Vincent Bugliosi

My work explores the relationship between what artist sees and what the artist creates. My work is my interpretation of an eye of a lioness. It reproduces a close up image of a lioness’ eye as a small part of a portrait of a lioness. In my work, I created what I saw without focusing in on the details. There is no symbolism behind my work; it is just an oil pastel of an eye of a lioness. By visiting The Metropolitan Museum of Art online, I was inspired by the artwork of Georgia O’Keeffe. My…

Susan Derges was born in London in the year of 1955. All of her work is mostly visual metaphors. She captures the relationship between nature and self. In one article it said the, “she endeavors to capture both visible and invisible scientific and natural processes. The physical appearance of sound, the evolution of frogspawn or the reflection of the moon and start on water.” Most of her famous work is her capturing water that goes into river and shorelines. Lately she works on photographs that…

Vincent van Gogh’s, Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette Most definitely, well known painter Vincent van Gogh, certainly led a most intriguing and captivating life within the tough art world. Early in life, van Gogh did not have it easy. With the loss of his older brother-who had the same name and birthdate- van Gogh felt miserable, and fell into a state of gloom at a young age. Throughout his life, Vincent Van Gogh suffered through many forms of rejection. One of them being, love. When…

famous painters in the latter category is the infamous Vincent van Gogh, and the Cubism creator, Pablo Picasso. These two painters shaped human art history as we know it, with their art work being valued at millions, and their creativity being priceless. It is important to see who these artists were, and see what shaped them and how they came to be the people that they were. According to the site biography, “Vincent van Gogh was born Vincent Willem van Gogh on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert,…

The artwork The Parc Monceau made in 1878 by Claude Monet is an oil on canvas painting. The painting is 28 5/8 inches horizontally by 21 3/8 inches vertically. I discovered this piece of art online through the Metropolitan Museum of Art website located in New York, New York, along with many other of his art pieces, but this one I appreciated the most. The Parc Monceau is a representational and figurative painting because it depicts scenery we see in real life as well as people just slightly…

The very well known painting called A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, or A Sunday Afternoon for short, is a piece of artwork by Georges Seurat. Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, France. He was born into a wealthy family to his parents Antoine Chrysostome Seurat and Ernestine Faivre. He attended art school for several years until he got bored of the basic art and broke free from the traditional art of that time. He went to be considered the founding father of the Neo-Impressionist art…

The two points on which art is created are line and color. This is a topic that has been continuosly discussed. One of the most famous dicused debates of art was the Great Line vs. Color Debate of 1671. This took place at the French Roayal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris. The dispute was weather drawing or color was more important in painting. The two parties involved were the Poussinists and the Rubenists. Those who argued that drawing was the most important thing were dubed the…

In the piece “Autorretrato en el taller (Self-portrait in the Studio)” by Francisco de Goya, the artist depicts himself in a Romantic style of painting. The lighting is hazing and alludes to being naturally lit, due to it coming in from the window. It continues to call attention to the illusion of painting by the brush strokes being visible on the canvas. This incites the idea of self awareness of the artist and understanding that a painting is not a reflection of real life but an artifice. The…

intention can be revealed through analysing symbolism and technique, by delving under the surface and connecting events of the artist’s life to smaller aspects of the painting, one is able to understand more about the artist mental state. Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh are two uniquely and tremendously influential modern artists. Both individual’s works have enthralled me from my first experiences with art in elementary school. Kahlo and Van Gogh share the similarity of having had a life full…

When I think about what I believe to be visual art I am usually drawn to pieces that make me have some sort of emotional response. This emotional response could be from the use of colors or the subject matter used in the work. For example, Van Gogh’s Corridor in the Asylum shows a long hallway with one figure standing in the back. This almost empty corridor brings to mind a sense of loneliness that Van Gogh might have been feeling during his time there. His use of muddy colors also gives the…