Panel painting

Throwing a wringer into their plans, Henri Matisse captures a moment of pure shock, awe, and despair through his composition, painterly line work, and vibrant use of color. Within his painting, Bathers with a Turtle, Henri Matisse displays an intriguing and outspoken representation of human condition and expression. The painting towers over those around it, both in the grandiosity of its canvas, having its figures being only slightly smaller than life size, but also in the complexity of its…

Masaccio’s painting, The Expulsion from Paradise, is well known by many artists as well as many people especially religions such as Christianity, the Jewish, and Muslim. Masaccio’s painting is well known because it deals with religion and what happened to Adam and Eve in the first chapter of the Bible, Genesis 1:28. When I look at The Expulsion from Paradise, it demonstrates that the author used Christianity, representational art, warm colors, and lastly I see that he used value to make his…

main source of income for many Flemish artists (Kleiner, 555). Notably, portraits were usually used as gifts in order to insure remembrance or to assert higher authority. Flemish artists would embellish symbolic meanings in the details of their paintings. An example of this would be in Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin by Rogier Van Der Weyden, on the armrests it depicts Adam, Eve, and the serpent, this is to represent Mary as the new Eve and Christ as the new Adam who will redeem humanity from sin…

In 1509, an artist named Raphael was hired to paint a historical mural in the library at St. Peter’s church in Rome. Raphael envisioned the entire classical world into a small community of intellects. He did so by filling the mural with references and symbols from the past and present during this time. School of Athens, portrays a gathering of philosophers into a hall, with Plato and Aristotle as the center focal point. This mural was created at sixteen feet tall by twenty-five feet wide with…

Old Art Education Analytic Research Paper: Light And Shade With Chapters On Charcoal, Pencil, And Brush Drawing: A Manual For Teachers And Students Understanding the basic concepts and fundamentals of art is essential to creating good art work. Instruction in drawing must be built upon the principles which underlie the most successful in art (Cross, 1892). It is crucial to a student's development to show them how to visualize, imagine, and work independently. As an individual the arts can…

Scene after a Shipwreck shows off the romanticism movement by showing the aftermath of a shipwreck as the passengers make their way from the vicious ocean waves to the rocky shoreline. Like all romantic paintings this pieces shows the power of nature compared to man (fig.1). It is an oil painting on 23 1/4 x 28 3/8 inches or 59 x 72 centimeters canvas. As there is no confirmed date of completion it is presumed to have been completed circa 1825 and is currently in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art…

Ernst Kitzinger finds the way the artist characterizes the spatial illusion of the mosaic most significant. He notes that, the artist uses different techniques from other paintings to create this spatial illusion. The author is trying to demonstrate that the mosaic has different sections as it relates to the planes. He argues that the scale of these planes are not uniformed. While Thomas Mathew’s discussion reflects symbolism. He argues that this image is of Christ but it doesn’t have any…

happened to the girl angel. Upon closer inspection a viewer notices that the left wing of the angel at the bottom is slightly torn. Bright white wing slightly stained with blood. The overall feeling of the painting is peaceful and melancholic. Hugo Simberg never disclosed what was the painting about. Does it represent the earthly start, helping the spirit, and the spirit, immersed in the Earth's beginning? If…

Art work neatly lines the being colored walls of a standard sized room in the University of Arizona’s Museum of Art. Hanging next to an oil painting of a vibrant rainbow gracing the sky of what could easily be downtown Tucson, is a piece of art work the elegantly displays the stark black wing of a plane gliding over a town or city that’s been brought to life with small dots of color. That piece of artwork is American Artist Yvonne Jacquette’s “Night Wing View 1”, a 15-color screenprint published…

After a thorough examination, I chose to discuss two of Jonathan Green’s works because they were in a medium that I am the most familiar with and they spoke to me in a way that none of the other works did. My personal favorite was a monumental oil painting entitled “Seeking, which was created in 2006, on a very large stretched canvas. It was by far the most eye catching picture in the gallery, with its bright and demanding shades of reds and greens. A tv was set up nearby playing a documentary…