Cubism

Dealing mainly with the social issues of the late 20th century, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work is both artistically alluring and bringing to the forefront many of the dualities of the time. Although he had an unfortunately short life and career, Basquiat has left an enormous impact on the world of art. Some of the biggest influences on his artistic style were his relationship with famous artists such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Madonna. Basquiat was also greatly influenced by personal…

Eugene Delacroix, born on april 26 1798, was a French painter who had a lot of influence on Romanticism. He studied art at age 17 and he was mentored by academic painter , Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guerin. He learned from the romantic Landscapist and used dome of their techniques . Early on in his life, he demonstrated the influence that Michelangelo and Peter Paul Rubens, two excellent artist , had on his painting . Delacroix intensely studied Michelangelo’s modeling of figures and the life (or…

William Bouguereau is a French artist who had made this painting for a “ Gift of an Anonymous Lady in memory of her father”. William Bouguereau is a very important artist of his time from 1825-1905, he was part of the official art system. Graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, winner of the prestigious Prixe de Rome, and member of the French Academy, he was also a great favorite on the art market. He had made his paintings from meaning and personal experiences. His sophisticated style and color…

Robert Henri (June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher. He was an organizer of the group known as "The Eight". It was an informal association of artists protesting against the restrictive exhibition of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design. Having travelled to Paris to study at the Academie Julian, he was under the academic realist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. During this period of his life, he came to admire greatly the work of Francois Millet, and…

Humans have constantly been improving what they have already got. To achieve a more perfect version, they go through a number of eras or epochs where they try out different versions. Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter in the 20th century, went through different periods where he drew in a specific colour to see how it affected the painting. He started off with the Blue Period, where he drew mostly blue colours (Pablo Picasso, 2015). This he used for a few years, until he switched to the Rose…

Olympia, is an oil on canvas, approximately 130.5 cm × 190 cm (51.4 in × 74.8 in) painted by Edouard Manet, first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon, current location Musée d 'Orsay in Paris, France. Edouard Manet was the first ever French artist in the nineteenth century to paint modern life, and provocative figures from realism to impressionism. Manet was born on January 23, 1832 in Paris, France and died on April 30, 1883, Paris, France. Manet had created four-hundred and thirty oil paintings,…

Salvador Dali finished The Persistence of Memory in 1931at Port Lligat, north of Barcelona, Spain and housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1934. This painting was a symbol of Dali’s work and defined surrealism, breaking many of the norms previous and unique in its own way. The painting itself reflects a lot on the way Dali viewed a life and giving it a deeper meaning that others may interpret differently. Dali created a three dimensional experience that was never seen before by…

Maya Angelou, a renowned American poet once said ‘We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated’. Being a poet of African descent, she was able to manifest this in her poems by making a connection to Africa and its history. Similarly, David Diop, a contemporary of Angelou was of African descent but he was born and raised in France. Even so, he spent a significant amount of time in West Africa which helped him connect with his mother nation. His works were mainly on political…

Portraits: a comparative essay. The Archibald prize is a famous Australian portrait competition. It as named after JFA and was first awarded in 1921. His aim was to foster portraiture as well as support artists and preserve the memory of great Australians. William Dobell, painted fellow painter and beloved figure of Australian art, Margret Olley; and won in 1948. Margret Olley was also painted a second time by Ben Quilty in 2011, that too won the Archibald prize. Although The two paintings,…

In 1909 Sergei Shchkin, a Russian industrialist, asked Henri Matisse for three large paintings to decorate part of his house (Matisse, Dance I, n.d.). Dance 1 was one of these paintings (Matisse, Dance I, n.d.). Two versions exist of this painting, the initial version, was considered by Matisse as a preparatory sketch and was created in 1909 while the final version has different colors and was finished in 1910. Both versions are considered oil paintings (Matisse, Dance I, n.d.). “Dance 1” has a…