Denver Art Museum

The Starry night by Anne Sexton is a lot deeper than you might think when you first read it. To really understand the way Sexton writes you must first know more about her back story. It explains in the beginning that she was a troubled housewife that later committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. IN which, If you know anything about Van Gogh (The artist of the painting Sexton writes about) her death is similar to how he also committed suicide. This poem is both simple and complex due to…

Art can take the form of many styles and still accurately depict the time or the subject that the artist had wanted to create. Although very different in style, both Ernest Withers’ “Sanitation Workers Assemble in front of Clayborn Temple for a Solidarity March, Memphis, TN, March 28, 1968” and Beauford Delaney’s “Can Fire in the Park” are authentic to the time, place, and artist. Withers’ art takes form as a gelatin silver print, a black and white photograph of several hundred black men gather…

Starry Night and Number One Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Jackson Pollock's Number One are two very well known paintings in the art world. Both of these pieces were painted by iconic artists who have impacted the arts, and essentially made it into what society knows it as today. Both Van Gogh and Pollock are admirable artists, especially for breaking the norms of their times with their abstract techniques. Both Starry Night and Number One were created in the 1800-1900’s time frame,…

A Comparison of Two Statues Art has many forms. One popular form of art created in ancient times were statues. A statue, as defined by Merriam-Webster (n.d.) as “a three-dimensional representation usually of a person, animal, or mythical being that is produced by sculpturing, modeling, or casting.” Cultures around the world have created statues for many different reasons. Here we will examine two ancient statues, The Royal Aquaintences Memi and Sebu, from ancient Egypt, and the Statue of…

of Japanese art and aesthetics on the Western culture. Japonisme is specifically used when referring to the Japanese influence on European art. Japanese art influenced many European artists, including, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Ranson. Ukiyo-e prints reached Europe in the 1800s. In Europe they became a source of inspiration for many impressionist painters. During the 1800s in France, there were exhibitions of Ukiyo-e art and it resulted in the growing popularity of Japanese style art all…

neo-impressionism flourished and the primary medium used was canvas on oil. The Starry Night follows that trend by being a canvas on oil painting with a typical size 29 by 36 inches. I feel highly gratified to have seen this famous painting in person at Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. Today this work of Van Gogh is receiving the great attention the artist never enjoyed in his short life. The Starry Night at a cost of $100 million is worth a fortune. He would probably not have known what to…

In Emily Carr’s oil on canvas painting, Big Raven, the painter designs a breathtaking image of a raven sitting on a hill. Although it is wrong to compare this piece to an Italian or Northern Renaissance painting as they have completely different styles, the lighting and composition used in Big Raven resemble the artwork of that period in respect to having a sense of three-dimensionality and realism. To accomplish such rendering, the use of a consistent light source in the scene is crucial to…

to the darker spots in the painting to see all of the details. However good Ruisdael was at clouds and trees, he was better still at what he observed, rather than scenes he imagined (Lambirth, 2006). After visiting the Minnesota Institute of Art museum I concluded the lighting of the environment around…

in the background and the man in the center of the painting narrating what he has been going through or what he plans to do next. Hopper does a great job of depicting the era through the look of the buildings and the peoples’ style of clothing. This art piece stands out to me because of the sense of loneliness it conveys. The lack of people in the painting and the overall darkness of the environment give the feeling that these few individuals are the only ones still awake in the city. Hopper…

I think the scream is a great painting overall. I wanted to do Van Gogh’s Starry Night, but realized that wasn’t an option after reading the paper requirements since we looked at it in class. I was going to go for another Van Gogh painting, but when I looked up his name I found The Scream and went for that one. One thing that really brings the piece together is the lines. They definitely lead your eye all around the paper. You start focusing in on the face and then the blue lines of the river…