Painting

The reasoning behind the mix of styles Pontormo’s painting shows may have stemmed from many different sources. In particular, the historical and cultural events surrounding Italy in the early 1500s could have been a factor in the departure from the classicism and naturalism of the High Renaissance. The discovery of Heliocentrism by Copernicus in 1512 was a major deviation from what people had believed to be true for centuries. This dramatic shift in normal thought could have prompted an…

In Vermeer’s Hat, Timothy Brook displays a variety of paintings by Johannes Vermeer. From the paintings, Brook connects them with events that are occurring in Europe during the seventeenth century. Through Brook’s perspective, the paintings are taken into consideration its importance in telling the events that involve a piece or a part of the painting. Along with the paintings’ importance, Brook also a displayed of a wider connection between each chapter and how it creates a main argument of…

Delaware is an oil on canvas painting by Emmanuel Leutze. Leutze was a German - American artist who lived from 1816 until 1868; Washington Crossing the Delaware was created in 1851 (metmuseum.org). The painting is 12ft 5in. by 21ft. 3in and is in good condition; there does not appear to be any damage. Washington Crossing the Delaware is currently on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is displayed in a gallery with other American paintings from the same time period.…

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…

sketched the painting before two years of painting this original version. The work in Andre Derain artwork is a colorful presentation describing the village life. However, in the Frederic Edwin Church artwork is more natural which describes the painting of the real life. The value of the Andre Derain painting has more lightness and the one by Frederic Edwin Church is more darkness. This painting can be described in Formal and Stylistic analysis. Using the formal analysis, the Church’s painting…

The oil painting View from Mount Holyoke by Thomas Cole is a stunning aerial view of the landscape at Mount Holyoke. The painting was painted at Northampton Massachusetts after a thunderstorm. View from Mount Holyoke was first shown to the world at the National Academy of Design in 1836. The painting was long known as The Oxbow. Using the elements and principles of design, Cole created a masterpiece in American landscape paintings. Cole incorporated many elements of design in View from Mount…

hangs the painting titled “Home Sweet Home”. This oil on canvas was created by the artist Charles Sheeler in 1931. The painting contains a few pieces of furniture. In the center is an empty wooden chair. On the left, you can see two rugs and a staircase that is leading upstairs. On the right, you can see a fireplace and a stove. Near the bottom of the painting you can make out a picnic table, it’s chopped off the painting but enough is there to tell what the object is. The painting also…

In his painting " Going to the Olympics " by Frank Romero's it's very interesting because his painting has so many different things in it which he had iron and two men reselling and other stuff but it has a meaning to because that's why he painting it. A meaning can also, be that he loves the city of Los Angeles. Frank Romero's likes his painting because we're he drew it really pops out because the cars have a heart on top of them and that's what bring it out. Plus he drew it under the freeway…

The famous very dark painting that shows pain and chaos on innocent civilians. Picasso was working on a mural for the Paris Exhibition that was to be held in the summer of 1937.This lead to the Spanish Civil war lasted from 1936-1939 which was seen as an anti-war. Picasso discontinued his idea of that mural on May 1st, 1937 so that he could be working on the painting Guernica. He did this because of the bombing that happen in his country. Throughout the painting created a atmosphere of the…

drawn to Jesus. The painting might look like it is proportioned correctly, but in fact it is not. Jesus , who is seated, is the same size as the apostle standing on the left side of the painting. By making Jesus bigger than all the other apostles Leonardo is showing Jesus’s importance, something older artist did called hieratic perspective. Leonardo was always experimenting and his “Last Supper” is a result of his experimentation. Leonardo did not take the traditional route of painting on…