Panel painting

René Magritte in Belgium, 1929. The painting was painted onto a canvas using oil. The canvas is measured to 23 ¾ x 31 15/16 x 1 inch (60.33 x 81.12 x 2.54 cm). And its frame to 30 7/8 x 39 1/8 x 3 in. (78.42 x 99.38 x 7.62 cm). It was purchased with funds provided by the Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection (78.7). It is currently on display in the 2nd floor of the Ahmanson Building, located at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). This painting appears to be of a pipe,…

I’ve always enjoyed Impressionist art, but only recently became aware of Gustave Caillebotte’s “The Floor Scrapers,“ painted in 1875. The oil canvas is so unusually realistic that it really caught my eye. Here are three men planning a floor--perhaps it’s new, or an old one being refinished--and their really hard work (I’ve done the same job) is so strikingly at odds with the elegant room they are in, that the picture intrigues me. I can almost smell the raw wood, and the men’s sweat. We are in a…

furthermore dig into. As I walked through the museum, the artwork appeared to be very organized in each area. On the second floor, the painting that really caught my eyes was one done in 1880. The artwork is an oil painting created on canvas with an old man and a little child in it. The painting was, In Grandfather’s Arms, by the artist Jozef Israëls. The painting seems to be very realistic. In it, a child is sitting on his grandfather 's lap while the grandfather is comforting the child. This…

and continued until his death in 1441. While Van Eyck was active, he created many well-known paintings. According to John Haber, Van Eyck was a portraitist who was the first to paint in oils (pg.1). One of his most famous works is Wedding Portrait, or Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride. This painting depicts a man and a woman holding hands in matrimony with many symbolic objects surrounding them. The painting was created in 1434 and currently resides at the National Gallery in London. Haber…

81 inches, The Barnes Foundation, Marion, PA. I will be discussing what the painting portrays, the materials used for the painting, the form and context of the painting. I will also be discussing the coherence, correspondence, and completeness of the painting. The painting of Paul Cezanne subject matter portrays nudity, all the men and women in the oil painting are nude. I can tell the gender of the people in the painting by the breast’s. They are emphasized with more rounded chest area than…

naturalistic rendering of each item portrayed. The proportions are natural which creates balance when viewing the piece and moving across the painting. The proportions are all realistic so no item looks abnormally large or small, the details such as the windows reflecting in the wineglass support these natural proportions. The colors used in this painting are beautiful and rich. Various shades of brown, yellow, white, and orange emphasized with shades of grey and stark black. Each color…

The painting I choice is called My Medusa and was made by Randy Kirksey. The painting is one of the few paintings at the Merced Multicultural Art Center in Merced that were not digital prints which already made this painting pop to my eyes. This paint is a oil painting and a two dimensional painting on canvas. This work is a fairly new painting as My Medusa was made just one year ago in 2015. I just absolutely love Greek Mythology so I had to write about this painting. Once I saw the familiar…

came across a specific piece by Hung Liu, titled Huang-Jun: Imperial Warriors drawn in a oil canvas in 2001. This painting depicts a group of possibly Chinese soldiers. The group of soldiers seem to be part of the medical staff during a time of war since they’re all wearing red crosses on their chests and the background of the image seems harsh. Hung Liu is no strange to drawing paintings related to this subject since she is known for drawing about things related to life and war is certainly…

The painting I have chosen is on Display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is named Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff, painted in 1859 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter of Germany. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Winterhalter was trained to paint in Germany, he went on to paint many European Aristocrats. He painted the 24 year old Countess, wife of Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff. In her lap is a book of poetry, which was inspired by Winterhalter to pain because…

humanity to take better care of our aquatic environments. The painting maintained the original concept to the end, though the process had to be modified slightly. The planned procedure was that I would do an acrylic base with an oil painting finish, but instead this painting ended up being simply acrylic. This was mostly due to the fact that I was working on unstretched canvas and I planned on stretching it…