his sculptures and painting compositions based on diagonal lines and curves . Michelangelo did not believe that beauty was guaranteed through the…

1. How does the idealism of the High Renaissance relate to the naturalistic and classical aesthetic of the Early Renaissance? Use specific examples to support your essay. In comparison from the High Renaissance to the Early Renaissance there is many similarities in the aesthetics of the art pieces. Looking at figure 15.44 from Piero della Francesca titled Double Portrait of Battista Sforza and Federico Montefeltro from the Early Renasiisance you can see a difference in the backdrop behind the…

priests of power” further enhances the party’s control at the expense of individual freedom. Likewise, in Metropolis the exploration of the workers in the plutocracy of Metropolis is apparent through the use of expressionist film techniques of the chiaroscuro lightning, exaggerated with angular skylines and art deco set designs which suggest stratification of the society. The wealthy play in Son’s Club, dancing around fountains, their chiefly white costume symbolic of the Greek God Neptune who…