Natural landscape

Normally, a painted desert scene and a horse sculpture don’t have very many things in common, if at all. In Passover, Dennis Blagg has created a stunning and realistic painting. In contrast, Hina, sculpted by Deborah Butterfield is an extraordinary sculpture of a resting horse. While the pieces are different art forms, they both convey the beauty of organic forms in nature. Dennis Blagg is an extremely talented artist in the Southwest area, particularly the Big Bend National Park region of…

oil painting View from Mount Holyoke by Thomas Cole is a stunning aerial view of the landscape at Mount Holyoke. The painting was painted at Northampton Massachusetts after a thunderstorm. View from Mount Holyoke was first shown to the world at the National Academy of Design in 1836. The painting was long known as The Oxbow. Using the elements and principles of design, Cole created a masterpiece in American landscape paintings. Cole incorporated many elements of design in View from Mount…

Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English artist who gained notoriety from his landscape paintings that utilize the dynamic lights that illuminate the scenery he builds. Joseph Turner’s work innovated and popularized landscape painting, which laid the foundation for impressionism to come into prevalence after the Romantic period. This is observed in his painting Rockets and Blue Lights, painted in 1840 with oil on canvas. Rockets and Blue Lights displays a coastal view of the ocean that…

Every year at CMEA, we play set of three songs and there’s a specific pattern to the set. In the pattern of the set, the second song is usually a ballad. This year, our ballad for the set is Kindred Spirits, composed by Brian Balmages. Kindred Spirits was composed for the Browning family after Nicholas Browning had murdered his family on November 1st, 2008. His mother, father and two younger brothers, Gregory and Benjamin, were all shot by Nicholas and passed away. Gregory and Benjamin were both…

On Thursday, Nov. 17th, I attended the speech whose topic is Cross-Boundary Practice and Imagination in Contemporary East-West Artistic Creation, which is given by Leah Lihua Wong, a famous artist who has received several arts award in Ohio. Leah L. Wong was born in Qingdao, China. In her day, which is around 60s in China, there was no electronic products like we have today. However, she still has some hobbies such as collecting candy wrappers, cutting paper, and reading line drawings. She also…

thoughts. Her love for Hamlet is represented by the pink roses, the posises represent her loving Hamlet in vain, and her resulting sorrow is represented by the pheasant’s eye. The color palette contains lots of green, and it makes the painting feel very natural and real. Even in death Ophelia looks beautiful, like a rose of May. Overall, Sir John Everett Millais’s painting of Ophelia incorporates many aspects from the literary masterpiece Hamlet utilizing various botanical aspects. Instead of…

What is a landscape by O'Keeffe that you are familiar with? Write a short essay of approximately 300 words about that landscape and describe it in such a way that an artist might want to paint it. What features stand out? What colors are most common? What is the light like? The landscape that I am most familiar or the one I see as the most famous is the works he did in New Mexico. According to Katherine Tyrell from okeeffemusseum.com says that “O’Keeffe’s favorite place to paint was…

the fall of the French monarchy during the rise of Napoleon, Architectural Fantasy reflects the former works of Hubert Robert while also depicting a slight change in subject matter. Although the painting is of a building, it evokes qualities of a landscape painting with its broad views. Romantic paintings from this era were defined by their use of light and color to convey emotion. Another aspect of Romantic works was that the scenes were often glorified to depict a more beautiful and perfect…

locations. It is interesting how as time went by, people would visit Niagara Falls and other places to fall back in love with the land they live on. In this chapter, Nye pointed out that sublimity became a social construction. Traveling to the “American Natural wonders” was a way for a person to feel like a “good…

Formal as Content Prosodies#1: Prosodies #1 is a large three-dimensional sculpture created by Dianna Frid in 2013. It’s one of three figures that form part of a bigger gallery. Made of embroidery loops, plaster, paint, cloth, paper, powder pigments, metal, and cellophane, the figure is placed on a white background with only its “shadow” separating it from its surroundings. Prosodies #1 uses the repetitive shape and pattern of circles to build the sculpture from the base. Some unique features of…