Panel painting

fabrics, another clear indication of Duccio’s work. Using color and light, the artist then draws attention to Mary’s gaze in this painting, by brightening the tone of Mary’s skin on the bridge of her nose and slightly in her cheeks. It’s then that the viewer can see and begin to sense the strong connection, the maternal bond between Mary and her baby. In the later painting, Madonna and Child, by an unknown follower of Rogier, the artist takes care in the use of both hard and soft lines in the…

strikingly innovative artist influencing several key figures of the Baroque art. Under the tutelage of Phillipp Uffenbach, a skilled Frankfurt artist whose Italian experience garnered him the status of a sought-after replicator of famous Italian paintings back in Germany ('Adoration of the Magi' among others), Elsheimer spent his formative years learning the fundamentals of German Renessaince art. Around 1598, Elsheimer travelled to Italy with the goal of learning from the most famed artists of…

The Scream, Edvard Munch, 1893, Oil Painting,  35.75" X 29", Figure 11.28 The narrative depicted in this piece is one of hysteria, and paranoia. The scene is set on the edge of some type of wooden pier, or bridge, that stands over some body of water. The perspective from which the viewer sees seems slightly elevated above the focus of the painting, as if we are meant to look ever so slightly down at the moment taking place in the image. We only see a small portion of the wooden construct. We…

Titian, Venus and Adonis vs. Rubens, Venus and Adonis The paintings are very similar. Each of them tells the story of Venus and Adonis. Their lover and passionate scene where Venus tries to prevent Adonis from going to the place where he died. Adonis tries to leave, but turns to look at his beloved. A penetrating and passionate look. In both paintings the guard dogs of Adonis are observed, thus interpret them, which are ready to impart the march towards its destination. The colors are very…

Saint of Protection The painting of El Archangel Michael is the attributed to Juan Correa of Mexico. It is oil on canvas portrait style of painting, in which the artist has made use of implied lights space to bring the piece to life and to truly personify the Archangel Michael as a powerful other worldly entity. The painting represents Saint Michael, the guardian of faith from the Roman mythology, making it is a religious piece of art. The painting has vertical lines and is more taller than…

In Michael Ondaatje’s novel, Billy’s visual impressions are described as monochrome photography repeatedly throughout the entire book. The tones of grey and the exposure of light are used to illustrates places and time events as if it was a series of frames. For example, Billy is describing what he sees as if it was a monochrome photography, in which there is light and “the color grey with remnants of brown” (13). As a camera would, he is scanning “the thirty or so grey cans in one corner of the…

This map is officially titled “Moore-McCormack Lines Pictorial Map of South America,” It was painter by Ernest Dudley Chase in 1942 and Published by Rand McNally in Chicago. Ernest Dudley Chase, a graphic artist, lived from 1878 to 1966 and was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. From there he attended the Lowell Textile School and later the Vesper George Art School of Boston. When he was around 22 years old, Chase joined the Butterfield Printing Company and in 1906 switched to the W. T. Sheehan…

Whenever anything is out in the open, removed from the private into the larger social culture it will inevitably be interpreted by people who view it. They may take this information and further encode the what they see appropriating it with its own new interpretation to be decoded. In Jeff Koons life sized porcelain sculpture titled Michael Jackson and Bubbles he uses appropriation techniques to create a dialogue between the encoded and decoded messages the piece could create as well as the…

jumbies, and make papier mache fishes in art class. As a child art was a consequential part of my cultural upbringing. One might ask, what are you doing now to preserve Virgin Islands culture? Well, I endeavor to preserve my culture with every painting that I engender and with every art edification that I edify. I am thankful to the…

The 19th century American potter George Ohr (1857-1918) is an important ceramic artist associated with the American Arts and Crafts movement. With an emphasis on emotion, gesture and pure form, Ohr’s idiosyncratic clay vessels forecast Abstract Expressionist sculpture. His passionate personal, individual vision and rebellious, theatrical persona distinguish him as one of America’s most original and eccentric artists. Ohr was born in Biloxi, Mississippi to a blacksmith and learned the potter’s…