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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…

I. Description (write 3-4 sentences describing the work) Things to consider: materials, techniques, category (landscape, portrait, etc), style used, etc. It appears that the artist used oil paint as their medium for this portrait. Based on the year the painting was created, it is likely that the painting was done on wood rather than canvas. This portrait is formal and reserved. It represents the Italian specialty of idea beauty. II. Formal Analysis (write 5-6 sentences describing things like…

The Therapeusist Rene Magritte’s piece of art called The Therapeutist. This piece of art work was completed in 1937. To add in this artwork was created in the period of surrealism. The painting show an image of a rusty metal bird cage with a square wood plank on the outside of the cage door. The image also shows a dark orange-red blanket covering the back and sides of the cage, and a hat topping of the cage. Also the setting of the art work looks to be at the beach, with light blue…

Christ Rejected by the Elders in the Temple The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) houses some of Philadelphia’s oldest, most historic and most renowned pieces of artwork in its Landmark Building built in 1876. Naturally, I felt it was my duty to peruse PAFA in hopes of finding a Philadelphian artifact that interested me. I stumbled upon the gigantic 200 x 260 in. (52,000 in2) oil painting, Christ Rejected (by the Elders in the Temple), created by Philadelphian artist of the 18th-19th…

Fresno Art Museum: An Exceptional Experience Upon visiting the Fresno Art Museum, I was pleasantly greeted with several local as well as world renowned paintings, sculptures, pottery, and murals. There were numerous exhibits dedicated to art, Latin American pottery, and even one fully devoted to Gary Soto, a Fresno native, whose children’s books were displayed in the museum along with paintings from the illustrations of his several acclaimed books. The overall environment was filled with great…

The Pastoral Concert is an oil painting, which was painted either by Giorgione or his pupil Titian. Modern critics are back and forth on the subject, but the most widely accepted theory is that the master Giorgione began the painting, and after his death, his pupil Titian completed the work. The painting portrays two nude women, one standing and pouring a pitcher of water, and the other lounging on the grass, paused attentively with a flute in her hand. The women appear robust by today’s…

The portrait, ‘Bond of Union’, by MC Escher, was created in 1956, and depicts Escher’s wife and himself. Their heads are joined together in the portrait, so as to represent that they were molded from the same clay. Two are staring at each other, while their heads seem to be peeling. The portrait is composed of the faces and ordered, molecular spheres along a black background. The two figures seem to be peeling as an apple or orange does. The connected heads represent the union between them,…

The first piece really inspired me because it had so much color and it had so much going on at the same time. It was almost like someone took a picture of a moving crowd. I saw plenty of things going on in that painting. Too much to describe in a short essay. But some of the things that I noticed were basic things that almost everyone saw. There was a snake that was eating a bird which is part of the cycle of course. Then I noticed that some of the animals were facing my direction as if looking…

The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe) was painted by 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…

For my Art History Museum paper I chose to visit the Chazen museum here in Madison to observe a piece of artwork that I wanted to 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…