Matte painting

perhaps one of Piranesi’s most outspoken admirers who, much like Piranesi, attempted to “push the boundaries of invention” to their extremes in the pursuit of original concepts and designs . Soane was an avid collector of Piranesi’s etchings, and his paintings and sketches exhibited much of the same experimentation with light and space as seen in those pieces. Soane’s greatest artistic achievement, was an eponymous museum whose interiors exhibited the same imaginative structures and spatial…

The Last Supper is a still life sculpture made by Ken and Julia Yonetani using groundwater salt from the Murray River. The image of the large banquet is chipped, moulded and cut from a 1.5 tonnes of salt into a three-dimensional “still life” masterpiece with the dimensions of 9 metres in length, 0.72 metres in width and 1.22 metres in height. The sculpture is of a nine-metre table laid with a variety of food on top, such as fruit and vegetables, lobster and fish and various shaped glasses and…

Romare Bearden was a phenomenal artist of his time; his art displayed his upbringing and places he visited throughout his life. In his collage piece, Tomorrow I May Be Far Away (1966/1967), “Bearden reflects on his childhood memories of Mecklenburg County” (WELCOME TO THE ROMARE BEARDEN FOUNDATION). The title of this particular art piece comes from a blues song, “Good Chib Blues”, “and like the blues, this monumental collage by Romare Bearden derives its power from repetitions, multiple meanings…

The value in the painting show a full range of value which was excellently done by Tristan Eaton. From the left of the picture, you can see from the left of picture that he went to a lighter value to dark to lighter in the middle to dark to light and ends with dark value…

The kiss artwork is a sculpture made with marble and the Christina’s World artwork is a painting made with tempera. Both artworks has a meaningful story behind that you would never think of. For example, in the painting Christina’s World somebody would think that Christina is just sitting on the grass catching the breeze through her hair and enjoying the day instead of her having an disorder that makes her not able to walk. For the sculpture The Kiss you would think that Auguste just saw two…

Faith Ringgold is a famous African American artist who is known for contributing majority of her paintings to the African American Society. Overall, she is known for her painted story quilts. The quilts were used as message boards for the Underground Railroad to help slaves find their way to the north. As time went by, Faith’s quilts contributed towards different stories and themes. Ringgold utilized the use of sewing and stitching techniques to create different pieces of fabric into forming a…

Our two pieces to compare and contrast are from the Metropolitan Museum of Art the are: The Royal Acquaintances on Memi and Sabu and Statue of Gudea. Similarities between the two are: Their function, which is to represent the subjects as actual persons in the real life as well as in the afterlife. The Royal Acquaintances being used to supply a body for the dead to inhabit in the afterlife (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History The Royal Acquaintances of Memi and Sabu, 2016), and the Statue of…

Although many of her other pieces are fascinating, the piece titled "Red Dog" is exceptional. Unlike her other works, the "Red Dog" was painted with acrylic. As I began to soak in the acrylic painting, many thoughts and emotions evoked in my mind. I continued to gaze intently at the painting, analyzing the painting, noting both all the details, from…

I really wanted to learn more about Leonardo Da Vinci and his work with light and perspective and color. I myself being an art major with an emphasis in illustration, it excited me to see art as one of the acceptable options in science discovery and exploration. It took me a while to find something I could actually get some material from, but I found it very interesting. The article I found said the Leonardo Da Vinci was one of art’s foremost exponents in bringing science in…

An example of imagery Sebastian Junger uses is, “Sarajevo had once been a gorgeous Hapsburg-era city filled with cafés, art galleries, and theaters, but now it was sweltering in the July heat and permeated by the smell of burning garbage. Destroyed cars littered intersections where street battles had taken place, and almost every building was spattered with shrapnel”(Junger, 38). This imagery is used to show the devastation that happens during war. He gives us an image of a beautiful city and…