Oil paint

Jan Van Eyck began his career as an artist in 1422 and continued until his death in 1441. While Van Eyck was active, he created many well-known paintings. According to John Haber, Van Eyck was a portraitist who was the first to paint in oils (pg.1). One of his most famous works is Wedding Portrait, or Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride. This painting depicts a man and a woman holding hands in matrimony with many symbolic objects surrounding them. The painting was created in 1434 and currently…

Las Meninas painted in 1656 with oil on canvas, is a depiction of everyday life of the royal Spanish family where Diego Velazquez was able to show a real moment in time, avoiding idealism and capturing truth. Velazquez was a court painter of the royal family, King Philip IV and Queen Maria Anna, which he worked hard at to achieve, and wanted to show this achievement to others. When viewing the painting the obvious focal point is Princess Margarita who stands out from the center, dressed in…

were always a gentleman in our friendship. Now that I am grown, she wouldn’t bat an eye at you asking. I often wondered what you were doing each summer I came to visit my Seanmhair.” “I mainly helped my Athair in the family business or worked on the oil rig. I see ye still have the pink pearl. It looks lovely made into a necklace; I was surprised, to see ye wearing it at the pub when I bumped into ye.” He…

can be seen both as a performance art or a painting. The process of making the Agua Grande is beautiful and can be seen as performance art because it combined both artist’s movement and strong visual impact. Cai use gunpowder as the material to paint his art, he will set the gunpowder on the paper and covered the entire paper and gunpowder, he will reserve a fuse so he can then set the fire on and burn the gunpowder under the cover. The beauty of the performance is short but incredible, after…

Choosing three art pieces for the project was an interesting process. I logged onto the google art project and just started browsing. When I came across one that I was drawn to I saved it. And after a while I looked through the images and picked out three. The first one that stood out to me was Romare Bearden’s “Of The Blues: Carolina Shout”. Bearden made this collage piece in 1974. It stands 37.5 inches tall and 51 inches wide along with 1.5 inches in depth. I was drawn into this image but…

(1927)”, is an example of someone who uses realism to convey a message. Hopper uses multiple elements, such as color contrast, lighting effects and shading, to show the realism of the painting. Hopper often used oil paints, which have noticeably more depth in them than other kinds of paints like water colors. From the color of the woman’s hat, to her coat and the flowers, the colors in this picture stand out, as they would in real life. The dreary…

writing about two pieces that striked me as intrigued. I would like to start with a piece called Portrait of Artist’s Sister, by Georges Lemmen. It is a, you guessed it! A portrait of his sister, it is very realistic but also really cool. Painted with oil on canvas, the artist portrays his sister in a stricter light. She has an expressionless look on her face, with bags under eyes. Her hand are clasped on her lap, she is dressed sharply with her hair placed in a bun. It is the perfect way to be…

consequences of poor decisions. These pieces are both extraordinary in their complexity, details, and thoughtfulness. Each provides endless observation and interpretation by the viewer. Hieronymus Bosch’s painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, is oil on oak panels, measuring 220 cm × 389 cm. Finished in 1505, the piece is a triptych, constructed in three panels hinged at the sides. When closed, the scene is a grayscale translucent image of the earth, sky, and sea before man appeared. When…

For this assignment I visited the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts and chose a painting from the 2016 Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition. The oil on linen painting was titled Professor Quimby and was made in 2014 by Cyd Goodwin. Goodwin appears to be influenced by theatrical plays as most of her paintings revolve around the same subjects/people. In Professor Quimby, one can see a young woman in a greenish dress, standing, looking over her shoulder at the viewer. Diagonally from the woman…

Subject Matter and Description of the Artwork & The Facts: The piece Pink and Blue II was painted by Georgia O’keeffe. The piece was created in New York in 1919. The painting was created by using oil paint on a canvas. There was no texture added, so the piece seems to be quite smooth. The canvas is 35 x 29 inches. It is displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The artist painted an abstract piece, and it does not contain a straightforward or well known subject. There are a variety of…