Oil painting

Symbol Example from story Importance Act 1: Nature “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.”- Lady Macbeth (Act 1 scene 5 line 72-73) “The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle sense.” - King Duncan (Act 1, Scene 6, Line 1-2) “... heaven’s breath smells wooingly here.” - Banquo (Act 1, Scene 6, Line 6-7) All of these lines compare Macbeth to something in nature. Lady Macbeth’s line says that Macbeth needs to look like a flower but really be a snake deep…

In the painting, “The Course of Empire destruction” by Thomas Cole he Drew a painting Depicting The fall of the Roman Empire. This is the Fourth piece out of a five part series of paintings. On the left of the painting you can see people on boats and a bridge that’s about to collapse. In the middle there’s gore, dead bodys, and a girl who’s being held by a soldier. On the right there’s more gore, dead bodies, broken pillars, and fire on top of the burning city. How to make mocha iced coffee,…

For my painting I choose to do something called “Oak Leaves” by Georgia O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe is known for her paintings of over sized flowers and has been called the “Mother of American Modernism”. Georgia is a very good artist and most of he paints are by things that inspire her. O’Keeffe trained to be a artist in Chicago. Her life revolved around her art. Georgia was born on November 15th,1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on a wheat farm. During her childhood she lived in mainly lived in Wisconsin…

Especially during that time, looking at other pieces of artwork that are from then as well as from similar regions of the world. There are no other paintings depicting instances from the bible that can be considered from an outsider angle, those of artists like William Blake and Dante Alighieri whom took Christianity into its darker side. While this painting in particular, all of the Sistine Chapel is beautiful and itself a complete and utter masterpiece, “Adam’s Creation” always stuck out to me…

I really wanted to do a comparison of Degas, and Cassatt, like Judith Beheading Holofernes in which both Gentileschi and Caravaggio, I felt since Degas and Cassatt had such a close relationship that was a possibility, but my research turned up nothing. I chose to compare Degas’s After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, and Cassatt’s Young Mother, Daughter, and Son, since both pieces were created using pastels. Both artist have a wide range of styles in their work, I will focus not on how they…

the most famous painters from the Renaissance era, is a man of mystery; no one knows anything about his childhood, birth, or family. The documents from his time were most likely lost, didn’t survive, or were never documented. He is known for his paintings in the courts, religious art works, portraits of famous figures, and himself. There aren’t many records of his early life. It is unknown about his birth because it was never documented by his mother and father or lost. Still, with the help of…

Upon visiting the Jack Shainman Gallery, I was captivated by a light installation piece of art made from a famous photograph. The name of the photograph is called “The Soiling of Old Glory” by Stanley Forman. This picture is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken in Boston during a riot in front of a courthouse in 1976 (Highbrow). The exhibition I chose to study belongs to Hank Willis Thomas and is called What We Ask Is Simple. Just with reading the name alone I was intrigued. To view this…

The photograph of the Bath, Pocono Palace was taken in 1980 at Marshall Creek in Pennsylvania by Lucinda Devlin. This was for her series of Pleasure Ground photos. I will say that this is a photograph taken upside down of the bathtub and that the size is 14 fonts. The reason for this photograph of choice was because it gave me a sense of memory while the other pieces of artwork gave me no satisfaction. Since I was examining this photograph, I was intrigued by its one-point linear perspective,…

The artwork The Parc Monceau made in 1878 by Claude Monet is an oil on canvas painting. The painting is 28 5/8 inches horizontally by 21 3/8 inches vertically. I discovered this piece of art online through the Metropolitan Museum of Art website located in New York, New York, along with many other of his art pieces, but this one I appreciated the most. The Parc Monceau is a representational and figurative painting because it depicts scenery we see in real life as well as people just slightly…

However, there is one great masterwork of painting influenced me the most. It was draw by the celebrated English artist Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) and entitled The Dead Soldier(1789). The exceptional 49 ¾ x 64-inch painting has been principally known through a smaller version painted by Wright and housed in its original carved wood and gilded frame. Joseph Wright, the English professional landscape and portrait painter has drawn many well-known oil paintings, and the most famous ones…