Western Ghats

In 1909 Sergei Shchkin, a Russian industrialist, asked Henri Matisse for three large paintings to decorate part of his house (Matisse, Dance I, n.d.). Dance 1 was one of these paintings (Matisse, Dance I, n.d.). Two versions exist of this painting, the initial version, was considered by Matisse as a preparatory sketch and was created in 1909 while the final version has different colors and was finished in 1910. Both versions are considered oil paintings (Matisse, Dance I, n.d.). “Dance 1” has a…

Las Meninas painted in 1656 with oil on canvas, is a depiction of everyday life of the royal Spanish family where Diego Velazquez was able to show a real moment in time, avoiding idealism and capturing truth. Velazquez was a court painter of the royal family, King Philip IV and Queen Maria Anna, which he worked hard at to achieve, and wanted to show this achievement to others. When viewing the painting the obvious focal point is Princess Margarita who stands out from the center, dressed in…

José Vivas- Astara created an oil on canvas painting Catalan Scene in 1971 using oil paints. The painting is a landscape painting. The art piece shows the missions with a couple of houses surrounding it. All the houses are connected to each other but they are all different heights. The houses have red tiled roofs and white stucco walls. Close to the houses there is a body of water with trees and grass surrounding it. In the painting you can tell it’s a sunny day by how the painting depicts warm…

Do Group Minds Change People In the article, “Group Minds” by Doris Lessing, she says that it is natural that humans conform to group ideas. Lessing's argument about people and groups is not very convincing. For example, Lessing states “that the hardest thing in the world is to stand out against one’s group”(Lessing 613). She fails to provide an example or an explanation of her thinking. An example of standing out of the group would be the United States standing out in the United Nations on the…

Over the course of college level art classes, the work produced has drastically changed from beginning to end of the three-year long career. The process of making a painting begins with, ultimately, thinking too hard about the subject matter and composition. Once starting to determine subject matter, other painters are researched, such as Bonnard and Philip Guston. This gives ideas in terms of composition, color palette, and complexity of the subject matter. The influences of these two artists…

Stairway to Heaven What human think can go to heaven? What does Heaven look like to human eyes? Is it made of gold? Look at Stairway to Heaven is a painting by Mary Sedici opens in the human eye to surprise. The painting make many people wonder about how beautiful, what is aesthetically pleasing. The painting depends on the trinity of light, composition, and wonder. Stairway to heaven leading up into the clouds with light reveals the subject. Saw shadow rising up from skyline, with two clouds…

Intro The San Antonio Spurs will face off against the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference semi-finals in a battle for Texas. If you told me we would get a James Harden vs. Kawhi Leonard matchup in the second round, I’d gladly accept it. Two of the top five MVP candidates will go head to head, in what should be a great and entertaining series. If the regular season is any indication, then this series will be extremely close and go down to the wire. All four of their regular season games…

Paul Klee was born in Switzerland on December 18, 1879 he died in June 29, 1940. Klee style was influenced by surrealism, cubism and expressionism. He was a good violinist but as a teenager turned his attention from music into visual arts. In 1898 he went to the Academy of fine arts in Munich. On 1905 he developed his own signature techniques like drawing with a needle on a blackened pane of glass. Later on between 1903 and 1905, he did a set of etchings called Inventions that would be his first…

Born in Beijing in 1920 to a family of Song imperial descendant, Zao Wou-ki grew up in Dantu, Jiangsu Province and spent his childhood learning calligraphy and Chinese literati traditions. Zao’s father was an amateur painter and his grandfather a former naval gunner of the late Qing Dynasty and a devoted Daoist disciple. Since Zao was still a child, the Daoist thoughts, a theme that would permeate throughout his oeuvre, had been rooted in his mind when he just started exploring the world of art.…

For this paper, I decided to compare and contrast two different styles of artwork that both have the same medium. The two pieces that stood out to me at Willards Art Center in Idaho Falls Idaho were Elise Wilding's tree painting and Bernadette Regnier's flower painting. Both artists, Wilding and Regnier, use the medium of paint to create their beautiful art. While they both use the same medium in their art, they have do have different styles. Wilding uses an expressionism style in her art to…