Museum of Modern Art

describes how art could be understood during this time period. Modernist art in both Greenberg and Fried’s perspectives appeals to the concept of medium specificity, how this ends up affecting the pictorial space and in the end the meaning of the work as understood by the artist/viewer. In this writing a discussion on the relevant aspects of this modernist perspective will be mentioned in respects to artist such as Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman. Greenberg and Fried both respond to the art…

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…

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…

Midnight in Chinatown In SFMOMA, the work that attracted me the most is “Midnight in Chinatown” taken by Williard E. Worden in 1903. As the name suggests, the photography depicts the Chinatown at midnight by using a long shot. There are Chinese traditional buildings along on the sides with dim lantern lights reflecting on the surface of ground. The photograph has a grey tone overall, which enhances a sense of quietness. The photographer uses the technique of perspective to suggest the endless…

Edouard Manet and Alexandre Cabanel may have both been taught by academic teachers but when it comes to their paintings and techniques they are in two completely different areas of art. Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel is a painting about a biblical story that many people knew compared to Edouard Manet’s The Ragpicker which is a painting of a regular day person that people could walk by on the street without much thought to them. In Edouard Manet’s oil painting The Ragpicker Manet used a…

The artist David Hockney painted American Collectors in early years in Southern California 1968. He painted acrylic on canvas. American Collectors, it is double portrait of man and woman, who is Fred and Marcia Weisman with their collection of art works. Including a sculpture by Henry Moore and William Turnbull, which are the stack of stones in front of the man, and native American totem pole next to the woman. The woman, Marcia Weisman wears pink long dress with a smile on her face. She stands…

The first time I saw Rembrandt van Rijn, Self- Portrait, 1659, I found I wanted to both, avert my eyes and remain transfixed. In this particular portrait, Rembrandt is fifty-three years old and even though he is a man well into his middle age his gaze remains powerful and gripping.(pg. 90 THTTA) Rembrandt painted himself near a hundred times over his lifetime but I will focus on this particular portrait which shows a Rembrandt in the midst financial ruin after some bad business decisions. (pg.…

van Gogh is celebrated as one of the most influential Western artists in history, but he is also one of the most complex. Born in the mid 1800s in the Netherlands, van Gogh spent the first portion of his life intent on studying theology but turned to art only a decade or so before his death. While he created over two thousand pieces of artwork that are revered today, he was not considered a famous or noteworthy artist while he was alive and his life was tormented by mental instability, poor…

David May Kucharski Drawing I Due: December 5th Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh is most commonly known for his style of “impasto” which is a technique where paint, usually oil paint is laid on thickly and sometimes in layers so that the paint strokes are visible to the viewer. However, throughout his lifetime, Van Gogh experimented with many different styles and techniques. Some of those being oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sketches. But even within these different styles, one…

When you’re born and raised on a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you don’t get to experience all four seasons like, colorful fall leaves, thick white snow, and blooming flowers. However, on a small island the one advantage you have is being able to watch the sunrise in the east and watch the sunset on the west all in one day. Having the ability to watch the sunrise and sunset as a child all the way up until now I have grown an obsession with nature. I love to watch the sunrise…