Hunter Manning Professor Winn Art 218 C F 5 November 2016 Oxcarts Hauling Stones The oil painting Oxcarts Hauling Stone by Leopold Mariotti displays a simplistic view of commoners working in an Italian countryside. Mariotti uses rough brush strokes but they are clean enough to clearly see the objects he is portraying.
The title of the picture I chose was The Good Shepard. It was a picture in chapter nine with an artist that is unknown. This picture took place in about 300AD. It was founded in one of the largest catacombs in Rome, the catacombs of Domitilla. when the sculpture was founded the legs were cut off, so those were restored by the Greeks at the time, so the sculpture stands about three feet tall.
Following her mother’s death in 1903, Preston travelled with student Bessie Davidson to Europe where they stayed until 1907, studying in Munich and Paris, and travelling in Italy, Spain and Holland. Because she felt much better than those in Germany, she moved to Paris. While becoming in contact with the works of French Post Impressionists, Cezanne, the most architectural of all artists, such as Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, and Roualt, she became quickly aware how to be the best. By learning off these artists, Preston’s style became very reserved, structured, and closely linked to the elements and principles or art. This experience in Paris, also lead her to become aware of the Japanese style of art which featured asymmetry, pattern as the dominant element of design, close up observations of natural patterns, the celebration of particular flora, and a daring engagement with deliberate primitivism.
2. For this assignment, I have chosen a painting created by Bisa Butler titled Four Little Girls. Bisa Butler is a well-known contemporary artist who creates art paintings on quilts. Her art pieces often resonate with black heritage, identity, and history. Using quilts consisting of very attractive designs and colorful patterns, Butler brings awareness to Black culture and history by telling stories through her art, using creativity as an outlet.
How did these obstacles impact how he created art? This is where the analysis of his work goes. Describe the different styles of his portraiture. What are the defining characteristics of each style?
The artist I have is Georgia O’Keeffe. O’Keefe was born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and died on March 6, 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Most of her life she spent in New York. She studied in the University of Virginia and the School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago.
While she taught art in South Carolina and Texas, she was experimenting with the new ideas she had learned. She wanted to find her own personal style, so in 1915 she began working on a collection of abstract charcoal drawings that represented her breaking tradition. She was one of the first artist in America to truly practice abstract art. Later on, O’ Keeffe sent some of her abstract works an associate in New York, who then presented them to Alfred Stieglitz, an art dealer and photographer. He admired them and in 1916 he was the first to exhibit O’ Keeffe’s work.
She decided to spend her entire day drawing and painting as opposed to finding a real job and providing for her children. “Mom devoted herself to her art. She spent all day working on oil paintings, watercolors, charcoal drawings, pen and ink sketches, clay and wire sculptures, silk screens, and wood blocks. She didn 't have any particular style; some of her paintings were what she called primitive, some were impressionistic and abstract, some were realistic. "I don 't want to be pigeonholed," she liked to say.”
Artist at this time wanted to expose the feelings and emotions that were being felt that was not always seen it earlier art
Some of Sherman’s most noteworthy works of art are, “Untitled Film Stills” which shows Sherman in many stereotypical female roles based in the 1950’s. Other works are, history portraits where she had herself made over into a milkmaid and a clergyman to name a few to mimic the job titles throughout history. In her more recent works of art (2008) she depicted the process of aging. These were not the only themes she has chosen throughout the years to embody. She has also touched on cinema, myth, carnival, fairy tale, gender, class identity, and
I recently read the novel Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden and found that the theme of appearance versus reality is very prominent. Many characters come across as much different than they are in reality, like Nobu, a seemingly grouchy man, and Hatsumomo, an outwardly beautiful geisha. Hatsumomo, the resident geisha in the okiya, is famous for being beautiful, but infamous by those who know her well, for having a bad attitude. In Chiyo’s first glimpse of her, she sees how beautiful she is, commenting on the beautiful kimono that and is wearing, and that “her clothing wasn’t the only thing extraordinary about her” (Golden, 36).
Pop art era originated in New York during the mid-1950s and ended in the early 1970s. It focused on familiar places in citizen’s day to day life, creating commercial images and during this time Pop art boomed because of the media World War II was receiving. Roy Lichtenstein’s painting “WHAAM!” would mostly fall under the category of the Pop art era for the reasons being that it is based on an image from a DC comic “All American Man of War” which was published by DC comics in 1962. Lichtenstein presented a powerfully charged scene in an impersonal manner, leaving the viewer to decipher the meaning for themselves. The painting is in a comic style of art (Pop Art) and depicts two fighter jets (one owned by the United States the other owned by the Soviet Union) in the air with one shooting a missile towards the other jet with a humongous “WHAAM!”
Visual Analysis In 1948, one of America’s greatest artist of the 20th century, Andrew Wyeth illustrated the painting Christina’s World. This artist often created paintings that related to personal or general real life issues. The young woman in the painting happened to be a good friend and neighbor to Wyeth. His paintings often depicted the sorrow and despair of life, just like Chirstina’s.
He wanted to draw something soothing, calming and something that would influence the minds of people, he thought of drawing an armchair. “Matisse was heavily influenced by art from other cultures. Having seen several exhibitions of Asian art, and having traveled to North Africa, he incorporated some of the decorative qualities of Islamic art, the angularity of African sculpture, and the flatness of Japanese prints into his own style”. Henri’s aim was to discover "the essential character of things". Between 1908 and 1913 Henri made journey’s to a lot of country’s which are Spain, Germany, Russia, and Africa.
Frida Kahlo created many glorious pieces. One of her most intriguing pieces is The Two Fridas. The image is quite symbolic and meaningful. Kahlo was a Mexican artist greatly known for her self portraits and the pain, passion and feminism of her paintings. The name of the piece I choose to analysis is Las dos Fridas, also known as The Two Fridas.
