History of painting

this in is Vincent van Gogh’s canvas painting Bridge in the Rain. In 1886 Van Gogh moved to Paris and was introduced to Japonism and ukiyo-e because his brother ran an art gallery and he lived next to one. He was fascinated with the designs, colors, and compositions of the artwork he had seen in Japonisme work and started collecting ukiyo-e prints. In 1887, he was inspired by a Japanese landscape painter, Utagawa Hiroshige, and started creating his oil painting. This makes his piece a form of…

Artist of the time, like Mary Cassatt, were hindered. This impressionist could work alongside Edgar Degas, possibly to an advantage to her work, looking to one another for inspiration. The life of artwork by choice was a characteristic that gave Cassatt an option to paint more controversially, as well as being backed by a well-known impressionist of the time, allowing works such as Modern Woman to be created in spirit of herself (Sharp, Kevin, Clarke, 1998) One of Cassatt’s most controversial…

world’s most influential American painters. He started his art career when he was only eighteen years old. He studied with countless numbers of well-known artists in his lifetime. From the Public Works Project in which he developed his most famous paintings, to being a part of the abstract expressionism art movement, Jackson Pollock was truly a talented and smart young man who got mixed up in something that eventually took his life. Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming to LeRoy Pollock and Stella…

Robert Rauschenberg was a remarkable contemporary artist whose art style makes the name “Andy Warhol” and the like come to mind, developing artwork at similar time frames and sharing similar techniques. Unlike traditional popular culture artists, Rauschenberg created prints with a hybrid technique of photography, printmaking, and papermaking. He refers to his artwork as combines, because of the three dimensional effect observed when viewing these unique prints. Rauschenberg is classified mainly…

Strapaese group. Masaccio’s influence can be seen in the sombre coloring in most of Carlo’s works. Specifically, this sombreness can be seen in Jolts of a Cab. Giorgio Morandi made many paintings of subtle depictions of subjects that appear to be simple. In Still Life, Carlo shows this influence by painting a jug, a bowl, and a knife. All three are mundane objects, but have been argued to have deeper implications. Metaphysical art has a dreamlike quality and sharp contrasts between shadow…

Art is a very emotional entity both inspired and created by feeling. Something moves the painter and sculptor to transform the perspectives of their minds’ eye into something tangible and visible. With that same feeling, designers of the landscape, interiors, structures, fashion, transportation, cities and government have been [at least initially] moved by ideals and passion. The assigned bulleted manifestos and pointed proclamations seemed to carry an evolutionary theme. This theme is not…

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki's work, “In Praise of Shadows”, is an eloquent commentary on Japanese aesthetics. He describes the beauty in Japanese architecture, pottery, food, physical characteristics and many other details and traditions that shape his country. As the author was writing his book, Japan was beginning to adopt Western technology and values. He emphasizes the introduction of electric lights; how their harsh brightness clashed with the soft shadows and the elemental darkness that created…

Neo-Expressionist art is in the league of Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and other innovative art legends. His character seduced and enamored those around him. He even befriended Madonna. An average painting is his lifetime went for $5000- $10,000 at the least and just recently his painting “Untitled” (a skull) painted in 1982 sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s auction in May 2017; this is the 6th most expensive work ever sold at an auction. Only 10 other works have broken the $100…

Pair Four: Senufo Equestrian, wood, (19 century) [Location: British Museum] and Equestrian Portrait of Charlemagne, bronze (9 century) [Location: Louvre, Paris] When art is from two different time period and two different cultures it is thought that the two pieces when compared would not have much in common. However, that is hardly ever the case; they can have similaries in meanings and cultural significance. With the help of the readings from “Icon” and “Art Through the Ages”, along with the…

Stylist Analysis Jackson Pollock the world renowned drip painter is often one of the artists that almost everyone knows on the spot. Cathedral, 1947 is a painting held in the Dallas Museum of Art and was created using enamel and aluminum paint on canvas. Measuring at a 71 1/2 x 35 1/16 inches, this is no small painting. Cathedral, is comprised of organic shapes rather than geometric. The entirety of the work is the product of paint dripping off of a paintbrush. This controlled chaos is…