Western Ghats

Throughout American art, nature has played an important role in depicting a specific time and place in American history or serving as beautiful backdrops to showcase wealth and stature. Weather it is Jutus Engelhardt Kuhn’s portrait of Fig 3.4 Henry Darnall III or Benjamin West’s depicting Fig 4.23 The Death of General Wolfe, we are taken back to a specific time in our country’s history and as we move through time artist like John Vanderlyn’s portrayal of Fig 4.52 The Death of Jane McCrea he…

The artist I picked was Diego Rivera. Rivera was born on December 8th, 1886 and died on November 24th, 1957. Born in Guanajuato, Mexico and deceased in Mexico city at the age of 71. Rivera was a Mexican Artist that made beautiful and inspiring murals. In his youth, he went to Paris for art school. He met many popular artists from his time there. He was very accomplished in making so many famous murals. Some of the murals he made were on public buildings and were made for the poor. A lot of…

Her broken heart lies at her feet; its enormous size symbolizes the intensity of her pain. She illustrates her feelings of helplessness and despair through her lack of hands. Her face, though tearful, is expressionless. Her hair is cropped to spite Diego who greatly admired her long flowing hair. She wears the European-style clothes she favored when she was separated from Diego who much preferred her in Tehuana costume. The foot placed over water wears an apparatus that looks like a sailboat and…

Edgar Degas was a French painter known for his paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. The painting The Dance Class, painted in 1874, was one of his most famous works because it was one of the most ambitious ones. Degas had used perspective to create an illusion of a three dimensional world. Light and shadow also play a significant role in introducing the painting as three dimensional. While the painting is static, one may focus on how gentle the movements are painted. For example, it…

strict parenting across cultures? In general, children are less happy with strongly controlling parents and this effect is found across many cultures. Strict and controlling parenting can lead to many kinds of negative outcomes in Western cultures, whereas non-Western cultures it appears to be associated with increased family cohesion and improved grades but less-happy children. There are trade-offs involved in parenting-styles, it is based off whether strict and controlling parenting will deter…

Baroque theme that looks very much like wallpaper in the painting’s background, reminiscent of luxurious French fabric. The background is also filled with tiny paintings of sperm which is Wiley’s way of parodying the style of art traditionally seen in Western portraiture which is filled with masculine figures. The whole painting is set in an elaborate gold colored frame, just as many European portraits of rulers were framed. This sets the tone for the portrait.Inspiration: The obvious…

Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre, Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, and Paul Cezanne’s The Bathers all depict scenes of nudes, but in very different ways. Matisse builds upon Cezanne’s use of color and form to depict his own interpretation of bathers while Picasso uses color in his depiction of a nude scene in a very different way. Paul Cezanne’s, Large Bathers, depicts a moment in time as impressionist’s were apt to convey with their work. However, the women shown are drawn abstractly.…

Piet Mondrian was born March 7, 1872, as Pieter Cornerlis Mondriaan. He is well known for his involvement in the Dutch art movement De Stijl which “advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color” (Neo-Plasticism and De Stijl). This means simplified shapes, ideally composed of just vertical or horizontal directions, and only primary colors in addition to black and white. From this concept, Mondrian produce many famous abstract paintings made up of…

Between the “Portrait of a Rabbi” and “Juno” the “Portrait of a Rabbi” looks to be the least finished of the two. There are aspects of both paintings that has caused some to claim that they are unfinished works. However, both works are completed works by Rembrandt. “Portrait of a Rabbi” demonstrates simple use of lines and economical use of paint. There are parts of his clothes in the bottom left corner that are indistinguishable and are made from a few brushstrokes. Rembrandt has used brush…

Someone who is good at riding will seem like he is one with the horse. It looks so easy- all you have to do is just sit there, right? The rider can make the horse do anything that he pleases. All he needs to do is just will the horse to do so. When you are new to riding, there is no hiding your flaws. All of them will come to the surface. The horse will not look bad- he will seem at least five times smarter than you. Who does this stupid person think he is? He thinks he can control a horse…