Oil painting

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Describe The title of this painting is called the Ship of Fools by Hieronymus Bosch. It was painted around 1490 to 1500. Bosch used oil on wood. This painting is 58 centimeters by 33 centimeters. In this painting, there are about twelve people. They are either naked in the water or wearing pilgrim-like clothing. There is one person, however, who is dressed in all white with pointed ears sitting on a tree branch. The first thing I see is a man in the water. My gaze then moved up through the…

Museum is home to multiple paintings including Charles Christian Nahl And A little Child Shall Lead them and his The Love Chase . The date And A Little Child Shall Lead Them is unfortunately unknown. And A Little Child Shall Lead Them painting is approximately 3’x3’. The Love Chase is a five-part series that consists of two 6’ x 5’ and three 3’x4’ paintings. The paintings are dated in 1869. And A little Child Shall Lead Them and The Love Chase are both oil-on-canvases completed…

Micro theme 3. For micro theme 3, I will compare and contrast two works of art. The painting, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, painted by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer in the 17th century and the photograph of an underwater installation of a concrete statue/bust of a human form called Viccisitudes by Jason de Caires Taylor’s 21st century work. I will describe the works of art and the time periods of their inception. I will discuss how different each setting is that the artists chose for…

The artwork I have chosen is titled, “American Gothic”, by Grant Wood, painted in 1930. Grant Wood painted on a 74.3 X 62.2 cm piece of oil on beaverboard. These materials give the painting an old timing look but with good color and contrast. This painting can be viewed at the Art Institute of Chicago. Now I’m going to describe this painting in more detail, so that you can see a visual picture in your head. The white male in the artwork has very thin brown hair; with thick bushy eyebrows; brown…

The Wake (also titled El Velorio) is a genre painting by José María Jara. It was painted in 1889 and is 70 inches by 52 inches. The medium is oil on canvas. It depicts a sad, somber scene of a group of people, most likely the family, mourning a lost loved one. Analysis To some, if not all people, the focal point is the bright candle and figure in the almost exact center of the painting. Then there's an abundance of diagonal lines radiating from said candle, leading your eye downwards into the…

It is an oil on canvas painting and it on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Vermeer was a Dutch painter who liked to get his ideas from middle class life. He used a lot of monochrome shades of grey, browns, greys, and then he would apply primary colors, reds, blues, and yellows on top, to form a transparent looking painting. He used expensive pigments to illustrate the lighting in the painting, which then helped reflect the many colors he used for the background of each painting. “The…

painted this portrait in 1873 and it was now found at The Metropolitan Museum. The material that was used is called oil on canvas, according to the tag that was placed by this painting. Unfortunately, the size of the painting was not listed on the right side tag of the portrait, but it was a nice big painting. As I continue with this paper, I will be discussing into details about this painting using the four steps of writing an art criticism, also known as the Feldman’s Method. The first…

in 1789, an artist by the name of John Martin was born. During this time, the Biblical movement was in effect. Every piece of art, music, paintings, books were shaped by the ideas drawn from the Bible. Many artists were interested in recreating how they believed events in the Bible looked like. John Martin is one artist that creates panoramic landscape paintings inspired by these historical events. The ideas of Romanticism and Realism are expressed heavily in artwork during the Biblical…

upon the gigantic 200 x 260 in. (52,000 in2) oil painting, Christ Rejected (by the Elders in the Temple), created by Philadelphian artist of the 18th-19th century, Benjamin West, on the left flank of the uppermost wing. The top tier of PAFA’s Landmark Building is almost entirely Benjamin West paintings. Directly across from Christ Rejected in symmetrical display is another one of West’s most well known paintings, Death on A Pale Horse. Both paintings are set under massive arches and embellished…