Oil painting

The critics too were fairly harsh on Rousseau and his work one critic famously wrote “Monsieur Rousseau paints with his feet, with a blindfold over his eyes” (BBC). However critics came around to Rousseau’s unique style of painting much sooner than the public did. Rousseau was seen as a bit of a joke throughout the public, especially because of his naïve and innocent personality that left him susceptible to practical jokes and mockery. The meanest of these “jokes” occurred…

Carraci’s genre paintings of the normal life style of people, were not always in his paintings but more so in his sketches, and sketch books that he would go out and draw in. The unique features of Carracci’s artwork, helped him craft his own art style when he started to journey into genre painting. Either it being his poses, sketches, or painting style, others that were under him took up his artwork and used it for later in commissions for different reasons. “Domenichino first assisted Annibale…

well-known painter for impressionism. He was born on November 14, 1840. In Paris, France. His painting Regatta at Sainte-Adresse is an oil-an-canvas painted on 1867. The dimension of the painting was 75.2*101.6 cm. This painting portrayed a cloudy day scene, and showing sailing boats hauled onto the sand, with sailors and workers. Claude Monet work depicting contemporary object matter, without idealization. His painting clearly depiction of forms and subjects, and exploring the possibilities of…

the 19th and Early 20th Century European Painting and Sculpture gallery on the second floor. There were many famous European paintings, which made me in a daze. I was attracted by several pictures at the beginning, but finally I chose Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.” Some of the things that caught my eyes about the painting was the peacefulness that I felt when I looked at the picture. Also I really liked the dress of everyone in the painting because it gave me that sense of…

Delft, created in 1661, is a well known paintings of the Dutch Golden Age. Depicting Vermeer's hometown, this oil painting shows the sky, city, and water divided. There are a few other Vermeer paintings of Delft, including The Little Street, which tells his viewers that where he is from is valuable to him. Techniques like this allowed Vermeer to use realism to share his life, events and beliefs during his life with his viewers. Vermeer’s hometown painting, View of Delft, depicts through light,…

making a painting begins with, ultimately, thinking too hard about the subject matter and composition. Once starting to determine subject matter, other painters are researched, such as Bonnard and Philip Guston. This gives ideas in terms of composition, color palette, and complexity of the subject matter. The influences of these two artists give a feel of less is more, which gives a sense of complexity in something so simple. The subject matter also determines the medium used for the painting.…

Vivas- Astara created an oil on canvas painting Catalan Scene in 1971 using oil paints. The painting is a landscape painting. The art piece shows the missions with a couple of houses surrounding it. All the houses are connected to each other but they are all different heights. The houses have red tiled roofs and white stucco walls. Close to the houses there is a body of water with trees and grass surrounding it. In the painting you can tell it’s a sunny day by how the painting depicts warm…

Vincent Van Gogh His Style A pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colours are used to generate secondary colours. It is an offshoot of Impressionism and is usually categorized as a form of Post-Impressionism. It is very similar to Divisionism, except that where Divisionism is concerned with colour theory, Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of brushwork used to apply the paint. The term "Post-Impressionism" was invented by the English painter and…

taken several trips to the Philbrook since attending Rogers State University, however this is the first time I really looked closely at the grandeur of the museum. The impeccable architecture and the art that fills the museum. There has been one painting inpaticular that I always revisit every time I go. I could stare at for days. The splendor of the old Philips home is magnificent. You can tell how much Waite Philips loved architecture not only in his wonderful home he built for him and his…

Henri Matisse’s “Harmony in Red (The Red Room)” is surely red. This painting utilizes a vibrant palette of color with Red being his primary color of choice. This is a painting of a women standing in a red room on the right side of the table, a profile view of her, appearing to assembling a fruit arrangement on the table. She appears to be a maid during the Victorian era by the way she is dressed with the high neck blouse a protective apron and the scalloping of the blouse at the wrists as well…