History of painting

design. Rodchenko brought with him abstraction conventions, line as a structural element and the innovation of art to having a practical application in everyday life. Starting in 1910 with the School of Arts in Kazan, Rodchenko first emerged with painting (Karginov 9). In terms of influences, Rodchenko had a diversity of movements, people and personalities alike. It was movements such as Art Nouveau and Futurism - from Russian avant-garde - that helped start his work in abstraction (Karginov…

Jackson Pollock was an abstract artist whose paintings have a deeper meaning than they seem to have. Everything he put on a canvas represented a form of expression whether through chalk or paint splatters. It was a way for him to be vulnerable and put his thoughts into a body of work. Pollock was a fan of John Cage’s music, because Cage too was pushing normal artistic views. Cage was introduced to the idea of Abstract Expressionism by an exhibit by Mark Tobey. He realized that art could just…

Born in 1967, Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic contemporary artist whose works have been recognised and exhibited worldwide. Growing up in Copenhagen with separated Icelandic parents, he showed interest in art from a young age, following his artist father to their family home in Iceland each summer. Eliasson had his first solo show very young, at 15, exhibiting drawings at a small gallery in Denmark. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1989 to 1995, and since then has had…

new ways of representing nature. The paintings "Rocks in the Forest" and "The Artist's Garden at Giverny" represent the artist's lives by their use of different shades of colors; however, they share rough, unfinished textures and both vertical and curved lines. "Rocks in the Forest" render the shapes with passages of subtly varied colors, such as green, blue, and purple tints with an accent of golden sunlight. One of the similarities between these two paintings are the rough, unfinished…

When researching Vanitas, I found that I really liked the paintings and pictures using flowers and animals alongside skulls. It represents life and beauty along with death. I found an artist called Harmen Steenwyck, who used mainly fruit and sometimes flowers in their work and I really like it. Steenwyck also uses skulls, old books, shells, with occasional animals and fish. Harmen Steenwyck, was a Dutch painter of still life, notably fruit. He was born in Delft, in 1612, in the Netherlands.…

was a pioneer in portraiture and genre painting. This paper examines the events and paintings that advanced her career and prominence. Sofonisba Anguissola, born into a noble family in Cremona, was not the daughter of an artist, unlike most female painters at that time. However, through the encouragement of her father, Anguissola received a well-rounded humanistic education and was encouraged to pursue a career in literature, music, and especially painting. By 14 years old Anguissola was…

discovered that the dark palette he had developed before, was now out of style. He started using more color, applying the paint with thick, bold brushstrokes, and painted everyday things that were around him and that he saw. Van Gogh produced fourteen paintings of orchards in less than a month. This piece in particular is apart of a triptych. In the pieces he uses a lighter palette of paint than what he was used to. Van Gogh is known for his pointillism technique but in this work he is using a…

us all-his paintings. More than a century has passed since he gave our world one of his masterpieces, The Starry Night. He painted it in Saint Remy, France in June 1889. Gogh, as every other artist, is a product of his time. A time when the style of neo-impressionism flourished and the primary medium used was canvas on oil. The Starry Night follows that trend by being a canvas on oil painting with a typical size 29 by 36 inches. I feel highly gratified to have seen this famous painting in…

sent him to Verrocchio’s workshop in Florence. Leonardo would often spend time with scholars to get answers and understanding in mathematics, astronomy, botany and anatomy. This knowledge helped him achieve what he hoped to depict in his work; painting as the eye sees it (Balch &…

While at the Carnegie museum I saw a couple of paintings that caught my eye and made me take a deeper look at them. The very first painting that did this was Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Leonard, Jerome, John the Baptist, and Francis. This painting is by Nicolo di Maestro Antonio d’Ancona. It caught my eye because even though it was created in during the Renaissance; it still has a lot of details, beautiful colors, and meaning. The throne that Madonna is sitting on, and the entire…