Children's museum

Your Name Professor Name Subject Name 04 September 20XX Vincent van Gogh as a Mad Genius Vincent van Gogh is celebrated as one of the most influential Western artists in history, but he is also one of the most complex. Born in the mid 1800s in the Netherlands, van Gogh spent the first portion of his life intent on studying theology but turned to art only a decade or so before his death. While he created over two thousand pieces of artwork that are revered today, he was not considered a famous…

David May Kucharski Drawing I Due: December 5th Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh is most commonly known for his style of “impasto” which is a technique where paint, usually oil paint is laid on thickly and sometimes in layers so that the paint strokes are visible to the viewer. However, throughout his lifetime, Van Gogh experimented with many different styles and techniques. Some of those being oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sketches. But even within these different styles, one…

When you’re born and raised on a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you don’t get to experience all four seasons like, colorful fall leaves, thick white snow, and blooming flowers. However, on a small island the one advantage you have is being able to watch the sunrise in the east and watch the sunset on the west all in one day. Having the ability to watch the sunrise and sunset as a child all the way up until now I have grown an obsession with nature. I love to watch the sunrise…

Edward Hopper created the beautiful painting titled Nighthawks. It is made from oil on canvas. He created the painting in 1942 and he was inspired to create it because of a restaurant on New York’s Greenwich Avenue. Fluorescent light came into use in the early 1940’s. Nighthawks is a painting showing four people in a restaurant late at night. The lines in the painting are mostly straight with a few curves. The lines are mostly straight to make the buildings more structured. The shapes are…

Atmospheric perspective is designed to suggest a 3D space in the 2D space of the picture, and in which forms and objects distant from the viewer (Adams, 2003). This atmospheric perspective can be seen in the sky of the painting, the viewer cannot see anything distinct pass the mountain, but it is implied there is something beyond the mountains. The atmospheric perspective stretches the landscape of the painting, and makes the painting seem bigger than it actually is. Highlights in paintings are…

women's’ hair and the bows tying their hair back; the shine on their hair suggests that the moon is out above them and the bows give them an even more child-like appearance. Today the painting is the located in Paris, France at the Musee d’Orsay museum. Gauguin did several other similar paintings including “Two Women of Tahiti” and “Two Tahitian Women”, the first being the most similar. Overall the painting can be described as very calm and timeless; this piece has been around for more than a…

Paul Cezanne was a talented artist that both Matisse and Picasso have said; they owe Paul Cezanne much respect and gratitude for getting them to the levels that they achieved. In this short paper we will look at what was important to Paul Cezanne and how he constructed his works of art, and then compare this to works of art by Matisse and Picasso. We will pull out examples of how Cezanne inspired these two artists and also how these two artists were trying to break free from Cezanne and become…

The decisions an artist makes are typically determined by the materials they use, and the techniques that the artist apply to those certain materials. The combination of materials and techniques these artist use are called media. All media is art, and artist use it in their works to visually communicate a message to their audience. Media describes the items that the artist used to make that particular art. Vincent Van Gogh is an artist who used two mediums; oil and drawing to create his work of…

portraits. Close also often paints abstract portraits that are shown in the world's finest galleries. Although a spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he still continues to paint and produce artwork which is still sought by museums and collectors. Close now live and also works in Bridgehampton, New York. His first wife was Leslie Rose with whom he has two daughters. They finally divorced in 2011 and is now married to artist Sienna Shields. Most of his early works are very…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum are organized in a style that shows a developing history of the United States through social and cultural representations. The iconic work that seems to unify both museums is the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington which significantly highlights the spirit of American history painting through the later parts of the eighteen hundreds. Being the American icon he is, George Washington and his portraits reveal that he is one of the…