Panel painting

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 eyes, circle…

sense of peace for one to just be able to empty the mind and look at the beautiful side of things. In this piece I will attempt to step into the shoes of the artist by looking at the elements used to create this artwork. The image it-self is not a painting though at first observation I believed it to…

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 Milkmaid”…

mirrored image with the way the birds are placed. If you spin the image upside down you can see practically the same image. I fine the detail in this image to be what really stands out to me. The colors and texture of the birds are what really makes the painting look so…

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…

I am a Painting I student attending Lakeland Union Highschool and I am in 9th grade. Throughout the semester I completed an acrylic close up of blueberries, an acrylic butterfly stained glass, an oil balloon gradation, an oil still life and an oil 12x12 free choice. I chose to do an oil painting, because I was getting used to the oil techniques.The picture that I chose shows depth as the layout is, an old red van, surrounded by darkish, tall trees that line the road, along with a rail, a…

The work that I have chosen from a previous discussion would be Pic Island by Lawren S. Harris which is held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. This piece of art I have always enjoyed looking at. I find calming paintings very nice to look at, I'm not much into the whole scary dark and stormy art pieces that people have made in the past. Everyone has an opinion on what the world looks like to them, many don't actually create what is called art, but when someone does, it’s their expression…

In the 19th Century American Art section of the Dallas Museum of Art is a large oil painting on canvas that grasps the attention of the entire room. American painter, Fredric Edwin Church, created “The Icebergs” in 1861. The glowing painting is exceptionally large, measuring in at 85 x 133 x 5 inches framed. The painting itself is 64 ½ x 112 ½ inches. “The Icebergs” is a landscape painting, which depicts multiple icebergs floating in the ocean under a beautiful, slightly cloudy sky. One iceberg…

The extensive collection of impressionist paintings and post-impressionists, the largest outside of the Louvre in Paris. It is so powerful, it could stay there for hours. It is located between the presentations more significant of the paintings and sculptures European. It is including more than 3,500 works from the twelfth century until the twentieth century A sunday afternoon on the island of la Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat is the most famous piece in the collection of the Art Institute…

For starters, the first painting was filled with several figures and warm hues. The background was dominantly a light brown wall with shades of blue and green mixed in. There were five figures in this painting; the first is a young girl. She was very pail with a shad of folly in her cheeks and light brown eyes. Her hair was a shade of light golden blonde and a braid at the summit gave the deception of her having a headband on top of her head. She had one tiny white Peony in her hair with other…