Impressionism

The artwork The Parc Monceau made in 1878 by Claude Monet is an oil on canvas painting. The painting is 28 5/8 inches horizontally by 21 3/8 inches vertically. I discovered this piece of art online through the Metropolitan Museum of Art website located in New York, New York, along with many other of his art pieces, but this one I appreciated the most. The Parc Monceau is a representational and figurative painting because it depicts scenery we see in real life as well as people just slightly…

The very well known painting called A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, or A Sunday Afternoon for short, is a piece of artwork by Georges Seurat. Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, France. He was born into a wealthy family to his parents Antoine Chrysostome Seurat and Ernestine Faivre. He attended art school for several years until he got bored of the basic art and broke free from the traditional art of that time. He went to be considered the founding father of the Neo-Impressionist art…

The two points on which art is created are line and color. This is a topic that has been continuosly discussed. One of the most famous dicused debates of art was the Great Line vs. Color Debate of 1671. This took place at the French Roayal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris. The dispute was weather drawing or color was more important in painting. The two parties involved were the Poussinists and the Rubenists. Those who argued that drawing was the most important thing were dubed the…

In the piece “Autorretrato en el taller (Self-portrait in the Studio)” by Francisco de Goya, the artist depicts himself in a Romantic style of painting. The lighting is hazing and alludes to being naturally lit, due to it coming in from the window. It continues to call attention to the illusion of painting by the brush strokes being visible on the canvas. This incites the idea of self awareness of the artist and understanding that a painting is not a reflection of real life but an artifice. The…

Introduction Art is a tool of personal expression. It allows individuals to manifest ideas, imagination, and life experiences onto a canvas. The artist paints to relieve an emotion or portray a concept. Although much of the artist's intention can be revealed through analysing symbolism and technique, by delving under the surface and connecting events of the artist’s life to smaller aspects of the painting, one is able to understand more about the artist mental state. Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van…

The painters Nicholas Poussin and Clade Lorrain were French painters that began the inclusion of landscape genre painting in France. Both artists took landscape painting and treated it as historical and moral lessons because of their religious focus, and emphasis on a more fantasy setting. Poussin with Landscape with St Matthew and the Angel demonstrates this idea in its most basic form as Matthew sits with an angel helping him read, in an open-air environment. Elizabeth Cropper states, that…

Charles Baudelaire called on artists to depict modern life rather than the religious or ethereal. He stressed the importance of depicting the hubbub of the city streets, shops and cafes, changing fashions, the animated and leisurely suburbs would provide the inspiration contemporary artists needed. Being a friend of Baudelaire, Manet heeded his call. He produced Music in the Tuileries Gardens (a military band concert), portraying portraits of Baudelaire and Manet himself. The figures span the…

Edouard Manet was a painter born in the 17th century well-known for his impressionist work which was very rarely seen at the time. Today we will be talking about his piece 'Women at the Races' painted in 1865. History of the Painting 'Women at the Races' or 'Champs de Courses' was a piece painted by Manet in his late 30's in 1865. Just like the majority of Manet's other pieces, 'Women at the Races' was an impressionist piece. As well as this, it was an oil painting which was Manet's primary…

The Fauve, MoMA, 2017 The artwork shown, uses a bold color palette, which is known for being Fauvism. During 1905, artists such as Henri Matisse, André Derain, and Maurice de Vlaminck created Fauvist work. The word Fauve, “made particular reference to these artists’ brilliant, arbitrary color, more intense than the “scientific” color of the Neo-Impressionists and the non-descriptive color of Gauguin and Van Gogh” (92). The exhibition would bring out the paintings because of the use of such a…

Konstantin Dimopoulos’ “The Blue Trees” is what is known as environmental art. Like “land art” or “earthworks”, environmental art makes use of nature to create nondestructive art. “The Blue Trees” is at first a little underwhelming, after all, at its core it is literally just a tree painted blue. But as I have come to understand, it is actually an ongoing project with an important message. The formal elements of “The Blue Trees” did not seem to be too complex. The color used to paint the trees…