The painting is oil on canvas and contains an extensive amount of contrast. For example, the bright vermillion blanket against the dull eggshell colored door. The disparity between the colors used is prominent. Additionally, the fusion of ornate patterns and simplistic solids is evident. The tablecloth is a geometric mixture of cream and periwinkle.
The portrait was painted on wood panel and in gothic like form. Nonetheless, this masterpiece is representation of time, the complexity of the painting and the
He decorates his house with precision, and that is how his personality is. He has a very unique and meticulous way of doing things, and the decorations in his house symbolize that. Connell describes the dining room as a fancy room with expensive dishes, and extravagant food. “The table appointments were of the finest--the linen,
In the book, 8 pieces of art are analyzed and used to show the changes that were taking place in the world during the seventeenth century. Brook also attempts to connect the work of Vermeer to the Dutch’s role in globalization and how they came into significance during this time period. The paintings Officer and Laughing Girl, Young Woman Reading a Letter at An Open Window, and The Geographer all hints at doors that led the seventeenth century to such a successful time of global trade. In this paper, I will be looking closer at the three pieces of art mentioned above and connecting them to the globalization of the world and how they demonstrate Dutch global influence. The first piece of art to be discussed is the painting Officer and Laughing Girl.
This painting represented a dinning place in the middle of the night in downtown New York. The technique that was
The objects that are visible on this painting are: garlic, a glass of water, a coffee pot and other small branches of some plants. The fact that Chardin usually paints the main objects on a dark shaded background, usually painted with brown and then tinted with red or green, is also visible in this artwork. For instance, the color white has been used to paint the garlics and also the light part of the surface and part of the glass of water, which shows the reflection of color white from the garlics, as well as some highlights on the coffee pot. This shows
We are fortunate to have the ability to view pieces of artwork from the past that can link different time periods to the present day. In this paper, I will compare two famous paintings that have vastly different themes based on their time period, as well as analyze a contemporary expression from present time. The first painting I will analyze is The Merry Family by Dutch artist Jan Steen. This painting was created during the Dutch Baroque period in 1668 and depicts a family around the dinner table in pure jubilation.
Leonardo Da Vinci 's The Last supper is a popular work of art that is Da Vinci 's rendition of the last supper as told in the bible. This paper will include an in depth visual analysis of the painting as it appeared on the original canvas. The paper will also address the cultural and religious significance of this work of art in that time period. I chose to do the analysis on The Last Supper because it is an artwork that i have seen many times in my life, but oddly enough do not know a lot about. In this paper i plan to not only inform you , but inform myself on the many aspects of The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Still life #30 by Tom Wesselmann Figure 1: Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #30, 1963. Oil, enamel and synthetic polymer paint on composition board with collage, 122 x 167.5 x 10 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York (Gualdoni 2008: 40-41). In Still life #30 you find a depiction of the ideal post-war suburban American kitchen, aesthetically and clinically sound.
When thinking about the harmonious and blessing Thanksgiving, one connects the setting and atmosphere to the painting of Freedom From Want by Norman Rockwell. Norman Rockwell, an American painter and illustrator, was best known for his depiction of everyday American life. In Rockwell’s early years, he putted the emphases of his paintings on the warm and idealistic aspect of world, treating with simplistic charm and certain degree of humor. In January 1943, during World War II, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave an emotionally moving speech, addressing his vision to the American freedom and the desperate need of concern for the real threat of war, Rockwell was greatly inspired. Thence, he painted the Four Freedoms including Freedom
Pieter Bruegel, also known as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, was a long term resident of Antwerp, the center of publishing in the Netherlands, and an inventive painter and draftsman who is now considered the most important Flemish painter of the mid-16th century. He was a member of a large and important southern Netherlandish family of artists that were active for four generations in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Due to his family’s trade business and the print industry that developed not long after his work, Bruegel’s impact was widespread and long lasting. Bruegel’s styles of art also changed periodically throughout his life. In his earliest work, Bruegel established the landscapes and scenes of everyday life.
Perspective is considered one of the most important aspects of Renaissance art. Artists such as Masaccio, Leonardo Da Vinci and Raphael made the use of this device in many of their work. Thanks to Filippo Brunelleschi, who ‘invented’ and developed this technique called one point linear perspective. The intention of perspective in Renaissance art is to depict reality, reality being the ‘truth’. By simulating the three dimensional space on a flat surface, we in fact incorporate this element of realism into it.
This helps to create a close up look at the view outside the window suggesting the intimacy between the artist and the habitat outside. This is because the focus is almost wholly given to the view outside the window. The view, which is embellished by the presence of flowers sitting on the windowsill, and creepers climbing on the railing, is located in the center of the composition. Despite the lack of a line of symmetry and any logic or geometric order, Matisse has been able to draw the attention of the viewer’s eye through the use of bright colours, almost fluorescent, which were used to portray the calm sea with its floating blue boats, and the sky tinted with the colours of the sunset. The calm sea at the horizon is painted with unreal tones of pink, sky blue, and violet whereas the boat, painted with tones of indigo, orange and green, seem to move along with the light breeze.
A varied balance between the symbolic and realism has been struck world over by the painting. In the fifteenth century Western painting began to turn from its age- old concern with spiritual realities towards an effort to combine this spiritual expression with as complete an imitation as possible of the outside
The Focal Point of the painting would be the three people at the table but mainly the woman and man sitting across from each other. There is no unity or variety that appears in the artwork. The artwork is in proportion. There is no movement in the picture considering the people are sitting down at the table. There is no rhythm or pattern in the artwork that is involved.
