Watercolor painting

The Last Supper is a still life sculpture made by Ken and Julia Yonetani using groundwater salt from the Murray River. The image of the large banquet is chipped, moulded and cut from a 1.5 tonnes of salt into a three-dimensional “still life” masterpiece with the dimensions of 9 metres in length, 0.72 metres in width and 1.22 metres in height. The sculpture is of a nine-metre table laid with a variety of food on top, such as fruit and vegetables, lobster and fish and various shaped glasses and…

Romare Bearden was a phenomenal artist of his time; his art displayed his upbringing and places he visited throughout his life. In his collage piece, Tomorrow I May Be Far Away (1966/1967), “Bearden reflects on his childhood memories of Mecklenburg County” (WELCOME TO THE ROMARE BEARDEN FOUNDATION). The title of this particular art piece comes from a blues song, “Good Chib Blues”, “and like the blues, this monumental collage by Romare Bearden derives its power from repetitions, multiple meanings…

The value in the painting show a full range of value which was excellently done by Tristan Eaton. From the left of the picture, you can see from the left of picture that he went to a lighter value to dark to lighter in the middle to dark to light and ends with dark value…

We experience feeling every minute of our lives. Feelings are part of a person and they are one of the most important components a person has. Arts have taken advantage of feeling and interpreted them into their art work to catch the viewers attention. Arts have made art pieces that create sadness, happiness, excitement, tension and many more. Cory Arcangel, a thirty-seven-year-old that brought nerd’s love of gaming into galleries. He is overthrowing traditional art work with pop-futuristic…

When you talk about proportions we refer to the size relationship between and an object. one of the hardest things that most artists have to face is drawing in proportions when you have to have complete accuracy. It is vitally important in drawings whether your dealing with portraits, landscapes or even realistic drawings it trains the eye to see things as it is. In the process of setting up my blind contouring drawing I realized that it is more complex to focus on the object and have that…

Brooklyn Bridge The aesthetic art piece keeps the eyes engaged throughout the beautiful three dimensional work. 1983, Brooklyn bridge by Andy Warhol is the gorgeous, fascinating colorful piece in the Andy Warhol museum located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Screenprinting is the style he decided to use for this artistic expression. Warhol had an unreasonably amount of patience and kept eye for details Even though this process could be a long and lengthy one. Many different types of paper…

The first artwork focused on is The Human Condition, by Rene Magritte. This is a surrealist painting, with major existential themes, and multiple levels of perspective. This artwork is almost a satire on what the ideally a great painting contains. Alberti touches on what a talented artist should depict in his representation of the world in his book, On Painting. According to Alberti, a good painting consists of geometry, correct anatomy, elegant surfaces, and a conformity in regard to size,…

Goya is well known for his thought provoking and perhaps disturbing paintings, especially “Los Caprichios”. While the primary purpose of these 80 something etchings was to depict the abuses of the Catholic Church, societal ills, and superstition, however they also demonstrate a very interesting perspective on the psychology of sleep and dreams, particularly in relation to monsters. This collection presented the condemnation of follies and foolishness is a rather informal, almost free form way, a…

The kiss artwork is a sculpture made with marble and the Christina’s World artwork is a painting made with tempera. Both artworks has a meaningful story behind that you would never think of. For example, in the painting Christina’s World somebody would think that Christina is just sitting on the grass catching the breeze through her hair and enjoying the day instead of her having an disorder that makes her not able to walk. For the sculpture The Kiss you would think that Auguste just saw two…

M.C Escher was more than just an artist. He created art using patterns of identical shapes, that fit together with no gaps, and did not overlap, also known as tessellations. He went through many stages throughout his art, but his most lasting legacy are the tessellations he made and the mathematical impact they had. By using mathematical reasoning he was able to create the tessellations, but he had to look beyond just mathematics to dig deep into his tessellated optical illusions. M.C Escher…