Portrait painting

This portrait is a painting of tycoon Jay Gould painted in 1896 by American artist Eastman Johnson. Johnson is a somewhat famous artist known for his paintings of high ranking Washington officials from the time period and several other of his portraits are featured at the National Portrait Gallery. From an early age, Johnson manifested a natural taste for drawing and sketching, and used his talents to draw portraits of his family and friends. When his father earned a high post in Washington D.C.…

Adele by using symbolic language in his portraits. He did two paintings of her, one of which was supposed to be displayed at her wedding. The purpose of this paper is to find out how Gustav Klimt uses symbolism to portray Adele elegance and grace which insinuate at a relationship between them. It also seeks to explore the inspiration and the idea behind Adele’s portrait. He specialized mostly in architectural and landscape painting; he also drew portraits of people. Growing up Klimt main…

Many pieces of art were looted during the holocaust by Hitler and the Nazis. Later, men were sent out to find all of the missing art. These men were named the Monuments Men. Many of the art stolen were paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Henri Matisse, while other pieces of art that were stolen were sculptors. But Hitler's main reason for stealing art was for an idea he had. Hitler had an idea that required a lot of famous art. It was rumored that he was going to build a “super museum”…

In “Portrait of My Mother” by Phillip Evergood, the artist uses both value and shape as well as proportion and gradation to illustrate the beauty of his mother while she was in physical pain in the last days of her life. Evergood, born in 1901 and died in 1973, began this work while his mother was dying in a hospital and subsequently completed it after her death. The portrait is oil on canvas and panel, and is a featured work in Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas. Furthermore, Evergood uses…

Cubism is a very di erent style of painting, and some may think that it is strange and not very visually appealing. The aesthetic rules of individual human brain may nd it di cult to follow, however, if broken into pieces, the color, perspective, and composition may nd a way to appeal and tell the story that is hidden within. Pablo Picasso executed this awlessly, and created the title for himself, the face of Cubism. Pablo Picasso was born October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. He came from a…

his most famous paintings that is still surviving is his portrait Mona Lisa. She was known as La Gioconda, the wife of a merchant, Francesco del Giocondo; the painting is in three-quarter view and she is seated on a stone balcony (Fiero 198). Mona Lisa is not abstract but is lifelike and realistic. The viewer can see the whole upper torso of her body placed. She is in an elegant green mossy flow fit dress. The painting is a lady who appears to be mid-late 20s. Mona Lisa’s portrait appears to be…

married. Leonardo started painting while he was still a boy. The painting shows the last meal shared by Jesus with his disciples, before his capture and death. Leonardo chose to paint the moment when Jesus has said "one of you will betray me", so the painting have name The last supper. Leonardo tells the story of the surprise and upset that this caused to the twelve followers of Jesus. My favorite feeling in this painting, I think this painting has feel of the people in painting. Some of them…

Flanders. This oil on panel artwork, however is not like most portraits; in fact, this is a full-length double portrait. Many scholars and historians believe that this is one of the most complex early western art. The actual painting is domestic in scale. Nonetheless, the details are so fine it is possible to make out two figures in a tiny mirror. The way that Van Eyck accomplished this is by the technique he used to layer the painting. Because unlike artists of the time that used tempera that…

inclusion of an interior space is groundbreaking itself (if we consider the Arnolfini Portrait (fig.2) as a kind of certificate rather than a portrait), but the depiction in Christus’s painting seems immature and the depth of the room defies common sense. As the figure seems too large for this narrow space, it could be inferred that the perspective may not accord with nature and that the background was added to the painting to suggest space. Hans Memling, a German-born artist who was…

between a young boy and an older gentleman while still maintaining an honest realism. To better understand this painting, one must first gain a basic knowledge about the history of Ghirlandaio. Ghirlandaio…