Expressionism

Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist known for creating bloated, oversized depictions of people, animals and elements of the natural world. Born in Colombia in 1932, Fernando Botero left school to become an artist, displaying his work for the first time in a 1948. His subsequent art, now exhibited in major cities worldwide, concentrates on situational portraiture united by his subjects' proportional exaggeration. I could argue that Fernando Botero is our most renowned artist. This, of course,…

Edouard Manet and Alexandre Cabanel may have both been taught by academic teachers but when it comes to their paintings and techniques they are in two completely different areas of art. Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel is a painting about a biblical story that many people knew compared to Edouard Manet’s The Ragpicker which is a painting of a regular day person that people could walk by on the street without much thought to them. In Edouard Manet’s oil painting The Ragpicker Manet used a…

Summary and Response to “The Thing on the Wall” In the section “The Thing on the Wall” of the book An Introduction to Art, the author teaches us the important factors which determine the successful concentration or focus of our attention on a single painting when we view it in public. He says the first thing we should consider is the lighting and claims that the natural sunlight and artificial light sources differ in intensity. Daylight is generally less bright and goes well with ‘cool…

According to Pablo Picasso’s “Art is a lie” artists reveal truth through lies in their artworks. I plan to prove that his assertion is correct by using the oil painting “The Broken Column”, a Mexican artwork created by artist Frida Kahlo, in 1944. It’s a modernism style painting, a style that developed around the twentieth century. Pablo Picasso’s view of art is a creative way to define how an artist reveals the truth of his/her paintings through lies . He also states that “Through art, we…

Merleau-Ponty describes the painter’s way off being in the world as unique to that of a writer, scientist, philosopher or musician. The act of painting – the physical relation of the painter to the world – is detached from the direct demands of life. Within seeing and painting the painter’s eyes and hands discover a skill to which the painter gives himself over to drawing from the world. Before we go onto investigating the nature of painting, we must first understand what it means for a human…

The painting that I viewed was titled Stepping Stones by Stephanie Faleski. The medium of this painting is oil on canvas measuring approximately 2 feet in both height and width. This is a realistic painting which appears to be in a forest type setting with an opened space. There were several trees placed in the scene showing off their beautiful colors of light and dark green. The trees were very tall, appearing to almost touch the skies if looking up. Some were aligned around a circular light…

The artist David Hockney painted American Collectors in early years in Southern California 1968. He painted acrylic on canvas. American Collectors, it is double portrait of man and woman, who is Fred and Marcia Weisman with their collection of art works. Including a sculpture by Henry Moore and William Turnbull, which are the stack of stones in front of the man, and native American totem pole next to the woman. The woman, Marcia Weisman wears pink long dress with a smile on her face. She stands…

The two paintings are similar in the point that they both have implied depth to a certain degree. Raphael uses the figures in his work to give the appearance of distance between them in the foreground and background. Durand uses scenery in the foreground to make the figures seem as if they are farther back in the painting. Raphael uses one-point perspective, while Durand uses aerial perspective. In The School of Athens, the two men in the middle of the entryway in the background of the painting…

In the documentary film In a Brilliant Light: Van Gogh in Arles, produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984, the life of misunderstood artist Vincent van Gogh is depicted, particularly his works done in Arles, France. The film takes the viewer on an in depth journey of van Gogh’s life highlight points such as his inspirations and specific paintings all the while weaving it into the story that is uniquely the artist’s own. Through the introduction of the artist’s inspirations…

The first time I saw Rembrandt van Rijn, Self- Portrait, 1659, I found I wanted to both, avert my eyes and remain transfixed. In this particular portrait, Rembrandt is fifty-three years old and even though he is a man well into his middle age his gaze remains powerful and gripping.(pg. 90 THTTA) Rembrandt painted himself near a hundred times over his lifetime but I will focus on this particular portrait which shows a Rembrandt in the midst financial ruin after some bad business decisions. (pg.…