Realist painters

It has been said that the Renaissance was developed after the Medieval Age with the fall of the Byzantine Empire and began with the Modern Era. The characteristics of the Northern Renaissance were the thoroughness in the details, inclusion of the naturalism, and human figure. In the painting of Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride we can easily notice all the specifics characteristic owned by the Renaissance in the North. First, the precisely in the details is undeniable. Every detail…

In the 1930’s, particularly in America, social realism artists began to place emphasis on the role of the creative artist as a means to cause social change. African American social realists increasingly began to call attention to the threat of both race prejudice and class inequalities and used their cultural work as social criticism, a means of installing race pride and amplifying interracial working-class condition improvements. By…

feeling of the time, abstract expressionism emerged in the mid 1940s to the 1950s to express the personal feelings, and larger spiritual feelings of the artists. This style of painting cannot be described with a specific style, but rather against realist and traditional styles. The common element in their artwork was the emotional component that drove their composition. The two methods to be explored within abstract expressionism is action painting and color field painting. Both methods were a…

see this piece here, it’s the “Southill Salome”. What happened was that I was in the studio one morning, I didn’t have the place downtown at that time. I used to paint in the morning at the time and I was painting in this realist style… well, they were surreal, surrealist realist you know. The children were young at the time, they had lots of ladybird books, and the quality of illustrations in some of those was very high. So for a while I was uneasy, these pieces were very much admired in a way,…

Other classical painters such as Poussin were taken more serious by others. By the 18th century, Caravaggio was overlooked and forgotten. He has only been revered anew and rediscovered since about 1950. That is why it is possible to find a Caravaggio in an attic, in theory…

Modern art can be abstract and alluring, simple and complex, provocative and soothing, but as pointed out in chapter four of Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art, some people love to hate it. Hate, as it seems, is not nearly a strong enough appellation to encapsulate the contempt experienced by ordinary people and art critics alike when faced with an original work of modern art. As in the case of Georges Braque’s 1907 oil on canvas Landscape at La…

Style Goya was a Romantic painter; these unique artists aimed to break free from traditional rules and selected their own subjects. Romantic painters were independent of the social order and distinguished themselves from European culture as Goya did. These artists including Goya set out to grasp the moment of tragedy and combat. Goya excelled in the late Baroque and Rococo styles in his youth, but never entirely incorporated the influence of Neo-Classicism, (attributed from the influence of…

Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born in New York City to a German-Jewish family. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his father Milton, a real-estate broker, his mother Beatrice, a homemaker, and his younger sister Renee. Roy Lichtenstein was one of the first American Pop artists to reach well-known notoriety, and he became a lightning rod for condemnation of the society. His early work alternated widely in style and topic matter, and displayed significant empathetic of modernist…

The contrasting and comparing Frans Hals’ “The Women Regents of the Old Men’s Home in Haarlem and Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp” is like fastening a window to a mirror set at an angle reflecting the occupant of the room and the figures of the passers-by. Nevertheless, had Hals and Rembrandt set up such a mirrors in their studio windows, at Haarlem and Amsterdam, in the middle of the seventeenth century, fixing the reflections by some magical progression, the end results are something…

and Manet. These three artist were willing to take extreme risks in order to take their artwork to the next level. They may have heard quite a bit of harsh words from people in the towns, but it was a risk worth taking. Courbet was a French realist painter who painted the Stone-Breakers,…