Panel painting

still life vanitas: In the arts, vanitas is one of the symbolic work of art especially linked a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability, also it is connected with other places and periods. The word vanitas it is actually a Lation word means "vanity" and loosely translated agree to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. As applied to vanitas art, the word…

Théodore Géricault Le Radeau de La Méduse (the raft of the medusa) French Romantic artist (1798-1863) oil painting Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) is an influential French painter and lithographer. The Raft of the Medusa is known for his most famous piece, which is an oil painting on canvas completed during 1818 to 1819, when he was in the age of 27. The painting depicts the scene of the aftermath when a shipwreck occured, this is referred to a real event happened on…

its big opening this Friday. It will look over the 60 year journey through painting of Frank, and his 70 large artworks accompanied by drawings, prints, photographs and studies. This exhibition starts from his days at the peak of the New York art world as a Minimalist prodigy, when he developed his skills of abstract painting, through his mischief years as Minimalism’s most prominent renegade. Mr. Stella began by painting himself without any expectations and he…

Air Pump is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby (An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump). Painted in 1768, oil paint on canvas, it serves to express the Industrial Revolution (An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump). The painting’s dimensions are 183 centimeters tall and 244 centimeters wide (An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump). This paper’s purpose will be to analyze and interpret not only Wright’s art, but his life and era as well in an effort to determine if this painting is a…

One of her paintings simply titled “Hope” gives a feeling of an optimistic future. The painting media is oil on canvas. The painting presents child with her back to us. She is wearing a white dress with red and blue flowers, as she seems to be walking away slowly. She is surrounded by children drawings floating all around…

Demoiselles d’Avignon was a large oil painting painted by Pablo Picasso in 1907. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon essentially means the Ladies of Avignon. It took Picasso seven sketches in order to get his masterpiece to perfection. Pablo at the beginning stages of sketching had been deciding whether to incorporate males or females but he settled on females. This painting portrays five naked female prostitutes in a brothel (modern day strip club).The women in the painting have masks on their face that…

One aspect that could have hampered his growing popularity, is that his art did not follow current social issues that shaped the time. In the 1980’s and 90’s was a decade of change in the art world. There was a rise in cultural inequalities that was expressed with different medium and style. Along with this, there was the growing media exposure and the technology of the Internet (Allenchey). Lots of changes of social issues and media technical developments that Chia’s artwork did not confront.…

disregard of representing different people and cultures to a Western society. Women are sculpted holding flowers and appearing serene and unaffected as women were supposed be. In the sculpture, they are taking care of children which shows the belief that women must be motherly and calm. In the center plaque, perhaps one of the most troubling aspects, is Christopher Columbus. The decision to place him in the center of the sculpture, indicates the importance of his presence and may signify that he…

The Image I chose is a black and white photograph created by Edward Weston titled “Cabbage Leaf”. Edward was a photographer who started taking photos at the age of sixteen when he was given his first camera. His Artwork is comprised of real people, places and things in photographs. Edward was very talented at photographing an object and putting it in a new perspective to the viewer of his photos. He gave objects in his photos passion and emotions that they were not originally associated with.…

Sieste” (Millet, Jean Francoise, and “La Sieste”) and “Siesta” (Van Gogh, Vincent, and “Siesta”) illustrate an assumed couple resting after a long day’s work, however the emotional tones depicted by the artists are distinctly different. Millet’s painting “La Sieste” seems to display a more distressed or uneasy feeling whereas Van Goughs piece “Siesta” appears to be a more pleasant slumber. Millet’s use of colors and line work undeniably portrays a harsher and more realistic view of how an…