Realist painters

Identity: the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. Who we are as individuals is an enquiry into the obscure, as identity is a human construct, an adaption to ensure the survival of our species as a social being. “To be or not be? That is the question.” Shakespeare a renowned writer and think pondered this very idea, can I just stop being me? Build a completely new person to sail the same vessel? If one could capture their identity or that of another what would it look like and how…

Rosa Bonheur and Olafur Eliasson are two completely different types of artists but yet have similarities in their admiration for the elements of the natural world. Both artists had successful business art careers and represented their convictions as activists. We will discuss and summarize who these artists symbolize by discovering what sparked their interest to pursue art, the different styles and types of art, how they conducted their art careers, how they marketed their works, and how they…

Through contrasting tones Daguerre seeks to capture a detailed boulevard scene, as the epic grandeur of the flatiron is displayed by steichen through depth and muted color, Kertész restructures the mundane into an obscure reality, while all place the human form against the symmetrical lines of its own creation. Daguerre’s desires to create a perfectly realistic image pushed him to invent the daguerreotype, allowing him to permanently save an image on a plate. Steichen, as a pictorialist, aimed…

Japanese Edo Period Art The Edo period had a lot of importance & impact on Japan as it helped flourish its culture by cutting off the west and isolating itself, with the help of many Schools of Japan learning new techniques in art which would become the norm for today. A lot of the impact was on the social classes, as artists started to become noticed, and recognised for the art they created. The points to discuss will be on ‘who’ to talk about. First, I’ll look at Hoitsu & Buncho from Edo as…

Artists Gustave Caillebotte and Clide Hassam are rewound painters who spent their careers depicting scenes of everyday life in various levels of impressionism. Combined, the two provide for an excellent comparison of how specific techniques used for their works elicit different emotions and interpretations. Specifically, Caillebotte’s Paris Street: Rainy Day and Hassam’s A Rainy Day of Fifth Avenue capture similar scenarios in roughly an analogous time frame, allowing viewers to focus strictly…

His iconic painting “The Scream” (Image 1) with its exaggerated colors and distorted shapes amplify anxiety and alienation and is the perfect example of Expressionist art. Munch in his tormented “scream” is reacting to the anxieties associated with the modern changing world. In true Expressionist style the elements are exaggerated, distorted, vivid and jarring. The palette is limited and Munch uses intense colour with agitated brushstrokes. Munch’s inner emotional turmoil is conveyed by the…

3. Wiles, Stephanie. “A Survey of Watercolor by Henry Farrer” Master Drawings Association. Vol. 40. No 4. Nineteenth-Century British and American Drawings. 317-331 Henry Farrer is recognized as a painter and printmaker who played…

In The Absolute Bourgeois, T. J. Clark notes that much of Millet’s work from the early 1850s reduces the lives of the proletariat to menial existences: “They [Millet’s pieces] do no more than illustrate their tasks, they are created to grasp the hay or wield the pitchfork…they are not so much anonymous as perfunctory.” Indeed, Millet and the other artists of his time created works that blended technical mastery with profound subtextual content. Their cleverly composed pieces often stirred…

painting is primarily of the American regionalist style. Andrew Wyeth became a symbol of an era more than just a painter, which caught the true expression of that generation of Americans. He was so popular at that time, even becoming a sold-out exhibition artist because he expressed something that most Americans wanted to do. Very naturally, he became the part of transcendental group as a painter with the design of Louis Sullivan, the poetry of Walt Whitman and so on. In Christina’s World,…

I am doing my artwork analysis on the painting “The Legend of Brutus and Portia”. This piece was done by Jacopo di Arcangelo or better known as Jacopo del Sellaio. He was an early renaissance painter from Florentine, Italy and the pupil of Filippo Lippi. The painting is located in San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum. It was painted using oil on panel (wood). It stands 19 ¼ in. by 59 in. The frame, the painting is in really gives it a historical feeling. It even highlights the designs…