History of painting

is a big part of its worth as our desire for authenticity is a central part of contemporary culture. Authenticity refers to “the essence of all that is transmissible from its beginning, ranging from its substantive duration to its testimony to the history which it has experienced” (Benjamin, 1969). In essence, authenticity is linked to the moral authority of the creator and to the fact that it was made by hand, not mechanically reproduced. Banksy’s view on authenticity looks more deeply at the…

Baroque time period in 1610-1611. The painting itself is fifteen feet in height and twenty-one feet in width (Pritchard). Rubens created the painting using oil paint, specifically oil paint on wood (Pritchard). Prior to the destruction of the church, the Elevation of the Cross was originally located at the Church of St. Walburga in Antwerp (Pritchard). Today, the painting is located at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp (Pritchard). Within that Cathedral, the painting functions as an…

as Japonisme) and it is evident in his most famous work, Starry Night. (http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/508/Starry-Night.html) Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night, oil on canvas, on June of 1889 while he was in a mental asylum in Saint- Rémy, France being treated for his erratic behavior. He is said to have painted the scene from memory. Starry Night is a Japonisme painting due to its bright hues-blue, yellow, white, and black. The yellow stars complement the blue sky and the…

The Celts love of ostentatious display extended beyond jewellery and weaponry, with more mundane articles like drinking vessels, cauldrons and even fire dogs being heavily decorated. Not only did the Celts use precious metals to create their artefacts, they also made use of glass to create beautiful objects. Craft workers would melt and twist different coloured strands, to make jewel-like beads similar to the Murano glass we are familiar with today and probably crafted using techniques we…

Joan Mitchell’s Chamonix 1962 painting appears to be a mess at first glance; paint violently pushed across canvas, no focal point and seemingly just no point to this piece. However, by giving a name to this abstract mess, we are able to begin to use our imagination to begin to see shapes take form to see that Mitchell has made an abstraction of a French mountain and it is our job as a viewer to use our minds to make a story of her canvas. Mitchell’s 200 by 217.2cm canvas overtakes your vision…

immense collaborative paintings.(p.218, Art in China) The inscription on the top of the left is a sentence from the poem which named “Ode to Snow”. The picture is also horizontal division. The foreground is the mountains covered with lofty and strong pine trees, which represented the Chinese is dedicated to survive like pine. The montains and pines only covered one-third of the…

Compare and Contrast Essay The two works of art that I have chosen to compare and contrast had me worried at first. I wondered if there were enough things to compare between the two. However, after evaluating Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s Samurai Attacks Woman and Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s self portrait, I have come to find that they share many things in common; from medium to colour, I will discuss the vast array of contrasts as well as similarities. It helps first to describe the two pieces. The first…

models in the 14th to 16th centuries. His actual name is “Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi”. Botticelli was born in 1445 in the city of Florence. He went to the Florentine school to learn painting. His master was Fra Filippo Lippi, who was influenced…

it’s hard to focus on any single spot of the mural as distinct and separate. It seems the selection of his colors was indeed intended to not try and represent the reality of the situation, but the emotions associated with it. Another aspect of the painting that I think classifies it as Expressionist is the distortion of the…

Pop art is a style of art that enhances objects and figures by using bright colors to extenuate the focus points in the piece. There were many great artist's in this era such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Andy Warhol is famously known for painting the Campbell's Soup can but he didn't stop there, he created some of the most famous pieces of pop art today. Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh in 1928, he was the youngest of three siblings. Growing up he attended free art classes at the…