Stark Museum of Art

century artist, James Abbott McNeil Whistler. At first glance, one notices the simple yet elegant nature of this painting. The focus in this piece is put on the Thames River and the Battersea Bridge since they are at the forefront of the painting. This art work encompasses the beauty of the Thames River during night time, hence the use of the word "nocturne" in the naming of this piece. However, it is worth mentioning that this specific work can almost appear monochromatic due to the…

formal aspects, contextual analysis and the museum presentation of the following two paintings. Portrait of a Young woman with a Fan by Rembrandt Van Rijn and Alphonse Promayet by Gustave Courbet. The painting of Portrait of a Young woman with a Fan is created in Dutch in 1633 and it exhibits in gallery 637. The Alphonse Promayet is created in French in 1861 and it exhibits in gallery 809. Both galleries are on the second floor of the metropolitan museum of art. Each painting has its unique…

lighting and they all represented a variety of colors, textures, shapes, lines, and patterns. The use of color, texture, and lighting play a big part in making these sculptures unique. Jun Kaneko’s exhibit was shown at the Dixon Gallery and Garden’s Art…

A fine example of beautiful art is, Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night Over the Rhone was created in 1888. Other than this particular piece Van Gogh created large assortment of night paintings because “…before he became an artist, Vincent van Gogh was fascinated by the cycles of nature and human life and the times of day.” (Van Gogh and The Colors of the Night. 9) He was looking to capture the emotions and feelings of the times. Gogh’s work appeals to us not only for it being pleasing to…

Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck are both famous paintings that were painted during the Post-Impressionism era and the Early Renaissance era. Each piece is unique and display different artistic composition. Starry Night portrays a glowing night sky over a village and The Arnolfini Portrait portrays a wealthy couple holding hands in a bedroom. The differences in time period and the artists’ experiences influenced the aesthetics of both artworks. Vincent…

Van Gogh has had on art history and our culture, it is important first to examine the artistic and cultural environment in which Van Gogh was acquainted. Van Gogh’s religion was central in shaping both the images he painted and the artistic techniques he used. This paper will examine the influences of his philosophy of faith and how it progressed in his work by subject matter and style. Van Gogh’s paintings of humble peasant in Nuenen Netherlands dramatically influenced his art from subject…

One of my favorite paintings from the Revolution of the palette: The First Synthetic and their Impact on French Artists exhibition was the Happy Lovers, c. 1760-65, oil on canvas by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The painting size was 35-1/2 x 47-3/4 in. (90.2 x 121.3 cm). The painting depicts a happy couple, sitting in a nature, smiling, looking at each other with love, and enjoying their time together. On the background behind the couple the branches of leaves bended over and created a round shape…

Museum/Gallery Paper I went and visited the Wichita Art Museum for this assignment. Going into this assignment I was apprehensive as it had been well over a decade since the last time I have ever been to a museum. From what i did recall I remember finding myself seeing pieces of art and not understanding how that is even considered art. I was, however, looking forward to seeing how my perspective had changed since becoming an adult and after reading the first several chapters of course now…

By wondering among rooms each with a specific style of art, I found the room showing Cubism, introducing Pablo Picasso and Georeges Braque especially fascinating. After leaving the museum, I realized that I spent most of the time watching at the paintings related to Cubism, because the ideas from the paintings were obscure in forms of patterns, I needed to stop and watch for a while in front of the paintings to understand them. The paintings performed just as the introduction suggested: cubist…

The Starry Night painting by Vincent Van Gogh was painted in 1889. It was an oil canvas of the night sky. Van Gogh was a fanatic for night time and showed that in this painting. In Starry Night, the light is shining bright with energy and life, with a very quiet village below. Van Gogh put the cypress tree in his painting to connect the earth and sky, some say that he used the tree to reflect his own thoughts about death. Van Gogh depicted a lot of darkness in this oil painting, but made it seem…