Painting techniques

In the famous painting “The Arnolfini Portrait” by Jan van Eyck, Giovanni is holding his wife’s hand in such a way, as if he is presenting her as his property or his treasure. Another point to be made about the painting is that Giovanna is facing towards her husband while posing, whereas Giovanni is facing towards the artist who is painting the picture and holding his hand up, which creates an idea for the viewer that he is the more dominant and of the most importance out of everyone and…

The Painting of riverside scene at Qingming festival, is the creative work of Zhang Zeduan of northern Song Dynasty. This painting is found in the palace museum as a national treasure in the Beijing City. The 528.7cm by 24.8cm scroll represents economic activities in urban and countryside areas. People of all ranks and their daily lives from the city of Bianjing during Qingming Festival which occurred in the Northern Song Dynasty are captured in this painting as well. The painting has three…

The first image is an orientalist painting which represents a forbidden harem. Maryanne Stevens in The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse outlines that a piece of art can be identified as “orientalist” by looking at two major elements: 1) the subject matter, and 2) the technique. (Stevens, 15). In this case, the subject matter presents the inner happenings of a Sultan’s harem. The image of the forbidden harem allows this European painter to visually manifest the Orient. The man on the elevated…

Throughout the paper, the question of how and to what extent early Netherlandish painting influenced Leonardo’s paintings of the High Renaissance has been discussed. By showing how Early Netherlandish artists may have influenced their Italian successors, we could set the foundation through comparison. Then, by discussing the characteristic of chiaroscuro in each period, we could see the direction of development in this technique in portraiture. Finally, by analyzing Leonardo da Vinci’s advanced…

In the art world, there are lots of artists who stand out. These people usually have had a big impact on art culture through cultivating new techniques or just being extremely good at their craft. Some of these people are recognized during their lives, but a good amount of them are rediscovered only a long time after their death. No matter when or how they are discovered, they still hold an important place in art’s long history. Two of these significant people happen to be Vermeer and Caravaggio…

Her shocking, revealing story is brought home by a complex, and effective, narrative technique. Works Cited and Consulted Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Anchor Books: New York, New York, 1985. Conboy, Sheila C. "Scripted, Conscripted, and Circumscribed: Body Language in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Anxious…

student from Porterville. Lizbeth Andrade uses many different art techniques to give the meaning or message of her art work. Lizbeth Andrade uses water colors which are pigments suspended into water-soluble glue and ink a colored fluid to create her art piece. The art piece consists of animism because it uses nature as a spiritual force. The objects used in her art work are a spiritual force because when…

Gentileschi portrays herself in Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (1630s). Note, this a very different approach because Gentileschi not only shows herself painting, but also shows herself as the very allegory of painting. An allegory can be defined as a figure that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, and acts like a personification. In this instance, Gentileschi displays herself epitomizing the very act of painting. She symbolizes it. Also, notice that Gentileschi breaks away…

expression in it. The fact that he took different meaning to everything he painted was what made me admire him. I even remember the class doing group projects and my group chose to paint something to similar to the works of Jackson Pollock. His paintings seem to have a pattern in them, a mix of different colors that blend well together and make of this mixture an astonishing piece. His journey was not an easy one to handle,…

us through the history of art and what was considered important during those years. The next chapter is about oil paintings. As economies grew so did people’s want for materialistic objects. At the time, oil paintings were the only visuals and each were one of a kind. Oil painting developed with the classes. Classes became tied to having money, no matter how one got it, oil painting changed to reflect this. Not only was there a desire for…