Impressionism

Central Park painted by Adolf Dehn in 1942 using watercolor on paper, light colors in the front of the painting caught my eye when I was examining the photos. Adolf Dehn uses light colors such as a light green and people strolling through the park to portray the light side of New York City which is in the back of the painting with dark and grey colors with cloudy skies. In the center of the painting Dehn uses a white and light green mixture, suggesting the calmness of the painting. There are…

The general conception of visual realism that I believe best suits Vermeer’s The Concert and The Music Lesson and Bierstadt’s Yosemite Valley, would be the use of pictorial depth cues to portray visual realism. Both painters used pictorial depth cues to create a strong sense of visual realism that helped draw fascination into their paintings. Without the use of the pictorial depth cues, the paintings would not have appeared as if they were realistic and definitely would not have been questioned…

He had an certain aspects of what it means to be an artist. I expect a painter to paint something to show expressive gesture. I always look at paining that I a tendency to create feelings, emotions, nature, or beauty. I simply to not see what Robert Motherwell was portraying. Most of his painting is nothing but a collage feature, simply with shapes, abstract shapes and/or gestural brushstrokes , to me of-course. However there’s some of his painting that may had a contemporary event with…

Even though Georges de Feure, initially Georges Joseph Van Sluijters, can be considered as an artist who had played a major role in the development of French art between 1980 and 1905, a relatively large piece of information about both private life and his career remain unknown. He was born on 6th of November, 1969 in Paris, and had a more or less artistic background: a son of a Dutch architect, Jan Hendrick van Sluijters, and a Belgian mother, whose name is not stated in any of the source.…

Ayodeji Elusoji Museum paper Prof. Denize Lorenz 11/17/15 My Visit to The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts. On my visit I quietness at the premises, then I took some pictures outside the museum after which I proceeded to the entrance into the museum. I met a lady at the desk who welcomed me; I approached her, and relate to her my mission. The gallery attendant walked me through the highlights of the exhibition. Initially, I was told not to enter into the Rebecca Cole…

Photography dates back to 1839 as a result of the camera obscura. The camera obscura was a photographic medium that captured beautiful pictures, drawings, objects, still life and any views. Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot invented separate processes in London and Paris called the daguerreotype and the calotype. They both implemented the camera obscura to make their inventions. Both Daguerre and Talbot were passionate about and envisioned reproducing nature into…

Van Gogh has suffered through many things but still believed in himself that he would make it through and sell his paintings that he thought inspired the world around him. These two characteristics, abundant and enthusiasm helped him begin on how to be an artist. Also he switched from place to place and carried his work and confidence in his mind. His mental health and body damage helped him reveal some masterpieces that he thought weren’t that good and . Van Gogh went through so many things…

For my third museum visit I went to the museum of fine arts in St. Petersburg on the 21st of April. This museum had everything from classical antiquity sculptures to contemporary abstract art. The piece that I am going to discuss in detail is titled Encroachment and was painted by Jay Hall Connaway. When first looking at this oil painting, aspects of the scenery stand out most. The painting depicts waves crashing into rocks along the coastline. In particular, there is one wave that is in the…

Before writing this post, I read an article about abstract art discussing Piet Mondrian views on art. Mondrian was involved in the De Stijl art movement, an art style focused on isolating a single visual style that would appropriate to all aspects of modern life. The style resulted in implementing geometric blocks of primary colors and vertical and horizontal lines. Mondrian's art theories greatly affected his abstract art style & his quote about abstract art stuck out to me when looking at this…

Have you ever seen the beautiful painting titled Water Lilies painted by the famous Claude Monet? If you haven’t, it’s a really great masterpiece and you should totally check it out at the Art Institute of Chicago! Claude Monet was a famous French artist who was a significant individual during the Impressionist movement. The Impressionist movement dealt with “capturing light and natural forms through art.” Like other impressionist artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and…