National Gallery of Art

Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter known for her influential and breathtaking artworks. Artemisia artworks had an influence on artists that were women. The art she created was so persuasive and emotional that it inspired other artists to traverse themes that involved female empowerment and toughness. Because of this, it opened the door for future generations of artists to summon traditional standards and convey their distinctive perspectives. Artemisia Gentileschi was born July…

742–756), a leading horse painter of the Tang dynasty (唐618–907). To Grace Glueck of The New York Times, Night-Shining White is “one of the most appealing animals in Chinese art” (Glueck, 1997). This painting reveals a window to reach a further understanding of Chinese culture, as it points out the socio-political role that art played through the ages, and still influences the mindset of these people. Subspecies of the Asian wild horse are a native of the steppes of Central Asia. Nomadic horse…

In addition, art is liberating more than mystifying because when I went to the art museum in Washington D.C, the National Gallery of Art. Going into the East building where the modern art was located, seeing the huge space and objects that were in the museum was relaxing. I went to the museum with my parents and they were just looking around the art pieces in the museum as I did and enjoying their time in the museum. As we all looked to the art pieces, we observed and had our own interpretation…

but lives and works in New York City and Rio de Janeiro. He is a Brazilian contemporary artist and photographer. Muniz was previously a sculptor who became fascinated with photographing his works of art, eventually concentrating on photography. He is extremely creative in the ways he portrays his art because he uses different types of mediums such as wire, thread, chocolate, junk, garbage, chocolate, jewelry, magazine strips, and photography, etc. Some artworks he has created and photographed…

This art piece was created by a well-known artist named Winslow Homer called “Right and Left” using oils for this piece. He was mainly known as a landscape painter and printmaker. The Louvre, national gallery of art states that Homer is “perhaps the most accomplished and popular of all American artists.” This gallery has displayed most of all his work throughout his career which was underway a little over one hundred and sixty years ago in 1857. This piece that I have choose stood out to me the…

the landscape as a young boy when he joined the Sierra Club in 1916, after visiting Yosemite National Park. His family was wealthy from his grandfather’s lumber company that was passed down…

Adolph Hitler, a dictator of World War II, was once an artist. Despite his artistic skills and passion towards art, he was continuously rejected by art academies, and therefore, came to be an unsuccessful artist. This was one of the main causes of the Degenerate Art Commission, also called the Nazi art theft. Hitler’s personal antipathy towards modern art created the Degenerate Art Commission which destroyed and concealed thousands of modern artworks (Allsop). Starting from 1937, the looting…

her multimedia art installation which have been featured in over 21 major galleries and exhibitions. Teters is also an activist, she is commonly referred to as the Indigenous Rosa Parks…

front of me. I find myself standing in a small room with about 12 works of art, all in different mediums. Some pieces are enormous with bold colors and a hidden political message while others take up less space and are a little more than meets the eye. This was my first time visiting the Art Gallery of New South Wales and I wasn’t disappointed with my experience. The exhibit in question was held in the Yiribana Gallery, entitled Our Lands, an exhibit that showcased original artworks…

The second piece of work that I am going to discuss is Candy Apple Chick II by James Gill. This piece consists of a portrait of a woman looking up, repeated three times along the top 1/3 of the canvas. She is surrounded by a flat but loud orange, trimmed in a rich blue. The remaining 2/3 of the canvas is the lower half of a woman from her shoulders down, stepping out of a car. This portion of the image is sectioned off in the shape of a rectangle, and flooded with a blue-green. It is…