Western painting

ceiling of the structure she is standing under. This work is very much Japonisme in that the woman who looks European, painted by a European artist, is shown wearing Japanese clothing in a Japanese-inspired building. This painting was completed in 1864 in a time when Tissot was painting many…

The artist of this painting is Fritz Scholder, a ¼ Native American Luiseno born in Breckenridge, Minnesota. Always being interested in art, Scholder spent his childhood drawing and using his imagination (Fritz Scholder: Indian not Indian). Being a fourth generation American having no Indian objects around the house or anyone to teach him about his heritage, Fritz did not grow up considering himself an Indian. (Fritz Scholder: Indian not Indian). From a young age, he was not proud of being…

in Ruben's painting, to discuss the characteristics of Rubens’s artworks, and the Rubens's construction of heroic virtue. At the beginning of the journal Rosenthal was introduced that Rubens was a well-known baroque style painter in the 17th century in Western Europe. Rubens was very good at depicting the fleshy of female body, and his painting is also containing rich topic. Religious stories, myths, landscape and human portrait these are all the element contain in the Rubens’s painting, and we…

A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie is an oil on canvas painting currently located at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City as part of the museum’s collection of American paintings. Albert Bierstadt created this panoramic painting in New York in 1866. The piece’s accession number at the museum is 76.79. Just as the title indicates, the painting’s subject is a storm in the Rocky Mountains, specifically at the lake valley of Mt. Rosalie and with Native Americans riding horses along the…

The idea encompasses a vast area and includes parts of North Africa, the Near East, and sections of western Asia (Pittman). Oriental beliefs generally held by the English population and other parts of western Europe during the time of the British Empire emphasize the viewpoint that people of Oriental societies needed assistance in governing themselves and updating their culture and way of life. Edward…

religious book in majority of Islam, the written accounts of Islamic prophet Muhamad). As well as contributing advancements in landscape paintings that generally represented the sacred gardens written about in the…

Rousseau was born in Laval, a town in the province of Mayenne in western France. His family was relatively poor and so Rousseau entered the workforce immediately after he finished school. Rousseau spent a small time in…

styles. The video mainly focused on how Western art was affected by Eastern culture and art. Famous artist like Van Gogh, Da Vinci and more all show signs of having converging cultures in their work, and especially in the 18th and 19th century when impressionism became popular. The painting I am going to be discussing that has cross convergence is Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-portrait with Bandage Ear. Impressionism was based off of eastern artwork with a western artwork twist to it. Vincent Van…

on hills established at the expense of a poor working class, ultimately displaying numerous forms of corruption in a humorous way. Although these paintings are too quick to point out human flaws and failures, they remain free of darkness and despair. The lens of cheerfulness itself becomes something of a potentially liberating force. In the painting to the left…

very interesting artistic life from his budding childhood to his unfortunate death. He created beautiful works of art now exhibited in many places of the world. I picked him because I have had many experiences with his art, and I love his style of painting, especially how he made light realistic. Examples of this can be seen when light shines on water or when the moon is present. This and the amount of detail makes looking at Turner’s art very enjoyable. The first stage of his life was very…