Painting

influential artists known to all: Leonardo Da Vinci, a visionary of many talents that strongly revolutionized the world of art, notably in conceptual art, painting and sculpture. Da Vinci was known for many things especially his paintings. The paintings that will be discussed are “Lady with the Ermine”, “The Last Supper” and “The Mona Lisa.” The painting “The Lady and the Ermine” is believed to created from 1482-1483 in Milan. There are multiple theories about who the woman is. The first…

of the ghostly angels above. The painting shows a dominant characteristic of Tintoretto’s, the recession of the table cutting the picture and creating an illusion of rapid spatial movement (Adams 374). This use of dramatic perspective was mixed with the unusual artistic device of the ‘exploding center’ (Murray et al 608). The focal point of this image, Jesus and his halo, appear as a sort of explosion in the receding calmness of the rest of the image. The painting is dominated by darkness, the…

Greco, was born on 1541 in Greece. El Grecos painting of the Assumption of the Virgin was surely a central element inside one of the many art gallery rooms at the Art Institue of Chicago. It was El Greco’s first major commission in Toledo. It illustrates Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus, being uplifted from her tomb, into heaven. Its approximate size stands nearly 12-13ft x 6.5-7ft. The style of technique used of this painting was oil on canvas. This painting, with its details, style, and story…

this is a full-length double portrait. Many scholars and historians believe that this is one of the most complex early western art. The actual painting is domestic in scale. Nonetheless, the details are so fine it is possible to make out two figures in a tiny mirror. The way that Van Eyck accomplished this is by the technique he used to layer the painting. Because unlike artists of the time that used tempera that dried relatively quickly, Eyck’s oil paint dried much slower and allowed for small…

art which mirrors contemporary culture and society. Dorothea Rockburne uses multiple different colors throughout her painting. The artist uses complementary colors that tug equally at the eye. She uses a dynamic contrast of red and green to two of the shapes. Due to this, the artist keeps the viewers eyes from resting on one area of the composition for far too long. In this painting, Dorothea uses value contrast to show the differences in dark and light. While some tones appear lighter due to…

Christina’s World was his introduction into the “evolution of his own private language of metaphor.” As positioned in the painting, Christina lays where the painter first recognized her steadfast ambition, explaining, that she "was limited physically but by no means spiritually." Art historians vary among their opinions on what type of art movement is present in the piece, some refer the painting as being magical realism with its attention to detail, while others…

religion and that's where the creation of adam comes into play. For this project we bought wax melted it and then shaped our hands like god and adams in the painting. Gods hand (jessica) is very determined and is extending one finger as in…

tell someone else, but that someone else walks away mid-story. You are that someone else, the artist is giving a story to a canvas, and if you don’t give the canvas the same amount of time that the artist gave it, you won’t hear the whole story. Paintings that are abstractions are the most important applicant to this rule. They are the hardest to understand and are never truly felt the first time you look at them. The title of this piece is called “Summer Image (For My Mother)” and is an…

France. It wasn’t before long until archaeologists got their hands on these cave paintings, and starting dissecting any artifacts that were on the scene (Lascaux, New World Encyclopedia). These Paleolithic paintings demonstrated their explicit Stone Age artwork, current culture, and human development (Lascaux, New World Encyclopedia). But by 1979, the caves were closed to the public in order to preserve the paintings and decrease any more deterioration. Only certain archaeologists and…

accident. After Cosquer discovered the cave, he made the amazing cave a secret, however ,he went back several times. One day when Henri went with a group of divers to the cave Henri discovered the paintings. So he decided to contact an archaeologist. He asked Jean Courtin to come observe the paintings, however , Jean Courtin responded and said he couldn't do it due to the fact that he wasn’t a diver. So Jean Courtin contacted Jean Clotte an archaeologist and a diver he accepted to go to the cave…