Unconventional oil

The piece of art that I would like to focus on is displayed in chapter five (pg.193) of our textbook. It is a piece titled “Horrid Massacre in Virginia,” referring to the events that occurred in Nat Turner Rebellion. Although the specific artist of the work is unknown, this illustration was presented in a book by Samuel Warner, titled, “Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which Was Witnessed in Southampton County.” This book was written in 1831, which is the same year of Nat…

The Stolen Kiss – Hermitage Museum The Stolen Kiss by Jean Honore Fragonard from the State Hermitage Museum is an oil on canvas painting Museum Introduction The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia is the largest museum of arts and culture in the world and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collection consists of six buildings, five of which are open to the public, that include over three million items, with only a small portion remaining on permanent display. Among the…

The first artwork that I chose was Bertel Thorvaldsen’s, Ganymede and the Eagle made between the years of 1817-1829. He finally finished the sculpture in 1829 out of marble. As I said I really admire Greek and Roman art, so this was an easy pick. The dimensions of this sculpture I would say are around height wise of 35 inches and width wise about 20. I could not find the exact measurements so that is a rough estimate. DESCRIBE: The thing I first noticed about the piece was texture and detail…

The artwork I have chosen is titled, “American Gothic”, by Grant Wood, painted in 1930. Grant Wood painted on a 74.3 X 62.2 cm piece of oil on beaverboard. These materials give the painting an old timing look but with good color and contrast. This painting can be viewed at the Art Institute of Chicago. Now I’m going to describe this painting in more detail, so that you can see a visual picture in your head. The white male in the artwork has very thin brown hair; with thick bushy eyebrows; brown…

There are many strange candies that are being sold, currently. Some of them are stranger than others. For example would you want to have a gummy cockroach in your mouth moving around. Today I’m going to be listing some strange candies. If you wanna try them out you can find them at Sour Flush candy Toilets The lollipop is used as a plunger. Once you lick the lollipop, dip it into the sour powder in the container like Now you have a sour treat. Do you really want toilet powder lollipop. As a…

The late 19th century is famous for large trusts dominating market power, such as John D Rockefeller’s oil and JPMorgan’s railroads. Even before Teddy Roosevelt could enforce his trust-busting leadership, the courts were determined to limit the power of huge corporations. These events took place just as professional baseball was at its inception. The Sherman Antitrust Act theoretically should have limited MLB as a monopoly. However, through court decisions, MLB was given immunity from antitrust…

Museum Visual Analysis The artwork that I chose to write about was a piece that was at the Arlington Museum of Art. The artist and title to this piece are unknown. I chose this particular piece because it was one of the first pieces of art that drew my attention. The colors were so vivid, bright, and full of life. Though there is no mention to the artist I believe that he or she were creating this piece to bring some kind of joy or happiness, a sense of peace for one to just be able to empty the…

Mark Rothko painted this work, known as Untitled (Black on Grey), during 1969 through 1970. To make this work, Rothko used acrylic paints directly on a white canvas. He used different shades of black for the top rectangle, and shades of grey, brown, and lavender on the bottom rectangle. The colors chosen symbolize a dark period in his life, as during the time when he created this work his physical health was declining and he suffered from depression. Unlike many of his previous works, the…

Although hydraulic fracturing has been in use for oil and natural gas drilling since the early 1900’s, its detrimental effects have only recently been brought to the public’s attention. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the use of a pressurized, chemically treated mixture of water and sand to release and extract quantities of natural gas and petroleum from shale rock. This mining process and its toxins are harmful to thousands of people across the nation. Hydraulic fracturing is a dangerous…

about how the beaches that penguins live on are contaminated with a oil spill. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicles” have similarities and differences like similarity in conflict but differences in setting. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicle” both have similarity in conflict. In “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” african penguins living on a island on the atlantic ocean, get covered in oil from a oil tanker are rescued by people. The penguins are fed,cleaned…