Impressionism

The video begins us with being introduced to Katharina Grosse in her studio in Berlin, Germany. She is seen photographing a poem by Ernst Jandl for a christmas card, and while she talks about how she’d always loved language, she tells us that the moment she learned about painting a new love began. Katharina points out the strong contrast between poetry and paintings. She discusses how while a poem follows “a certain order system” which makes it quite “linear,” painting possesses a certainly more…

The Haywain by John Constable, 1821, is oil painted on canvas and by the size of the painting, it is a large-scale artwork that requires a lot of details. This is landscape image as it discussed on out the textbook. The artist translated and created the painting based on the real world image. The artist used the visual art to present the form to the viewers to perceive through their lense. Landscape are popular in the United States and Europe in the nineteenth century. Landscaping requires a lot…

Final Art Analysis: The Course of Empire From beginning to end: Savage State, Pastoral State, Consummation, Destruction, Desolation. Art Analysis What category of art does this fall under? How can you tell? This piece of art falls under the category of a painting, or an oil on canvas painting. The way I can tell that these works are paintings is every source describes it as so. You can also tell by the amount of detail and the way it has a fade. This artwork is a series, however, with The…

Eugéne Delacroix was born on April 26 in Charenton, France in the year of 1798. He lived for 65 years before he died on August 13, 1863. He didn’t grow up with a lot of money and his painting career never paid him a well enough. He also tended to try and push the boundaries in some of his paintings, more so in his religious pieces. He was a romanticism artist. The romanticism style was an emphasis on emotion and drama of the subject that was depicted in the painting. He didn’t start out in the…

Cataract 3 Bridget Riley’s painting Cataract 3 plays with the viewers vision. Cataract 3 is a 88.5 x 87.5 inches which is approximately the size of a double glass sliding door. Riley was widely know for painting in black and white until 1967, the year Cataract 3 was created. This piece is considered Op Art because it creates an optical sensation of movement through the manipulation and reposition of lines. Riley uses both horizontal and diagonal curved lines with different scales. The…

Project Proposal “Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades. It's basically a U-turn back to a representational visual communication, moving at a break-away speed...Pop is a re-enlistment in the world.”-Andy Warhol I have always been drawn towards Pop Art. Pop art emerged in the early 1950’s and ended in mid 1970’s.In between these two decades the world of fine art saw some of the best works from artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist among others.…

When Grant Wood painted Spring Turning in 1936, he was influenced largely by renaissance painters, such as Jan Van Eyck. He borrowed their technique in regards to attention to detail and making something with strange, distorted shapes feel hyper-realistic. When Aaron Bohrod painted Hilltop Farm, Lodi, Wisconsin in 1950, he was being taught by John Sloan. This teacher encouraged a more expressionistic approach to painting. Bohrod applied this philosophy to his work by using his paint to sketch…

Vincent Van Gogh: The Portrait of Dr.Gachet The Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent Van Gogh is sorrowful, but alluring. Iam drawn to this piece because of the heavy brush strokes and the usage of dark colors, and because of this I automatically knew there was more to the story as I analyzed-- from the subject's facial expression to the purple flower lying on the table. I began to know more about this painting’s story as I investigated Vincent’s past and other works. The greatest dutch painter…

In late 19th century Australia, the school of Australian Impressionists in the Heidelberg area formed an artist’s group that focused on painting scenes of Australia, refered as The Heidelberg School. The Impressionists were fascinated with this notion of en plein air that is the French word for “open air”. This was a technique discovered by Australian artists Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts. It was a method frequently used by the Impressionists at the school. Together, the two artists often…

On April 7th, 1909 Joe Jones was born in St. Louis Missouri. In the year 1932, Jones painted an oil painting called “View of St. Louis”. The painting was done on canvas. The style of the art work was Midwest Regional Style or modern art. “View of St. Louis” is located in the American Art Collections at the St. Louis Art Museum. My goal in this paper is to recognize Joe Jones life in St. Louis during his adventures in art. People deserve to know more about a local legend in the art field. The…