Neo-impressionism

The Shock of the Modern is an appropriate way to describe the changes occurring in art and society during the 19th and 20th centuries. Various social, political and economic changes would drastically challenge artistic conventions that had been in place since the Renaissance. The period between 1850-1970 saw dramatic changes and revolution in the production and history of art. The art world would be exposed to juxtapositions between both tradition and modernity and the idealized and realistic.…

In the little Dutch Village of Aamersvoort, a kid by the name of Piet Mondrian was born on March seventh, 1872. Piet was the second child of four, with two brothers and one sister. As an Artist himself, bringing home the money off of his amateur art, Piet's dad, Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan Sr., saw that his child had a natural talent for drawing and painting and could give him lessons. His Uncle, Fritz Mondrian, was also an a fantastic painter and was self trained. Since he was a respectable…

The Renaissance period known as “Rebirth” was a period of time in which literature and art were highly valuable, some of today's most valuable art pieces were created during this era. Before the Italian Renaissance it was the Gothic age, art during the Gothic age if very different from that of the art of the Renaissance. The Gothic age began during the Middle Ages, when religion was very important and daily life was revolved around God. The style of Gothic was mainly seen in architecture, many…

During the early to late 1860’s landscapes were becoming more hyper-realistic due to the expansion of America with the Louisiana purchase. Artists were hired to go out with these brave colonials and paint the landscapes of this undiscovered region. What came back was absolutely breath taking. Even though this was a ploy to get people from the 13 colonies to migrate west, it was a successful one. Two of the artists chosen were Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Church, both painters by trade and both…

Madame Manet is one of several portraits Édouard Manet painted of his wife. Madame Manet is a 23-7/8 x 20 in. oil painting, that was created between the years 1874-1876 in Paris for George Moore; however, it can now be found in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. Also residing at the Norton Simon is Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist’s Mother. Van Gogh painted this 16 x 12-3/4 in. image for himself while in Arles, France using oil paints as his medium. Both of these pieces…

Let me simply state the central, polemical move in this book. I suggest a new route to the paintings of Delacroix, one that does not start with his Salon début, the Dante and Virgil in Hell (1822), but rather begins with an examination of the 1824 Salon. This context included works by artist who are now obscure – Xavier Sigalon, Leon Cogniet – and it was filled with critical voices of enduring and yet neglected relevance for French painting, such as the novelist Stendhal (Henri Beyle) and…

expressing the atmosphere of night with air sound. In the Jardins sous la pluie, he uses arpeggio and other effects of piano sounds to express the sounds of rain drop and the reflection of water drops. Like the discussion of the features of impressionism music which mentioned above, ‘Estampes’ also presents the beauty, pleasure of music and the nature by…

The work of art I chose to discuss this week is, Equestrian Portrait of King Phillip II (Michael Jackson), an oil on canvas painting done in 2010 by Kehinde Wiley. I chose this painting because Kehinde Wiley’s art interests me. When I first looked up some of his work I found that he has a signature style of remake classic paintings from the 17th century all the way up to the 19th century. But he adds his own twist to them. He gets innovative and incorporates African-American figures into his…

Based on the researched carried out it was said that Hopper’s was one of the eminent artistic in the history of American Painters. The essay will answer the question that said how the modern American city is portrayed in Edward Hopper’s paintings. Firstly it will discuss Representation of dream and reality on how he want people to believe that dream informed the conceal part of internal life. How the modern city portray him as prominent traditional designers in the history of America, which…

"A Starry Night" shows a lot of emotions and great piece of work by Vincent Van Gogh. With brush strokes of thick paint, called impasto according to the textbook, van Gogh invented rhythms that convey his intense feelings. In 1889, during the Post-impression movement van Gogh created one of the most famous pieces of artwork with his oil on canvas “The Starry Night”. The piece captures the best use of line, shape, mass, space, motion, texture and color. Van Gogh had a talent like no other, which…