History of painting

Describing the artwork Title: The blue rider – 1903 Artist: Kandinsky Date: 1903 Medium: Oil on cardboard Size: 55 x 65 cm Created: the blue rider (German expression) - The artwork to be analysed in this essay is blue rider by Kandinsky, it was created by using oil on cardboard in 1903. - Created in a German expression style this artwork depicts landscape. - Kandinsky has selected to place the main subject in the right hand side. Analyse the technique used - The blue rider has been…

Art Work Analysis Christian world by Andrew Wyeth is one of the famous work of art in the American History. The art is conveyed through a drawing that depicts the religious and social status of the people during that particular age. In essence, Christian World is a picture art that was drawn in the year 1948. The medium of the modern art acquired the land scape painting from the Macbeth Gallery. Nevertheless, the art is available for public view and analysis at the Museum of Modern Art in the…

Yeyenne Telisme ARH2000 Reading Response 1 The word “art” means different things to different people. Art is one of many words that its definition varies throughout cultures and people. I might interpret art as something so simple as a painting but another might be able to define that term due to their experience or studies of art. This connects to the course because in the same sense that, what the Western culture might consider to be art can be seen as just another object or some “tool” to…

report on Michael Kenna. Michael Kenna was born in Widnes, England in 1953 and he specialized in artistic landscape photos. He was one of 5 children born into a working class home. He picked up his passion at Banbury school of the art where he began painting and then picked up photography later on. Michael Kenna moved to San Fransisco in 1977 where he since has lived to this day. He is best known for long exposure, artistic, black and white, landscape photos. In fact he has been known to shoot…

J., 1975. [Work at Callanish during Edinburgh Arts Journey]. From Bellman, D. & Richard Demarco Gallery, 1976, and Richard Demarco Gallery,1975. Both books Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland. On the walls are a number of twentieth-century paintings, selected to give the visitor the sense of moving through the Scottish landscape. They include John Maclean’s Landfall, (1993), John Houston’s Evening Sky over the Bass Rock (1963) and a series of William Turnbull’s abstracts. Fig. 46…

Art is great in the sense that no matter how plain or extraordinary a piece may be, it will always develop differently in each person’s mind. A painting has the ability to evoke different thoughts and feelings among those who view it. With that in mind, let’s begin. I chose to interpret, analyze, and judge a great piece of artwork currently hanging on the Ford Center in Downtown Evansville. That piece is called Vibrant River by Roger Stoller. This 41’ x 15’ abstract piece was designed out of…

Hieronymus Bosch (2p minimum) introduction Exploring the concept of the Christian Worldview- Hieronymus Bosch and his rather infamous triptych ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights. We misunderstand the artist if we fail to look past his grotesque beasts and monsters biography real name was Jeroen van Aken and in Spain, he is known as “El Bosco”. Bosch was a Dutch painter of the 15th-16th century Little is known about the life of this Early Netherlandish Renaissance artist, but we do know that both…

Adolph Fredrick Reinhardt was an American abstract artist, writer, critic and educator. He studied art history under Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University, New York (1931–35), and painting with Carl Holty and Francis Criss at the American Artists School (1936–37). He also studied at the National Academy of Design with Karl Anderson in 1936, worked for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (1936–39), and was a member (1937–47) of the American Abstract Artists group. Reinhardt…

You’ve probably seen some of these paintings before. They’re detailed, realistic and idealized portrayals of the American wilderness that are not only an excellent look into 1850s America but a useful tool for interpreting contemporary culture. The Hudson River school is an art movement that emerged in the mid 19th century. It is named for its origin in the Hudson River Valley area of New York but it quickly built a presence across all of New England. The location of the movement is central to…

I had to understand why Seurat used such a difficult technique for his work. I then came upon the theory that perhaps he wanted to produce a deeper sense of life in his paintings. All things in the world are composed of millions of cells, and these cells create objects, color, and everything that practically exists. I imagine that Seurat's motive was to utilize this scientific law in his work to give an atmosphere of life, texture, and movement in the scenes that he…