Oil painting

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill was created by Pieter Claesz in 1628. It is representative of the Baroque era of art. The medium on which it is created is wood and oil paints are used, it is 9 1/2 in X 14 1/8 in. The subject of the piece is the fleeting moments in life symbolized by various naturalistic objects. Currently this piece is being displayed at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 635. In the Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill, you see a skull sitting atop a ragged…

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 resides at the National Gallery in London. Haber…

titled Encroachment and was painted by Jay Hall Connaway. When first looking at this oil painting, aspects of the scenery stand out most. The painting depicts waves crashing into rocks along the coastline. In particular, there is one wave that is in the process of falling down onto the rocks. There is water mist in the air from this and the ocean is also flowing in-between some of the rocks. Overall, this painting was done with thick brush strokes, however, in the background there is still the…

The San Antonio Museum of Art displays a piece called, “Tree of Life” made in 1805. “Tree of Life is a painting made by Sor Juana Beatriz de la Fuente a Mexican nun; de la Fuente is from Morelia, Mochoacan, Mexico. “The painting is rooted in European morality art of the 16th century” (San Antonio Museum of Art Plaque). The this painting uses realism to help in the depiction of what the painting is showing- a man surrounded by the devil, an angel, a skeleton, Mary, and Jesus ringing a bell.…

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 depict portraits of a…

Painted in 1880, The Storm, by Pierre-Auguste Cot, is an oil painting currently on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Two subjects, a youthful woman and man, are the central focus of this work. The Storm is notable not only for its subject matter, but also for the striking way in which it is depicted; the technical mastery of Cot is evident in the well-rendered, linear style, and the dynamic and atmospheric nature of the painting inspires a greater sense of interest in the viewer. The…

The painting I have chosen is on Display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is named Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff, painted in 1859 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter of Germany. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Winterhalter was trained to paint in Germany, he went on to paint many European Aristocrats. He painted the 24 year old Countess, wife of Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff. In her lap is a book of poetry, which was inspired by Winterhalter to pain because…

bringing us through the history of art and what was considered important during those years. The next chapter is about oil paintings. As economies grew so did people’s want for materialistic objects. At the time, oil paintings were the only visuals and each were one of a kind. Oil painting developed with the classes. Classes became tied to having money, no matter how one got it, oil painting changed to reflect this. Not only was there a desire for…

The two paintings I chose to compare and contrast are Aurora Borealis by Frederic Edwin Church and Portrait of Félix Fénéon by Paul Signac. Both paintings have the same mediums; oil on canvas. Aurora Borealis was created in 1865, it is now housed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington and its dimensions are 142.3 x 212.2 cm. Portrait of Félix Fénéon was created in 1890, it is now housed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and its dimensions are 74 x 95 cm. Aurora Borealis is…

pm, which is located in Dallas, TX. I saw many different paintings in the art gallery. Among them, my favorite artwork was “Madonna and Child and St. Jerome”, which was created by Il Garofalo (1481-1559). This artwork was painted in 15th century. I could not take off my eyes from this painting as it was very beautiful and attractive to me. This painting was one of the famous artworks in the history of European Art, and it was termed as an oil on panel. In this artwork, Garofalo has drawn the…