Norman Vincent Peale

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…

Stepping Out is an art created by Roy Lichtenstein in 1978, 1900 A.D. It was a painting made out of oil and magna on a canvas with a dimension of 86 ¾ x 70 1/8 inches. The painting is portraying two people; a man and a woman with different styles when it comes to their outside appearances, but with the combination of shape and color they had both compliment each other and fill what they are lack of. The types of elements that dominating in this piece are the lines and colors. The…

Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Much paintings stand the test of time. Foraging new ideologies for our society and culture. Flowing and spiraling through the abysses of Van Gogh's and Munch's minds throws their emotional thoughts into the forms of paintings. Van Gogh is a Post-Impressionist artist meaning “he was drawn to bright colors and visible, distinctive brushstrokes” (Adams 789), with this in mind, the oil painting Starry Night was born. Stemming from this period was the emotional development…

When studying art through the ages, a person will begin to notice certain similarities and difference that come to light during different ages. Frequently, it can be seen that one work of art could not have come into being without their predecessor works. The two works of art that I will be discussing are The Fighting Temeraire by J.M.W. Turner [Fig 1] and The Manneporte near Étretat by Claude Monet [Fig 2]. To begin, The Fighting Temeraire is an oil on canvas painting, measuring 90.7 x 121.6 cm…

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…

Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist known for creating bloated, oversized depictions of people, animals and elements of the natural world. Born in Colombia in 1932, Fernando Botero left school to become an artist, displaying his work for the first time in a 1948. His subsequent art, now exhibited in major cities worldwide, concentrates on situational portraiture united by his subjects' proportional exaggeration. I could argue that Fernando Botero is our most renowned artist. This, of course,…

The Life and Times of Caravaggio Known as one the fathers of modern painting, Caravaggio was probably the most revolutionary artists of his time. He often went against the norm by depicting events of the past as if they were taking place in the present day and used models in a hitherto unheard of manner – pulling people from the streets and painting directly from life. He was famous for his use of light and shade in his paintings. It was said that he wouldn’t allow anyone to pose in daylight.…

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…

Is there life after death? For Vincent Van gogh there was. Vincent Van Gogh was known for a painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and color, highly influenced 20th-century art but before he was known in every household, Van Gogh had suffered from mental illness and remained poor causing him to be virtually unknown throughout his life. Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of art. In over a…

In this essay I will discuss the ways that Vincent Van Gogh’s, The Night Cafe, 1888 was used as influence for Ernest Ludwig Kirchner’s, Street, Dresden, 1908. To prove my point I will provide visual analyzations of the pieces, some background to the artists and the art movements they were associated with, and events that happened around the time the paintings were created that affected many artists and the work they created. Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, Night Cafe, depicts a scene a cafe with…