Impressionism

Tempera vs. Oil Painting One of the oldest mediums that were used commonly by the artists were tempera and oil paint. Although these materials are used to paint very photo-realistic images, they have many differences. Tempera is mostly used to create a very opaque painting that needs to be made fairly quickly. This painting medium is consists of colored pigments mixed with a binding agent, an egg yolk. Tempera is an incredibly fast drying material and acts as an extremely long lasting method of…

Herdswoman Familiarity: Timelessness in Art. Amidst the many art styles in Western history, the rococo style stands out as one of the most defining styles. As an evolution from the baroque period, rococo paintings have cemented themselves with asymmetry and pastel colors, evoking playful themes as opposed to political themes of the past. Upon visiting the Dallas Museum of Art, I encountered the rococo painting, Landscape with Distant Buildings and a Herdswoman, while perusing the museum’s…

Hayakawa has his own definition of creativity including many factors that some people agree or disagree with. There are different people that society grants as creative but individuals like Hayakawa have their own opinions on if a person is actually creative or not. For example, Van Gogh is a very well known artist and he is just assumed to be creative due to his elaborate paintings and he does meet Hayakawa’s creative criteria. He mainly expressed himself with the use of color in his paintings…

Andre Breton was a prominent French Surrealist poet who was born in France and was known as the founder of the Surrealist movement (Biography.com 1). Andre Breton was thought of as the man who was the influence of the Surrealist movement due to his outstanding work of art and literature during the movement (poets.org 1). Breton found an interest in medicine and pursued medical school while a young man (biography.com 1). Breton has developed his passion at a very young age and very rarely does a…

MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY HOW MY LIFE BEGAN Hey, look there's a pigeon... No l was joking! My name Amos Appendino and this is my story.I was born August 24, 2003 in St.Tropez, France. My mom is Elena Vitale, and my dad is Michele Appendino. I have three grandparents, one from my mom’s side of the family and two from my father’s side of the family. My mom is from Milan and my father is from Turin. I spent all of my childhood in Milan going to BES since I was 3. I love my family and all of my friends…

Museum Paper The High Museum of Art is located in Atlanta and is where the artwork of Alex Katz’s exhibition, entitled “This Is Now” is currently being displayed. The exhibition will be at the museum from June 21-September 6 and has several of Katz’s best paintings that he has done throughout his career. The painting style used by Katz is figurative and flat using imagery to create vivid works of art. Katz’s is known for his flat landscape paintings that are on display in the exhibition, “Katz's…

Albert Cuyp was a Dutch painter who painted the Charming the Animals. As I walked on the second floor in the Dutch room at Yale Art Gallery in New Haven, I saw a beautiful painting hanging against the wall that quickly caught my attention. This is an landscape painting. As you see the painting, you see varieties of different animals and a guy sitting in the middle of the painting. This painting was lent by the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterlo collection. The material used for this painting is the…

An unassuming and genial man with a strong affinity for the land, Macqueen was drawn to the undulating landscape of the Darling Downs and to the coastal region adjoining Moreton Bay which provided the principal subjects for his work. His watercolours are noted for their simplicity, and for their lyrical and decorative qualities. Shape, structure and colour played a dominant role in his art, engendering a bold and dynamic expression which infused vitality into the prevailing academicism of…

Giorgio de Chirico’s painting The Red Tower shows an urbanscape of the typical Italian square with the traditional arcades in shade bordered on both sides, the mysterious box object at the front, the warrior statue with elongated shadow being cut off at the right, the huge red tower at the distant centre, and the farms with natural landscape behind in the background. The whole painting is in dark tone, with only light in the centre focusing viewer’s attention on the red tower and the sculpture.…

1. 1901, Wright, Frank Lloyd, Robie House, American, Architecture. TXT- The house is centered around the fireplace with two horizontal sections on one dominant axis. The horizontal roofs cantilevers out on steel beams that is anchored at the center the chimneys and floor gables set at a right angle to the main axis. Pg 174 CLS- The house is very concrete and extended rooflines, flat fields with geometric decorative design. There are layers to the structure with simplified mass and a open…