Oil painting

Self Portrait, Myself at 66, is an oil on canvas, painted by Mathias J. Alten at his home studio in Grand Rapids, Michigan. and is most likely his final self-portrait. It currently resides in the George and Barbara Gordon Gallery at Grand Valley State University as a part of a collection titled ‘Mathias J. Alten: An American Impressionist’. Alten painted himself as a gray-haired man with a white shirt and gray pants, holding a palette and paintbrushes. It is evident in this work that Alten has…

child in Tomme’s painting have tanner skin and darker hair. The Madonna and child in Bouts’ painting have more fair skin and reddish hair. This makes me remember that everyone in these times didn’t have a means of transportation, let alone travel so their depictions of religious figures had to be similar to their native people. In Tomme’s painting everyone has halos including the saints. He painted them in a whiteish transparent hue with gold patterns. In comparison to Bouts’ painting, he only…

1912. He don’t like use the bush. He like use dark tone color and colorful depend his emotion. Style his painting is abstract. Color on his work can present emotion and have definition. His works are harshness, determinate and free. He died on 11 August in 1956. I choose him because I like abstract style and I like technique painting. he has a different concept. The first picture. He uses oil color and house paint on canvas. When I saw the picture It give feeling freedom for me. He use…

Experience. I loved strolling through the halls, admiring all the spectacular work. Some of my top picks were the acrylic paintings made by the high schoolers, and I chose to critique a few of my favorites that were there at the show. I absolutely loved “Apprehension”, created by Isabele Ramirez-Dieckman. Her art was probably my favorite of the three I’m critiquing. She used oil paint on canvas to create this art piece. The main style that was used is short strokes in a downward motion, and…

into the painting, there are two people walking down the road with their backs turned to the viewer. It seems to be a man and a woman taking a stroll on a cold night. Afremov is known for his use of many different colors in his paintings. In First Snow, the leaves on the trees in the picture hold various colors. Behind each street light there are many warm colors used. These colors include red, yellow, and orange. Farther away from the street lights, nearing the edges of the painting where…

artistic process have been used in this painting. Millais worked outside to produce sketches and took back to the studio to create a larger finished painting. To create Millais model pretending to be Ophelia drowning in the river, the lady was put in a bath full of water. Some oil lamps were placed underneath to keep the water warm. An antique dress was brought into this painting. All flowers, broken, and dead leaves in full bloom were painted for real in this painting. The usage of two…

Council House and South Block interiors A mural painting by Mary Adshead on the east wall depicts incidents in Plymouth's history. The main staircase rises opposite the main entrance doors. It is cantilevered from a central beam of reinforced concrete. The treads, risers and moulded handrail are of afrormosia, a West African wood, and it has a metal balustrade of bronze and stainless steel with panels of toughened plate glass. The Council Chamber is designed to seat 90 members on five sides…

hold an influential place in Western Art history, commanding great influence on contemporary artists. The ‘Calling of St. Matthew’ is an oil painting set on a 322 × 340 cm canvas. It was painted between 1599 and 1600 by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio who was born in 1571 and lived for 39 years before his demise in 1610. The painting is situated in the Contarelli Chapel, Church of San Luigi dei Francesci in the city of Rome. Caravaggio’s short life was full of tragic…

awakening” 1 for his practice of colours, as shown in his oil on canvas “Composition VII” (1913). Whereas Malevich utilized colours to explore on his fascination around the principle of Zaumism,4 p2 as exemplified in his oil on canvas “Airplane Flying” (1915) Despite Kandinsky and Malevich have contrasting interpretation of ways of using colours, the dominate adoption of warm colour；yellow and red and cold colour; blue shown in many of their paintings seems to be concord with both artist.…

This art piece was created by a well-known artist named Winslow Homer called “Right and Left” using oils for this piece. He was mainly known as a landscape painter and printmaker. The Louvre, national gallery of art states that Homer is “perhaps the most accomplished and popular of all American artists.” This gallery has displayed most of all his work throughout his career which was underway a little over one hundred and sixty years ago in 1857. This piece that I have choose stood out to me the…