Western painting

One of the most enjoyable and well-known film genre is the Western, produced from the start of the movie business to even today. When one thinks of a Western, they might think of an iconic star such as John Wayne riding on a horse in a beautiful landscape. In one of the most classic Westerns, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Captain Nathan Brittles is tasked with simultaneously easing tensions with the aggressive Cheyenne Indians and transporting his…

movements emerged at the dawn of the twentieth century. According to Fabian, painting is a God given talent to help illuminate his environment. While this would have had a huge bearing on Fabian Vas world view, it remains a mystery how some that hate could drive paints a bird as though it was a bird to murder the same beauty that he appears to champion through…

with it. Michael Light is a photographer and bookmaker focused on the environment and how contemporary American culture relates to it. Interestingly Light is also a private pilot, who is currently working on an extended aerial survey of the arid Western states, and in 2007 won a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in…

women’s played an important role in most of Russell paintings, considering that he produced many versions of the canvas “Indian Women Moving Camp”. The seasonal rounds of plain tribes gave Russell opportunities of showing Indians women riding proudly on their horses. This painting shows the Blackfoot tribe women moving camp. “While the men rode ahead and guarded the flanks, the women moved their children and worldly possessions. The Indian in this painting were carefully placed by Russell. With…

still life vanitas: In the arts, vanitas is one of the symbolic work of art especially linked a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability, also it is connected with other places and periods. The word vanitas it is actually a Lation word means "vanity" and loosely translated agree to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. As applied to vanitas art, the word…

In Glenn legion’s painting “I do not always feel colored” created in 1990, he uses black oil sticks to paint black letters onto a white background. I chose Glenn Legion because he beautifully demonstrates how we as a species should stand up against societal stigmas of different cultures and instead embrace each other’s originality to create a better world together. In this piece, Legion succeeds in promoting a visual dialogue of how separated he feels our society has become based on our skin…

famous works. In her painting her focus was women and children, since her rights were limited compared to men. In her painting, “The Boating Party,” she touches on the issue perfectly, by using her talent to make a stand. I have always been a fan of Mary Cassatt’s work, and I will for the rest of my life. She has been recognized all around the world with paintings in various museums. When I was in middle school my family visited The Chicago Institute for Art. They held various paintings in the…

Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer created “Monoliths #2,” in 1978. This piece of artwork is a mixed media that incorporates chalk, paint, water and other mediums to create an engaging piece of art. “Monoliths #2” focuses on different shapes, colors, and lines to create an abstract view of the world around her. The artwork is four feet by four feet but seems much larger when one actually stands in front of the piece which is located at Ackland Museum of Art. This artwork is displayed in the “European and…

During the 20th century, poetry changed what the idea of what was proper poetry. One of the main focuses during this time while writing poetry was imagery. Imagery is using ones words to paint a picture for the reader in great deal of detail. There were many poets and authors during this time that used imagery as a main focus point in their literary works. Some of the authors during this time were William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell and Carl Sandburg. Using imagery, the authors that will be…

The art works, “The Haywain” by John Constable and “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, are two different types of painting that represent the two movements of art work which is Romanticism and Expressionism through their style of art paintings. The well known and well represented the style of art work of romanticism, which is “The haywain” painted in 1821, Constable was the English painter during 18th century. He was a mainly outdoor of landscapes painter that he painted the nature scenery as he saw…