Landscape art

In the 19th Century American Art section of the Dallas Museum of Art is a large oil painting on canvas that grasps the attention of the entire room. American painter, Fredric Edwin Church, created “The Icebergs” in 1861. The glowing painting is exceptionally large, measuring in at 85 x 133 x 5 inches framed. The painting itself is 64 ½ x 112 ½ inches. “The Icebergs” is a landscape painting, which depicts multiple icebergs floating in the ocean under a beautiful, slightly cloudy sky. One iceberg…

the man who draws a landscape for his eternity will believe there is nothing on the other side (Carson 140). Indeed, if the limit of your vision, your insight is as far as the eye can see, you lose the curiosity to know what lies beyond the horizon. Georges Braque, a prominent twentieth century painter who contributed as much to cubism as Picasso did, believed that perspective was a cursed thing. Though he originated by dabbling in impressionism, a more realistic form of art, he explored fauvism…

I loved walking up to the museum, I felt excited just from seeing all the interesting landscape outside. Seeing the fountain with its unique design and it looked like it had lights so at night you could see it. I remember the front door being locked and we had to use a side entrance which I thought was kinda weird. Then once I got inside I found out an artist was making a very unique design at the entrance. He was taking books and hanging them from a frame bolted to the ceiling. Each book…

José Vivas- Astara created an oil on canvas painting Catalan Scene in 1971 using oil paints. The painting is a landscape painting. The art piece shows the missions with a couple of houses surrounding it. All the houses are connected to each other but they are all different heights. The houses have red tiled roofs and white stucco walls. Close to the houses there is a body of water with trees and grass surrounding it. In the painting you can tell it’s a sunny day by how the painting depicts warm…

Contemporary art is often defined as the work of artists that are living in the period of the 21st century. This specific type of at often mirrors the culture and society and provides a vast resource that allows for contemplation of current social ideas as well as a new way to view familiar ideas. The works of art that are often created by contemporary artists represent a dynamic combination of various types of subjects, methods, concepts, and different materials. The use of these ideals often…

finishing up her last year in the masters program for print making. She decided that she wanted to major in art right after high school. She had always had an interest in art, which her mother had some influence in. She is from Southern California and came to Long Beach for grad school. She has just recently moved to Anaheim as well. Norax likes her art to be abstract and figurative. To make her art pieces, she used screen printing. She feels that it is quick and efficient. The screen printing…

visited the Harn Museum located at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. This was my first time visiting the Harn Museum. I was impressed at how big it was and how many different rooms there were. I spent about 2 hours there looking at the art pieces and reading the plaques associated with them. It was very informative about the artists and gave some background on them. One of the first areas I walked through there was an artist named Yvonne Jacquette, who was born in America.…

Stasinos work captures the beauty of a variety of landscapes and people. Stasinos’ Wintonia Hotel, which he painted in 2003, is a piece that captures the resemblance of the hotel to those who view it through different elements and principles. Michael was born in Canoga Park, California and attended Southern Utah University where he initially began studying to become an actor but later moved on to pursue art. He now is an associate professor of Art and Design at the Pacific…

he Torment of Saint Anthony is the earliest known painting by Michelangelo, painted after an engraving by Martin Schongauer when he was only 12 or 13 years old.[1] It is currently in the permanent collection of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.[1][2] It shows the common medieval subject, included in the Golden Legend and other sources, of Saint Anthony being assailed in the desert by demons, whose temptations he resisted; the Temptation of St Anthony (or "Trial") is the more common…

Academie Julian, he was under the academic realist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. During this period of his life, he came to admire greatly the work of Francois Millet, and embraced Impressionism as his literary tool. He was admitted into the Ecole des Beaux Arts. At the end of 1891, he returned to Philadelphia and began teaching at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. Henri got greatly influenced and recognised his love for Impressionism, calling it a "new academicism." He urged his…