Oil painting

I picked the Birth of Venus because I saw this painting in my Western Civilizations course here at Maryville College and it was the one that stuck out the most to me. It is a unique, mythological painting from the Renaissance Period painted in Florence, Italy. The Birth of Venus belongs to the group of mythological pictures painted by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) in the 1480s, following his return from Rome after completing three fresco paintings in the Sistine Chapel for Pope Sixtus IV. The…

raisonné for the artist Cima da Conegliano, which I found in the course reserves for this course, FAH274. I used the index of the book in order to find the catalogue entry for my assigned work. b. In the catalogue entry, the author mentions a few paintings that Cima da Conegliano made which are closely related to Madonna of the Orange Tree. Of these, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, with Sts. John the Baptist and Lucy…

I viewed so many stunning works of art, but out of the pieces I had the chance to see that day. The three that caught my eye were Antoine Watteau’s Ceres (Summer) oil on canvas, c. 1717/ 1718, Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Diana and Endymion oil on canvas, c. 1753/1756, and finally François Boucher’s The Bath of Venus, 1751. These painting are not only connected by the same medium, They also contain similar themes of Roman mythology (fantasy), and they all happen to be created during the same period…

The painting that I found to be the most interesting was “Venus and Adonis”. This painting measures about 42 inches x 52 1/2 inches. The painting was created by oil paint, a medium composed of pigments and varying types of vegetable oils. The painting was done on stretched canvas, and therefore it gives the painting a slight textured quality. The painter, Titan, painted this picture giving soft appearances of the colors. The painting doesn’t have any harsh brush strokes, and the paint seems to…

Bride, Jan van Eyck’s 1434 oil painting on wood panel, is among the most famous paintings in Renaissance art. This painting not only is a double portrait but also visually certifies the wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini, an Italian merchant, and his betrothed in their Flemish home in Bruges. Van Eyck’s composition is filled with elaborate detail and complex symbolism. The use of oil paint instead of tempera paint allowed van Eyck to create the illusion of depth within his painting. He achieved the…

meaning. This is oil on canvas painting called Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas made by artist Albert Bierstadt during 1870. This panting’s color schemes is polychromatic. It contains different hues such as green, yellow, and blue. Those hues that used on the painting are cool. Also there are secondary colors. The panting used dark green color in the trees that behind the river, and this creates values and distance between mountain and the land. Additionally, this painting used…

time. He used oil as a medium, the slow drying substance allowed him time to mix colors and create layers. The painting that most embodies Eyck's skills is the Arnolfini Double Portrait, painted in 1434. The painting is currently displayed at the National Gallery in London. This double portrait is an intriguing piece that leaves more questions than answers. One of the reasons the painting is so intriguing, is because of who is being painted. At a time where portraits and paintings were more…

Feminine features The painting Jupiter and Callisto by Angelica Kauffmann (1781), oil on canvas with a 24 inches diameter is a painting in the late 19th century. As soon as our eyes set into the painting, two female figures in the foreground captured our attention. One of them is Jupiter in the disguise of Dianna, while the other female is Callisto. Since the main light source is shone on both of them, they would consider as the emphasis of the artwork and where most tension is created. The…

Germany, 1920. Its oil on canvas and the scale is Frame: 31 x 26 x 1 ½, 24 ½ x 19in. This art piece uses some of formal elements and design principles to make the art very interesting to examine. For example, Heister used color and shapes to design the beasts and proportion and scale to make the beast big to catch people’s attention. The combination of both techniques has made this piece of art look intimidating because of the color and distorted shapes. The theme of this painting is that the…

North of Italy, painting was less influenced by the Greco-Roman revival that it had been in Italy. However, in the north, there were a number of technical innovations that revolutionized painting. In the Netherlands much of this art was not produced on canvas or church walls like that of Italy, but instead produced on wood panels. These could be alter pieces for churches, but portable. The Dutch mastered humanism and showed their virtuosity in minute details such as backgrounds, clothing details…