Impressionism

In the excerpt ‘The Origins of Painting and its Representational Value,’ Léger seeks to describe the concept of realism in modern art as well as answer the question most commonly associated with modern pictures: “What does that represent?” Léger develops his claims on modern art and his response to what he considers a nonsensical question by comparing a work of art’s imitative capabilities with its realistic value, defining as best he can the concept of pictorial realism, and by providing a…

Reading Between the Art Art, in any shape or form, can be interpreted into text nowadays. Whether it’s a photograph, painting or a sculpture, people can form an elucidation from the work. Some artists use symbolism to make the audience think about the piece and try to find the meaning behind the work. Other artists, however, draw a direct representation of what they want their art to convey to the audience; in other words realism. Edward Hopper, artist of the painting “Automat (1927)”, is an…

French painter, Paul Cezanne, was a very large influence on art and artists during and after his time. He went through many different styles of Expressionism and inspired many artists. One painting that he is especially known for was created later in his life. It is called The Large Bathers, and the title reflects the work of art, since it is of women who are bathing that look large. (“Bathers”, 2015) One can argue that Picasso and Matisse took this concept and made their own works that both…

The Las Meninas portrait is complex and involves Baroque characteristics. Not only is it very painterly in the way that it just lets highlights and the brushwork sit on the surface, not blended in, but at the same time it involves a tonalistic approach to the shading with shades of white turning into gray and eventually to black. Las Meninas is also complex with the subjects and objects within the work. The portrait or mirror in the Las Meninas work is the same scale as the Las Meninas work and…

The line, ‘colour is in itself enigmatic in the sensations which it gives us’, resonates with Faa Iheihe due to the mysteriousness of the overall composition. The image is a depiction of what appears to be a paradise-like setting. Primitive-looking men and women are placed across the long painting accompanied by a horse and a dog. Reds, yellows, greens, and browns are recognizable throughout the entire painting. These colors often are related to warm colors. This is suitable due to the…

Vincent van Gogh, who is amongst the most famous Post-Impressionist artists, who paintings are exceptionally unique. One characteristic that made Van Gogh’s art unique was his dramatic, yet expressive personal style he added on to his work. Van Gogh was an art dealer, teacher, and evangelist before he decided to pursue being an artist. When Van Gogh moved to Paris, it led to him gaining exposure to the Parisian avant-garde. From there, Van Gogh tailored Seurat’s pointillism, by applying…

The Japanese Bridge 1923 artwork reminds me of some of kandinsky’s work but in a much looser and less geometric way. It has a very unique style of brush work that draws the viewer in and brings us into a much more ethereal and flowing mindset and mental landscape. This piece is different from the others by Monet we have seen in class in that is has a much less focused and planned color scheme (or at least appears unplanned on the surface). This is almost certainly due to the cataract symptoms…

Art is a form of communication that allows the artist to express their emotions to the viewer. Works evoke emotions in people, which results in varying perceptions because each viewer interprets art differently depending on cultural background, personal history, and many other factors. The artist Paul Cézanne and Maureen Gallace are both similar in the way they reflect their content in art by recreating everyday objects and transferring what they see onto the canvas by interpreting their…

Stepping Out is an art created by Roy Lichtenstein in 1978, 1900 A.D. It was a painting made out of oil and magna on a canvas with a dimension of 86 ¾ x 70 1/8 inches. The painting is portraying two people; a man and a woman with different styles when it comes to their outside appearances, but with the combination of shape and color they had both compliment each other and fill what they are lack of. The types of elements that dominating in this piece are the lines and colors. The…

Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist known for creating bloated, oversized depictions of people, animals and elements of the natural world. Born in Colombia in 1932, Fernando Botero left school to become an artist, displaying his work for the first time in a 1948. His subsequent art, now exhibited in major cities worldwide, concentrates on situational portraiture united by his subjects' proportional exaggeration. I could argue that Fernando Botero is our most renowned artist. This, of course,…