Chinese painting

One of her paintings simply titled “Hope” gives a feeling of an optimistic future. The painting media is oil on canvas. The painting presents child with her back to us. She is wearing a white dress with red and blue flowers, as she seems to be walking away slowly. She is surrounded by children drawings floating all around…

Demoiselles d’Avignon was a large oil painting painted by Pablo Picasso in 1907. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon essentially means the Ladies of Avignon. It took Picasso seven sketches in order to get his masterpiece to perfection. Pablo at the beginning stages of sketching had been deciding whether to incorporate males or females but he settled on females. This painting portrays five naked female prostitutes in a brothel (modern day strip club).The women in the painting have masks on their face that…

One aspect that could have hampered his growing popularity, is that his art did not follow current social issues that shaped the time. In the 1980’s and 90’s was a decade of change in the art world. There was a rise in cultural inequalities that was expressed with different medium and style. Along with this, there was the growing media exposure and the technology of the Internet (Allenchey). Lots of changes of social issues and media technical developments that Chia’s artwork did not confront.…

disregard of representing different people and cultures to a Western society. Women are sculpted holding flowers and appearing serene and unaffected as women were supposed be. In the sculpture, they are taking care of children which shows the belief that women must be motherly and calm. In the center plaque, perhaps one of the most troubling aspects, is Christopher Columbus. The decision to place him in the center of the sculpture, indicates the importance of his presence and may signify that he…

The Image I chose is a black and white photograph created by Edward Weston titled “Cabbage Leaf”. Edward was a photographer who started taking photos at the age of sixteen when he was given his first camera. His Artwork is comprised of real people, places and things in photographs. Edward was very talented at photographing an object and putting it in a new perspective to the viewer of his photos. He gave objects in his photos passion and emotions that they were not originally associated with.…

Sieste” (Millet, Jean Francoise, and “La Sieste”) and “Siesta” (Van Gogh, Vincent, and “Siesta”) illustrate an assumed couple resting after a long day’s work, however the emotional tones depicted by the artists are distinctly different. Millet’s painting “La Sieste” seems to display a more distressed or uneasy feeling whereas Van Goughs piece “Siesta” appears to be a more pleasant slumber. Millet’s use of colors and line work undeniably portrays a harsher and more realistic view of how an…

the ground that the British happened to slaughter. The picture has a much deeper meaning than just another painting it develops the understanding in others that this was one of the main events that had lead up to the war. The dead bodies on the ground was only the beginning of many more to come that is also why I found that detail of the painting very significant. The chaos that this painting seems to portray is also another given example of the chaos that was soon to come with the beginning of…

Andy Warhol was a successful ad and magazine illustrator who became a leading artist of the pop art movement in the 1960’s. Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was always a very quiet and people thought of him as an introvert. Throughout his lifetime, he went into a wide variety of performing arts, including filmmaking, video installation, and writing. He also controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Andy Warhol died at the age…

In 2010 Charles Spitzack graduated from Cornish College of the Art in Seattle, Washington with an emphasis on Print Arts and Drawing. Originally from Minnesota he was raised in a family with carpentry skills, this knowledge influences his technique in woodblock and extends to building his own frames for his work. Spitzack primarily works in woodblock, and this medium is what is represented in his gallery shows. He has had multiple solo exhibitions as well as group exhibitions, mainly in…

material, the author believes that the painting could not be painted by Rembrandt, which is contradicted by the following lecture. The speaker claims that the painting is actually a work by Rembrandt. According to the reading material, the first piece of evidence is that the woman's fur collar doesn't match with her status. However, the speaker suggests that the wrong part of the painting was added by someone else about a hundred years after the original painting. The additional part was for…