Decorative arts

Portrait painting thrived in the Netherlands with the increase in production driven by interest in the idea of personhood and the definition of the individual self. Portraits help document the development of a personal identity as it connects factors like marital status, class, and profession. A common portrait genre produced during the seventeenth century portrays their subjects with an impassive demeanor with little vigor. At first, these paintings may be evaluated as lacking “personality” or…

The Imposter (2012, Bart Layton) is a stimulating documentary that expresses the account of Frédéric Bourdin, a 23 year old man from Spain, who was deprived of a joyous childhood, and allocates his time to stealing the identity of minors, including Nicholas Barclay, a 13 year old boy, who disappeared in 1994. Frédéric Bourdin successfully swindles Nicholas’ family into undoubtedly believing he is their missing teenage boy, despite Frédéric appearing entirely different from Nicholas and having a…

Roaming the many galleries and halls of the Detroit Institute of art I found myself overwhelmed at the sheer number of paintings and styles. I thought to myself that I wouldn’t be able to select just one piece to focus on. I held that thought as I passed by the self portrait of Vincent van Gogh and the Elenor of Toledo and countless more. With nothing really speaking to me in the way I would have hoped, I began to think I would have to settle. Rounding a corner found myself in the American…

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.(John Wooden). Visiting Both beautiful museums “ The Morgan Conservatory for Papermaking” , “Zygote Press” was amazing. Definitely an experience that will always be remember. Just walking into The Morgan it just influence you to want to come up with…

I really enjoyed visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Downtown Houston, every panting was different many caught my attention, but the one that attracted me the most was the art piece Marsh Sunset made by Martin Johnson Heade, there was so much detail to is and I just couldn’t stop staring at the natural beauty of the landscape. When you drive past landscapes while on a road trip, sometimes no one puts in much thought into the beauty because it's there and the idea of it disappearing never comes…

through time that man may have carved this as a symbol of what the idea woman may have looked. This structure of this piece gives me the idea of independence. I believe that this art piece is open to a lot of interpretations. I plan to structure this intriguing topic starting off talking about the beginnings of this Prehistoric art piece as well as the appearance and fertility, also the environment she might have lived in. The middle of this piece will examine in depth of how this piece is…

The first painting I have picked is Rachel Wieland, “The Healing Power of Water” in the Art Gallery in Bergen Community college. Wieland created a landscape painting, 20x16, in the early 2000’s. A piece that has rough paint structure to reflect its power of healing, not only the water, but the leaves on the water as well. It’s rough paint structure looks a lot like Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889. The painting being all Cool Colors, many being different sizes than each other. Having the…

way and the reality expressed in their art did, in fact, inspire many other artists. Whether reality was seen as Surrealist, abstract-like, or a way to bring insignificant items to an obscure size, Claes Oldenburg, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Salvador Dali each effected a plethora of generations of artists. The most famous artist of the Surrealism movement was the Spaniard Salvador Dali. His paintings appear to be illogical and sexual. A unique part of Dali's art refers to events from his childhood…

Shatori DePonte Cabison 12/16/14 Eng 256-WI Karyn Sims Final Essay #1 Humanity in literature In literature an artist can express anything they want, and that right there is the beauty of literature. There are endless amount of topics or themes an artist can write about in any type or form of literature. Literature gives us the opportunity to express through our words and thoughts. Language is used in literature and language contains many figures of speech to spice things up and make it more…

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "Peasant Wedding" depicts one of the most joyous times in a person's life: their wedding day. This work has a spin on it though It shows this joyous occasion from the standpoint of a poor, poverty ridden peasant that does not have as much as others. Even though they are poor, they all look extremely happy with what they have. The original painting is done with oil paint on a wooden panel, which became popular about one hundred sixty years earlier. The artist…