Oil painting

The oil painting Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market created in 1614 by Frans Snyder depicts a large size, naturalistic scene of a shopkeeper and his game in a Flemish marketplace. The painting is 83 ½ by 121 ¼ inches, which gives it an imposing scale. Snyder’s depiction of a scene from the everyday life of a Belgium in the 1600s is made realistic through a close attention to small details that would typically go unnoticed, as if to bring the viewer into the painting. …

The energetic painting is not just merely oil on canvas, it is the representation of an oncoming storm in a once peaceful meadow surrounding a small pool. This realistic artist is well known for his paintings because they capture day-to-day attributes. Gustave Courbet did not focus on just landscapes, his paintings ranged from nudes, still lifes, to hunting scenes. Courbet was influenced by everyday life, including when he toured the Netherlands and Belgium. Almost all of his paintings…

The Stolen Kiss – Hermitage Museum The Stolen Kiss by Jean Honore Fragonard from the State Hermitage Museum is an oil on canvas painting Museum Introduction The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia is the largest museum of arts and culture in the world and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collection consists of six buildings, five of which are open to the public, that include over three million items, with only a small portion remaining on permanent display. Among the…

René Magritte in Belgium, 1929. The painting was painted onto a canvas using oil. The canvas is measured to 23 ¾ x 31 15/16 x 1 inch (60.33 x 81.12 x 2.54 cm). And its frame to 30 7/8 x 39 1/8 x 3 in. (78.42 x 99.38 x 7.62 cm). It was purchased with funds provided by the Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection (78.7). It is currently on display in the 2nd floor of the Ahmanson Building, located at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). This painting appears to be of a pipe,…

The Arrival in Bethlehem was painted oil on wood in 1540 by an unknown artist or noted to be Master LC from the Netherlands (LC, Master). This painting is an excellent example of paintings that were left unfinished allowing the under drawing on the wood to be visible. The artist used oil as his or her painting medium and wood as his or hers canvas. According to The New York Times , “This image was apparently being worked on from front to back…” (Smith). This piece captures Mary and Joseph’s the…

Netherlands and died in 1569 in Brussels, Belgium (Pieter Bruegel, the Elder). This painting was created in c.1562 – c.1563, during Bruegel’s Brussels Period of his own art. The medium used for this creation was oil on panel, and it is currently being displayed at Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. Other notable works of his include The Hunters in the Snow, Netherlandish Proverbs, and The Peasant Wedding. This painting portrays a harrowing picture, abundant with symbols of death, religion, and…

from the 1868-1881, most of his paintings were realistic paintings. Realism is a way to categories paintings, this painting was categorized by what was actually happening in the work of art, his paintings are truthful. He did his paintings before, during and after the civil war. He had many paintings with women, children, farmers, fields, animals, and many other people in his paintings. His paintings were how he felt or what he saw when he painted. He started painting in Boston then he went to…

Grand Bainuses, 1895-1906, oil on canvas, 52 x 81 inches, The Barnes Foundation, Marion, PA. I will be discussing what the painting portrays, the materials used for the painting, the form and context of the painting. I will also be discussing the coherence, correspondence, and completeness of the painting. The painting of Paul Cezanne subject matter portrays nudity, all the men and women in the oil painting are nude. I can tell the gender of the people in the painting by the breast’s. They…

This piece is oil on canvas and is 48 x 45 inches. This shows a predominate sky which bears down with intense presence on earth. In the painting you can barely notice the horizon line; it appears as if the sky is the whole picture. This picture is built up by many luminous layers of thinly applied color which shows light and atmosphere…

Ravignan, Paris by Maximilien Luce, and lastly Rainy Midnight by Childe Hassam. All three of these painting have something different from each other which caught my attention. The first artwork I chose is by Hans Hofmann, it is a oil on canvas painting called Sparks made in the year 1957.The image is trying to show sparks and the explosion of them.The painting is abstract because instead of actually painting in detail he decided to just use other shapes mainly consisting of squares to represent…