Western painting

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…

painted Diego’s face on her forehead, in place of the third eye. Frida wears an elaborate tehuana Mexican dress (Diego’s favorite) perhaps in an attempt to recover his admiration. Around her face the whole painting is full of cracks, symbolizing the marks in her soul. There’s a way to know when a painting by Kahlo expresses a feeling of unbearable pain — in those cases, Frida was unable to replicate the suffering in her own body and therefore she used other images. In this case, she drew a deer…

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…

trees and the colors of the painting blend into one another. It appears as if this were painted during the evening and the pale blues greens and beiges all seem to convey some solemnity of the women depicted. (Harris & Zucker, 2016) (Matisse, 1905) Bonheur de Vivre In Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre, we see a painting of a very similar seen as that depicted in Cezanne’s Large Bathers, but this depiction is much freer in expression than that of Cezanne’s. This painting is ful of joy and…

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 only colored squares and lines. One of Mondrian’s works, Tree (1912) shows a clear transition from a realistic depiction to an abstract one. It is one of his first attempts at a “pure” form, which could be seen in his later artwork…

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 effects to create textures and effects of clothes but in this portrait his brushworks only evoke the action of painting. His…

Daniella Alaniz Robert Andes Art Appreciation 1301.03 November 30.2015 Artist: Puente Title of Artwork: Daughters of the Earth Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions of Artwork: 51 1/2 x 39 1/2 Written Critique The art work Daughters of the Earth is very creative and detailed. The egg shows how it’s cracked and the mountain shows the shape as the lines of dirt. The hair is also detailed showing the hair strands and you can also see the bodies of the girls their hands, their legs and face. It is…

piled up together creating this feeling of the colours hovering on the canvas. Orange, Red, Yellow by Mark Rothko evidently describes the abstract expressionist style. The media use of acrylic paint affected the style of the painting. The lack of form in Rothko’s painting can be evidently seen as Rothko painted three rectangular shapes in the centre of the canvas using the colour orange and yellow. By the application of the red opaque paint around the three rectangular shapes, this detaches the…

In 1938 he created his first oil paintings. His first painting known as “Crucifixion” is one his his most well known works which is said to personify Jesus and Mary.. This was the first in a series of many paintings entitled “Psychological Morphologies”. Matta thought of this set of paintings as springing from his subconscious through abstract forms that were able to transcend time and space. Matta also believed…

self-painting constructed by Norman Rockwell. The portrait is claimed to be a clever and witty comment on the artist’s own art. The artist has three pictures into one. The three pictures that are tacked on the top left on the canvas, the black-and-white drawing of Rockwell’s face, and the picture that represents him working from the back. Is it realism or something that can be called a fact of a make-believe? Rockwell depicts his passion for painting by capturing the process of him painting. The…