German Expressionism

Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853. He was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. “He was named after his grandfather and stillborn brother who died a year earlier than Van Gogh’s birth” (Riter). He was the oldest child of Theodorus van Gogh, which was a pastor in the Dutch Reformed Community, and his mother was Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Gogh grew up in a very religious family, and his father was a very strict man. “His father was a quiet, dignified, ordinary man, from whom Gogh inherited…

The artist of The Art Critic, Norman Rockwell, depicts the human flaw of always focusing on the details and neglecting the rest of the picture. In this specific artwork, a young artist is studying a locket on a painting of a lady who seems surprised by his attention. There are three men as a painting on his right side looking as if they are jealous or concerned about what he is doing with the magnify glass. These are the few things that can be seen from the first glance of the painting. The…

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…

If Jean-Michel Basquiat were alive today, he would be 54 years old; a respective artist sitting comfortably in mid-career, perhaps forgotten, perhaps looking forward to a retrospective or two. Would he have developed his early style, or would he still be producing impulsive, volatile drawings and paintings he did in the 1980s? Who could predict? Basquiat dominated the New York art game in the early 1980s, however, in 1988, leaving more than 1,000 reputable paintings behind him, he overdosed on…

Albert Namatjira (b. 1902) was an Indigenous Australian artist from the Northern Territory, he initially began by creating artwork that was inspired by his cultural heritage and places of his tribe (Aranda). Namatjira uses watercolors to create a raw landscape of rural Australia. Namatjira initially painted to sell his artworks as an income for his growing family but in the year 1934 people from Melbourne came to see his work and within two years led to Namatjira’s artwork being exhibited and…

Edouard Manet was considered to be the most controversial artist in Paris in the 1860’s because he was the most important predecessor of Impressionim in French art. Although he studied with an academic master, he walked away from the tradition teachings to an update in the art of the Old Masters (Veronese, Válzquez, and Rembrandt) by refusing paintings with a dose of realm inherited from Gustave Courbet. The revolutionary of Manet works is that he would often flattened out the figures in his…

Art during the 1800s represented reality and detail. Artists were concerned with the fine finishing and details of the subjects they painted. Salons had conservative juries who screened and approved artwork that could be displayed for the public. In Paris, artists like Édouard Manet and Claude Monet would begin to challenge the status quo of art during the1860s. They influenced art in a movement that would be called impressionism. Impressionist wanted to capture the changes in the…

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) was founded in 1805 by painter and scientist Charles Wilson Peale, sculptor William Rush, and other artists and business leaders. They sought to "promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts, in the United States of America, by… exciting the efforts of artists, gradually to unfold, enlighten, and invigorate the talents of our Countrymen.” As a museum and school, PAFA’s mission is to promote the transformative power of art and art making, and inspire…

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” This popular quote means that a picture can tell a story just as well as a large amount of text. Painters try to convey a message through their artwork. Salvador Dali is a better painter than Claude Monet because the style of his art was more relatable to the people, his artwork is more popular and different, and he had more meaning behind his artwork. Salvador Dali tried to connect with the people. He would paint his feelings and many people could connect…

The artist of the painting I've chosen to analyze is by Hans Cranach. Hans’ was born around 1513 and is the oldest son of Lucas Cranach the Elder. He worked with his dad in his workshop and was also being trained by his father when he was younger. By 1527 Hans was assembling his creations of work but by that time it was difficult to have his own work when it was being compared to his father's.Hans valuable paintings were Portrait of a bearded Man and Hercules at the Court of Omphale, in which he…