Museum of Modern Art

would have had a glimpse of it, so as to capture the beautiful moments. In comparison to Le Mayeur - Temple Festival in Bali,the idea of change and revolution can be more evidently seen in the artwork Joy of life by Matisse. The idea of revolution in art is reflected from the expressive colours he uses in this painting and the form of fauvist style. He additionally utilizes exaggerated anatomy to express feeling in his artwork. He was also focusing to capture the mood of the scene rather than…

Final Art Analysis: The Course of Empire From beginning to end: Savage State, Pastoral State, Consummation, Destruction, Desolation. Art Analysis What category of art does this fall under? How can you tell? This piece of art falls under the category of a painting, or an oil on canvas painting. The way I can tell that these works are paintings is every source describes it as so. You can also tell by the amount of detail and the way it has a fade. This artwork is a series, however, with The…

Eugéne Delacroix was born on April 26 in Charenton, France in the year of 1798. He lived for 65 years before he died on August 13, 1863. He didn’t grow up with a lot of money and his painting career never paid him a well enough. He also tended to try and push the boundaries in some of his paintings, more so in his religious pieces. He was a romanticism artist. The romanticism style was an emphasis on emotion and drama of the subject that was depicted in the painting. He didn’t start out in the…

The use of line is used widely through one of his most famous pieces, The Starry Night. Referred to as “the visible path of a moving point (Understanding Visual Artforms in Our World, Anderson and Carson, 2014, pg.30)”, line defines every visible object in the night depicted in the painting. In deep examination, I notice that the sky is completely composed of wavy lines. As said in the text, lines are sometimes used to bring out a certain emotion. The swirls and waves of the light around the…

Vincent Van Gogh: The Portrait of Dr.Gachet The Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent Van Gogh is sorrowful, but alluring. Iam drawn to this piece because of the heavy brush strokes and the usage of dark colors, and because of this I automatically knew there was more to the story as I analyzed-- from the subject's facial expression to the purple flower lying on the table. I began to know more about this painting’s story as I investigated Vincent’s past and other works. The greatest dutch painter…

The Starry night by Anne Sexton is a lot deeper than you might think when you first read it. To really understand the way Sexton writes you must first know more about her back story. It explains in the beginning that she was a troubled housewife that later committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. IN which, If you know anything about Van Gogh (The artist of the painting Sexton writes about) her death is similar to how he also committed suicide. This poem is both simple and complex due to…

If you would pick two of the most well-known artists in recent history, surely the names Matisse and Vincent van Gogh would make the list. Both of these artists are well-known for their style, technique and use of color. However they couldn’t be more different when it comes to some of their paintings, such as Vincent van Gogh’s The Bedroom and Matisses The Red Studio. There is a vanishing points in order to portray a specific perspective on the audience, is done so for two very different means.…

Art can take the form of many styles and still accurately depict the time or the subject that the artist had wanted to create. Although very different in style, both Ernest Withers’ “Sanitation Workers Assemble in front of Clayborn Temple for a Solidarity March, Memphis, TN, March 28, 1968” and Beauford Delaney’s “Can Fire in the Park” are authentic to the time, place, and artist. Withers’ art takes form as a gelatin silver print, a black and white photograph of several hundred black men gather…

Starry Night and Number One Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Jackson Pollock's Number One are two very well known paintings in the art world. Both of these pieces were painted by iconic artists who have impacted the arts, and essentially made it into what society knows it as today. Both Van Gogh and Pollock are admirable artists, especially for breaking the norms of their times with their abstract techniques. Both Starry Night and Number One were created in the 1800-1900’s time frame,…

Andy Warhol was born on August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Andy was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as “pop art”. Warhol’s "Campbell's Soup Cans" and "Gold Marilyn Monroe" made him famous worldwide, and his studio,known as "The Factory," became a magnet for artists of the 60s counterculture. Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid artist and photographer in New York. Although he’s best known for his iconic paintings of soup cans…