Claude Monet

In the nineteenth century the Royal Academies of Art in France and England were significant art societies in Europe. The schools held annual or semi-annual exhibitions, where artists could display their work to gain critical notice, known as the Salon. The Salon was run by the art academies, as a result the art that was selected to be shown had the technique and style that was taught there and nothing else. Edouard Manet was one of several artists at the time that challenged the academic…

My work explores the relationship between what artist sees and what the artist creates. My work is my interpretation of an eye of a lioness. It reproduces a close up image of a lioness’ eye as a small part of a portrait of a lioness. In my work, I created what I saw without focusing in on the details. There is no symbolism behind my work; it is just an oil pastel of an eye of a lioness. By visiting The Metropolitan Museum of Art online, I was inspired by the artwork of Georgia O’Keeffe. My…

Intentions and Interpretations Cézanne’s painting of the bathers influenced the representation of the nude people during the Renaissance.The abstract nude females represent the Large Bathers, giving the painting tension and density. The scene shows figures of different shapes and sizes in a variety of forms. The triangle shape brings the viewers attention to focus on only the lake, trees and the small figures in the background. The use of blue and green tones in the background bring an overall…

Susan Derges was born in London in the year of 1955. All of her work is mostly visual metaphors. She captures the relationship between nature and self. In one article it said the, “she endeavors to capture both visible and invisible scientific and natural processes. The physical appearance of sound, the evolution of frogspawn or the reflection of the moon and start on water.” Most of her famous work is her capturing water that goes into river and shorelines. Lately she works on photographs that…

In the piece “Autorretrato en el taller (Self-portrait in the Studio)” by Francisco de Goya, the artist depicts himself in a Romantic style of painting. The lighting is hazing and alludes to being naturally lit, due to it coming in from the window. It continues to call attention to the illusion of painting by the brush strokes being visible on the canvas. This incites the idea of self awareness of the artist and understanding that a painting is not a reflection of real life but an artifice. The…

Konstantin Dimopoulos’ “The Blue Trees” is what is known as environmental art. Like “land art” or “earthworks”, environmental art makes use of nature to create nondestructive art. “The Blue Trees” is at first a little underwhelming, after all, at its core it is literally just a tree painted blue. But as I have come to understand, it is actually an ongoing project with an important message. The formal elements of “The Blue Trees” did not seem to be too complex. The color used to paint the trees…

Born in 1867, Pierre Bonnard was a French artist with a unique style that flourished from his interactions with some of the most influential artists of the time. Bonnard developed as an artist during the Post Impressionist movement (1886-1905), which influenced his aesthetic in painting and printmaking. His painting, After the Shower, completed in 1914, is currently exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of their Modern Exhibition. This composition was completed shortly after the…

The extensive collection of impressionist paintings and post-impressionists, the largest outside of the Louvre in Paris. It is so powerful, it could stay there for hours. It is located between the presentations more significant of the paintings and sculptures European. It is including more than 3,500 works from the twelfth century until the twentieth century A sunday afternoon on the island of la Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat is the most famous piece in the collection of the Art Institute…

Jean-Victor Bertin is a “French painter of historical landscapes” and a former pupil of Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. Bertin went to Royal Academy of Painting in Paris as a history painting student studying under Gabriel-FFrancoisDoyen for three years. When the classes became too difficult and demanding, Bertin switched to paysage historique. This type of portrait takes landscape painting and blends a heroic view to give charm to the genre. Artist were also attracted to this style of oiled…

reflections blur into one. The pinks, blues, reds, yellows, oranges, purples, and browns blend together to create a symphony of colors. There is a stigmata in the Lili pad brush strokes and a legato in the lines of seaweed and willow branches. Claude Monet captures a fluid motion of an impressionist in his painting of the Water Lilies. He mesmerizes his viewers with a flat plane of space and depth. When beholding Monet’s paused glimpse of time in real life versus a reproduction, one…