Western painting

Japonism is the influence of Japanese art and aesthetics on the Western culture. Japonisme is specifically used when referring to the Japanese influence on European art. Japanese art influenced many European artists, including, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Ranson. Ukiyo-e prints reached Europe in the 1800s. In Europe they became a source of inspiration for many impressionist painters. During the 1800s in France, there were exhibitions of Ukiyo-e art and it resulted in the growing popularity of…

Art is an expression of human creativity and imagination, primarily in a visual form allowing the emotional power and beauty in all artwork from paintings to sculptures to be viewed. Art has been around since about 32,000-30,000 BCE. Around this period the emerging of cave paintings were discovered in places like Lascausx, France. Art has taught us to understand the history of humanity through the prehistoric period depictions of huge mammoths to todays contemporary abstractions, artist have…

Graffiti art has been around since the ancient Egyptian times. As graffiti art becomes modernized, painting techniques are charged along with the style for perfection. These techniques consist of sketching with pencil and paper and drawing on the wall. In the United Kingdom, a famous giraffid artist known as Banksy uses these techniques in his art. Banksy’s satirical art is usually controversial along with dark humor. One of his most recognizable pieces, commonly known as Sweeping It Under the…

Painting is one of the forms of self-expression. Artists often use this media to show their opinion on social and cultural issues. In all Mark Ryden`s work there is a hint at something dark beneath the surface of mass culture. He creates dark paintings in which he combines images of cute children, cultural symbols and incomprehensible and alarming images. Ryden chooses themes that carry cultural connotations. He is interested in what different people and cultures consider sacred. His paintings…

models in the 14th to 16th centuries. His actual name is “Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi”. Botticelli was born in 1445 in the city of Florence. He went to the Florentine school to learn painting. His master was Fra Filippo Lippi, who was influenced…

bring two different aspects together and making it into one. The first image is a piece from back home that I thought was a beautiful painting. I chose this image because it caught my attention with its creativity and uniqueness and because it was painted in such a bad part of town…

The painting that I decided to write about is one of the most popular paintings in the museum and its called “The Russian Bride’s Attire”. The Russian bride 's attire history is one of the most paintings I have ever seen in my life. The dimension of this painting is 110 x 147 inches. It was made by a very famous Russian painter named Konstantin Makovsky in 1887 and it was completed in Russia. Konstantin Makovsky was born on june 20th in moscow. In 1851 Makovsky got into Moscow school of…

She will teach me when I grow up. After 2 or 3 I stay out side of our home and I saw that she was painting so I went near to her look how she paint. I told her to teach me how to paint but she did not teach me because my mom doesn’t allow me to paint. Again when she was painting I look and think that how she does and how she uses that different color mud. I look like 3 or 4 time when she was painting and from next day I paint outside of our home my self. It was mass up and when my mom come…

The famous very dark painting that shows pain and chaos on innocent civilians. Picasso was working on a mural for the Paris Exhibition that was to be held in the summer of 1937.This lead to the Spanish Civil war lasted from 1936-1939 which was seen as an anti-war. Picasso discontinued his idea of that mural on May 1st, 1937 so that he could be working on the painting Guernica. He did this because of the bombing that happen in his country. Throughout the painting created a atmosphere of the…

main focus point as I analyzed the detail that was put forth in each one. Their facial features that they were known for most were accentuated drawing you into the painting itself. Though the art pieces seemed similar you could feel the different atmospheres they each possessed. The first one to catch my eye…