Watercolor painting

This museum was also founded with similar motives to the Metropolitan Museum. Their aims were to offer opportunities and means to deliver popular instruction in drawing, painting and modeling to the public (Zeller, 1989). The Metropolitan Museum, founded in 1870, gave a lecture series to adult citizens who live in New York two years later (Alexander, 1988). Its purpose of establishment was to inspire people to study the fine…

1. Figure 4.3, Going Home by Jacob Lawrence. This piece was created in 1946, and was painted with gouache, which is an opaque type of watercolor. I personally did not like this piece, I’m not a fan of the medium used, but nevertheless I found it interesting. In my opinion, the low value and intensity of the yellows and greens are unappealing, I think they make this train or bus seem outdated and old, or just dirty. But I do enjoy the contrasting red and green, and the warm feeling that the…

gradually builds up its own ideas and painting ways: artists provide the most accurate record of what is seen using a quickly painted oil sketch; they adopt new techniques which were short and broken brushstrokes, pure unblended colors and effects of lights changing; also they have a unique ability to see the world freshly. (Stokstad p496) In the last thirty years of his life, Monet perfectly expressed his ideas and styles in his series of approximately 250 oil paintings—water lilies, his best…

art, Piet's dad, Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan Sr., saw that his child had a natural talent for drawing and painting and could give him lessons. His Uncle, Fritz Mondrian, was also an a fantastic painter and was self trained. Since he was a respectable artist, he figured out how to bring home the money inside of the business art world. He was the person who taught the Mondrian the rudiments of painting, while his dad took him to the farmland to draw scenes. As Piet Jr. advanced towards…

mirrored image with the way the birds are placed. If you spin the image upside down you can see practically the same image. I fine the detail in this image to be what really stands out to me. The colors and texture of the birds are what really makes the painting look so…

Two Angels, portrayed through the magnificent art work of Deodato Orlandi, is truly a magnificent piece that reveals a great deal about the Christ child and the Virgin Mary. The method by which the artist depicted the image, the meaning behind the painting, and the history of the painter are all critical aspects to consider when attempting to gain a full understanding of a piece of artwork. There are hundreds of techniques used to create an image, and thousands of styles specific to each…

of artists so from a young age he was able to draw, design, and visualize from an artistic perspective. As he grew up he was continuously encouraged to be creative by the artistic community surrounding him, because of this his drawing skills and watercolor abilities flourished. Gordon’s parents loved to travel so they often went out to the European countryside and camped out in their VW bus. All this traveling gave him a great sense of perspective and a love for the architectural beauty of…

bring two different aspects together and making it into one. The first image is a piece from back home that I thought was a beautiful painting. I chose this image because it caught my attention with its creativity and uniqueness and because it was painted in such a bad part of town…

The painting that I decided to write about is one of the most popular paintings in the museum and its called “The Russian Bride’s Attire”. The Russian bride 's attire history is one of the most paintings I have ever seen in my life. The dimension of this painting is 110 x 147 inches. It was made by a very famous Russian painter named Konstantin Makovsky in 1887 and it was completed in Russia. Konstantin Makovsky was born on june 20th in moscow. In 1851 Makovsky got into Moscow school of…

She will teach me when I grow up. After 2 or 3 I stay out side of our home and I saw that she was painting so I went near to her look how she paint. I told her to teach me how to paint but she did not teach me because my mom doesn’t allow me to paint. Again when she was painting I look and think that how she does and how she uses that different color mud. I look like 3 or 4 time when she was painting and from next day I paint outside of our home my self. It was mass up and when my mom come…