Chinese painting

the time we spent apart, I drew on postcards for her using a variety of styles and subjects. When I went to visit her in America for the first time, I bought three large paintings to put on the wall. They were three about 24"x34" all in different art styles, and among them was one of mine. She had no idea that one the paintings were mine, and yet she was able to tell which one it was. At that moment, I knew that I had found what I've been looking for after so many years. Staying true to my…

country of Alhakere, hence, all her paintings were set in that area of Utopia in the Northern Territory where it is located. Growing up in an Aboriginal community, Kngwarreye learned about dances, dreamtime stories and grew close to the land, her culture and her clan, justifying the inclusion of such in her subject matter. Her career evolved from the painting of ochre on the skin of her relatives to eventually painting with synthetic paint on canvas. When painting her thousands of artworks,…

to Adele by using symbolic language in his portraits. He did two paintings of her, one of which was supposed to be displayed at her wedding. The purpose of this paper is to find out how Gustav Klimt uses symbolism to portray Adele elegance and grace which insinuate at a relationship between them. It also seeks to explore the inspiration and the idea behind Adele’s portrait. He specialized mostly in architectural and landscape painting; he also drew portraits of people. Growing up Klimt main…

This is a prime example of how Klimt was highly influences by symbolism. It has his signature idea of the subjects locked in some sort of embrace. On the right side of the painting there is a mother holding an infant against her bosom in a symbolic gesture of security and protecting. There are flower entwined in the mother’s hair as a symbol of fertility and life. She holds the child in a way that shows unconditional love.…

Angelico would never start a painting without a prayer and could not paint a Crucifixion without tears running down his cheeks. Yet, even in circumstances when the theme is one of death and bloodshed, Fra Angelico tells the tale with “such a naïve sincerity and rare beauty of expression” that the audience forgets the horror of the scene and rather focuses on the martyr’s triumph. Cartwright considers the “Crucifixion and Saints” as one of the most impressive paintings in the world. Instead…

In the painting I chose, you see many different elements of art that come together to form one unified piece. The art I chose to criticize is “Music – Pink and Blue II.” In the painting you see many different colors coming together to form a beautiful piece of art. This painting is an oil painting, with no identifiable shape. The art work is a 35 x 29 1/8. The artist of “Music – Pink and Blue II” is Georgia O’Keeffe. Today, this painting can be found at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.…

Creativity and Artistic ability have always come naturally to me, drawing more than anything else. From childhood it was dream to go to The Art Institute; I would watch the commercials about the pamphlet with the three pictures to draw and just knew that was where I wanted to go. When I was younger drawing was my passion, anything I look at I can put on paper and that's what I wanted to do. But as life happened years went by and I hadn't even attempted to draw anything let alone decide who I…

It is believed that first evidence of artistic activity is a diagonal itching on a stone with a shark tooth, associated to Homo erectus around 500 000 years ago. However the oldest undisputed form of figurative art is a sculptured Venus figurine around 40 000 years ago. A time where human behavior hadn’t yet developed behavioral modernity which consists of abstract thinking and symbolic behavior among other things, yet art found its way. These first forms of art were not pure creation of the…

We experience feeling every minute of our lives. Feelings are part of a person and they are one of the most important components a person has. Arts have taken advantage of feeling and interpreted them into their art work to catch the viewers attention. Arts have made art pieces that create sadness, happiness, excitement, tension and many more. Cory Arcangel, a thirty-seven-year-old that brought nerd’s love of gaming into galleries. He is overthrowing traditional art work with pop-futuristic…

When you talk about proportions we refer to the size relationship between and an object. one of the hardest things that most artists have to face is drawing in proportions when you have to have complete accuracy. It is vitally important in drawings whether your dealing with portraits, landscapes or even realistic drawings it trains the eye to see things as it is. In the process of setting up my blind contouring drawing I realized that it is more complex to focus on the object and have that…