Marsden Hartley

Critical Analysis: Northern Summer Window The piece that I chose is Northern Summer Window, the piece is oil paint on canvas, 24 5/16 in. x 20 1/4 in. and was finished in 1936. Marsden Hartley was in American artist - born in 1877 and died in 1943 at the age of 66. Northern Summer Window is a gorgeous piece – the use of pinks, blues and reds. Through the small picture – I can see the small details in the image, texture of the curtains and flowers. While this piece is simply wonderful, the use of artistic relations in the piece really bring it together. Starting with the line work for the painting is elegant – with the use of, from what I can see, thin and curved lines. They’re very flowing, soft and continuous – they all flow in together and make the piece seem soft, comforting, and homey. However, from what I can see – there are mainly straight lines on the bottom side on shapes, for example the clouds, the piece in the window, and there is also the lines on the bottom side of the leaves. While looking at the straight lines, there are also lines in the books and the vase. All the lines make the shapes look stable, yet the looseness of the curtains flow and give the piece a sense of balance. The piece is illustrated during the day – it’s clear; bright and all the items in the piece are illuminated, the two books, flowers in a vase along with the…

The Tomorrow series written by John Marsden is an amazing and eye-opening series, it highlights the extreme situations of war and what it can do to an indiviual and a group of people. The Tomorrow series follows a group of teenagers, in the first book they go away for a camping trip to a place called “Hell” only to return to find their easy and normal farm lifestyle ripped apart. “We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.” Australia was invaded by an enemy country – over the course…

Ashton and Sylvester C. Bailey. Henry Aston changed the legal name of his company to “H. Aston & Company” that is why the change of the lock plate marking happened. The factory was in Middleton, Connecticut. Ira Johnson was a partner in the firm with Henry Aston’s company until he resigned to make his own single shot pistols and his own company. In March, 1851 Ira Johnson received a contract from the U.S Ordnance Department to produce 10,000 M1842 percussion pistols. About 34,000 pistols were…

for example workshops, grain elevators and outbuildings to the artisanship of an early era of America. The art students from the Aschan schools had a traditional or conservative art style and painted portraits of New York close ups of the town life in its grit, down times and sometimes elegance period while the American modernist painted portraits of the shining, engineered world for example the industrial unit, bridges and the high-rise building. (Saccoccia, 2015) Abstract Styles Joseph…

I have places inside me where there are works of art: internal abysms that feel full, physical, like forces that fuse past and present. In the early 2000s, I spent four straight days in the Prado; all of it's still within me like some huge, Proustian madeleine. Almost every Bosch, Cézanne, Matisse, Alice Neel, Bill Traylor, Martín Ramírez, and Marsden Hartley that I've ever seen can flash like lightning at will. I spent a day enraptured by Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece in Colmar. (I…

seems to tell us that the savagery of the wild is to be feared and conquered to build a fresh better life. Looking deeper left at the bare front of the canvas, there exists a broken and disfigured tree, this might signify how unpredictable the wilderness can be and how much damage it can cause to those who are not careful enough. Next migrate the eyes to the right side to detect the light, a few houses in the distance, and the clouds purely white. The white in the clouds may signify how…

and stopped painting. She soon found Arthur Dow, who taught her useful art techniques that she could use in her artwork. In 1916, her work was exhibited in New York for the first time. She was assigned a solo show a year after, where she showcased her watercolor paintings. Later on, Alfred Stieglitz, an admirer towards her artwork, fell in love with Georgia. He insisted on her living with him in New York. They influenced each other’s work; Alfred took over 300 photos of Georgia and she produced…

Following the accidental discovery of Taos by Ernest Blumenschein and Bert Phillips, interest was piqued in its unique landscapes and native peoples. Artists who came to the area found not only a beautiful landscape but a people and their home steeped in history and tradition. Eastern artists loved the purity of native art, unaffected by any European art influences. This was the America they were searching for. Artists such as Marsden Hartley raced to the newly developed art communities to…

artistic influences that Booth was impacted by were Francisco Goya, in which he became familiar of his grotesque style and the inheritance with which his paternal grandmother shared with Goya created a personal connection, and William Blake where he sighted his watercolours and prints whilst working at the National Gallery of Victoria. Further fine artists that impacted on Booth’s work were Arthur Boyd, as Booth followed in the symbolic manner of the apocalyptic purgatory that was seen in Boyd’s…

reader gain a pretty clear picture in their head. He does this in other poems like “The Red Wheelbarrow” or “Queen-Ann’s Lace” add colorful description to his short, expressive poems that dwell on imagism. The Brueghel series takes a very important art historical source as its subject. Williams explicates the paintings, like any art historian would, except he enjambs all of the lines to make them more abstract and to invert the reader’s expectations. That is the simple answer for how he…