Chinese painting

Leonardo Da Vinci’s one of the most famous masterpiece in his life work. This piece is especially recognized as an unprecedented and fascinating ingenious layout of excellence. Realistic detail and strict decent relationship compared with many other paintings. The characters in the composition are filled with fear, anger, doubt, gestures, eye contact and behaviors. These vivid characterizations give the audience an immersive sense. “Leonardo painted this mural in the late fifteenth…

Art work neatly lines the being colored walls of a standard sized room in the University of Arizona’s Museum of Art. Hanging next to an oil painting of a vibrant rainbow gracing the sky of what could easily be downtown Tucson, is a piece of art work the elegantly displays the stark black wing of a plane gliding over a town or city that’s been brought to life with small dots of color. That piece of artwork is American Artist Yvonne Jacquette’s “Night Wing View 1”, a 15-color screenprint published…

After a thorough examination, I chose to discuss two of Jonathan Green’s works because they were in a medium that I am the most familiar with and they spoke to me in a way that none of the other works did. My personal favorite was a monumental oil painting entitled “Seeking, which was created in 2006, on a very large stretched canvas. It was by far the most eye catching picture in the gallery, with its bright and demanding shades of reds and greens. A tv was set up nearby playing a documentary…

Maurits Cornelis Escher, also known as M.C Escher, was a graphic artist between 1898 and 1972. He is most famous for his unique works that incorporated mathematics, specifically the manipulation of perspective and space. He developed an innovative style of both print and engraved art (“M.C. Escher Biography”). Some of his most well-known works include, “Relativity,” “Ascending and Descending,” “Hand with Reflecting Sphere,” and “Metamorphosis” (Gallery, “Most Popular”). M.C. Escher was born…

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Michaelangelo for short, was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, the republic of Florence, Italy. His father, Lodovico Buonarroti, served as a Florentine government agent for a short amount of time. The family moved back to Florence before Michelangelo was even one month old. Michelangelo's mother died when he was six. When he was 13, he was an apprentice for Domenico Ghirlandaio who was the most fashionable painter in Florence at the time. Domenico…

Description The Problem We All Live With is an oil painting on canvas that artist Normal Rockwell created in 1964. The artwork is measured at exactly 36” x 58”. The Problem We All Live With is from the permanent collection of the Norman Rockwell Museum, which is located at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. This artwork was created after Ruby Bridges attended William J. Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. This image captures the menacing act that white people did to African…

In Glenn legion’s painting “I do not always feel colored” created in 1990, he uses black oil sticks to paint black letters onto a white background. I chose Glenn Legion because he beautifully demonstrates how we as a species should stand up against societal stigmas of different cultures and instead embrace each other’s originality to create a better world together. In this piece, Legion succeeds in promoting a visual dialogue of how separated he feels our society has become based on our skin…

This painting is called “Christ on The Cross between the Two Thieves”. It was created in the Baroque Era by a famous painter named Peter Paul Rubens in the year 1619 through 1620. The painting encompasses many key themes from The Brothers Karamazov, such as: love, suffering, and free will. The themes represented in the painting proves Ivan misunderstood suffering and free will which caused his rebellion against God; "It's not God I don't accept, understand this, I do not accept the world, that…

depict different variations of the Roman goddess of love, Venus. The first topic of concern involves the famous painting by the Italian master Titian, “Venus of Urbino” which was completed in 1538, attributed to the Renaissance era. The second piece, “Olympia” was inspired by the original painting “Venus of Urbino”, but instead Eduoard Manet, adjusted the character in the original painting, and added more drama, something which sparked criticism at that time. These criticisms will be discussed…

foundation. While the subject matters of the paintings vary from paradisiacal landscapes to female figures, the constant interaction between verticality and horizontality, portrait and landscape, subject and object is coherently recognized throughout. Her work is not only visually idyllic, but also approachable due to its quality of comfortability. The composition of the subject matters in the paintings is reinforced by the placement and distribution of the paintings inside the gallery space,…