Impressionism

Painting slanted ceilings is a chore, but it may not be as difficult as you might think. Of course, it is always a challenge to paint any ceiling, but once you figure out what colors you are using and how to design your paint color scheme, painting slanted ceilings is just like painting the walls. There are a few things to think about before you start, specifically what colors you want to use for your walls and ceiling, and whether or not you want to distinguish between the ceiling and the wall.…

I think that the elements we focused more on in this project were Value, Color, and Line. We were required to do a lot of shading which meant putting different values in different places to create the illusion of shadow. We used soft pastels to color, and we had to make many lines to form the objects depicted in the Still Life. As for the principles of Art, I believe we mostly focused on Proportion, Contrast, and Unity. We had to match the proportion of the objects to the ones in the smaller…

In the 18th and 19th centuries many western artists, both in Europe and America, were influenced by the influx of Japanese design and ukiyo-e prints. Considering this phenomenon, an artwork I chose to write about that you can see this in is Vincent van Gogh’s canvas painting Bridge in the Rain. In 1886 Van Gogh moved to Paris and was introduced to Japonism and ukiyo-e because his brother ran an art gallery and he lived next to one. He was fascinated with the designs, colors, and compositions of…

Moulin de la Galette was painted by Pierre Auguste Renoir, completed in 1876. Bathers at Asnieres was painted by Georges Seurat, completed in 1884. Both paintings were created by French painters Moulin de la Galette and Bathers at Asnieres are similar by color scheme but differentiate by detail and mood. The technique of the artworks contrast noticeably. The Moulin de la Galette has no open space. They cover the canvas with people, all doing different things. Some people are dancing, while…

Gustave Courbet's life begins June 10, 1819, in Ornans near Besancon in France. Art started for Gustave at a young age in a little seminary at Ornans. His teacher, "Le Pere Baud" decided to take his students out to nature to draw. "This was a very audacious step at that time. Up until the period of Romanticism the landscape did not exist in its own right; it was merely the setting for mythological or other compositions." (Boudaille, Georges. Gustave Courbet (New York: graphic society Ltd. 1969),…

In Martha Ward’s essay Impressionist Installations and Private Exhibitions, Ward explores the ways in which the location of exhibitions and the way that they were organized impacted painting in late nineteenth-century Paris. With the art market flourishing and governmental policies encouraging independence, it was wise for artists such as the Impressionists to branch out and showcase their works in diverse ways. Throughout her essay, Ward stresses the varying “social and aesthetic distinctions…

Question 1-Henri Rousseau: Idea/Event:You should consider his life, time and place he lived, world events, culture and lifestyle. Effect/Influence/Impact:What was the effect/influence/impact? Example to use to support your idea What evidence do we see of this in his Artworks - name and the visual characteristic Job – Toll collector Boring, mundane, repetitive, dull-escape into a better place Dreamlike,Fantasy,Exciting/ exotic, like a need to escape shown in his artworks Where he lived-unable…

Erin Allbritton Professor Andrea Beaky ART119 3 March 2015 Mary Cassatt was artist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 22, 1944. She was known to be a famous artist, painter, and a printmaker. As she grew up, she learned to experience art in many different ways. When Mary turned 16, she wanted to be an artist and she wanted to make a lifetime career out of it. In order to become an artist, she attended Philadelphia’s own Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. As her career as an artist…

Andre Derain’s piece titled The Turning Road L’Estaque, symbolizes the small French township of L’Estaque. The piece was made in 1906 as a depiction of the earlier painting of the French town by Paul Cezanne. This painting’s present location is in the Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts in the Beck Collection; its original location is in France. The piece is oil on canvas, and it can only be viewed from the front because its hanging on a wall. The style of the piece is Fauves; Fauvist use bright…

Vanitas paintings are symbolic, strongly linked to the bible and coincides to the meaningless of life. The paintings, human life by Harmen Steenwyk and Audrey Flack may seem different from each other but both both portray the same message in through two very different ensembles of objects. 'Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life' by Harmen Steenwyck is a typical example of a Dutch 'Vanitas' painting. Harmen steenwyck mostly painted fruits so this painting is a lot different to…