Similar to Picasso’s Seated Woman, Wright is trying to depict the underlying substructure of the body instead of the form of the woman as seen by the eye. While Picasso’s work is comprised of cubic grids, Wright’s painting is more organic and comprises of curves formed by the boundaries of color. The title of the artwork---Synchromy in Purple Minor, shows the painter’s interest and focus on the exploration of color in an unprecedented way. He is using color to convey sense of space and create synesthetic sound and rhythm. Like Kandinsky, Wright is also trying to create sound and rhythm through abstract painting.
I chose to write about Jim Germaux’s Parallel Play because it evokes beauty in a unique way using pattern, line, and color Germaux’s Parallel Play exemplifies beauty through eye-catching pattern. Each piece of this collection uses an arrangement of circles in a manner that is organized and yet spontaneous. The location of each circle is unpredictable, but the way the Germaux arranges the circles in his painting, side-by-side in no particular order, creates a sense of movement and playfulness that is attractive to the viewer’s eye. The viewer is drawn in by the mass quantity of these circles and is then challenged to look upon the spontaneity of the arrangement, and to try to find familiar patterns within. Germaux is making the viewer move his or her eyes over the circle pattern in several directions creating a commotion that pulls the viewer into the composition in such an effective way that is beautiful.
Dancer Adjusting her Slipper is a charcoal and pastel drawing that depicts a dancer rearranging her shoe. The way the woman sits portrays a sense of adolescence, unladylike with her legs spread apart. The brown coloring of the lines surrounding the dancer makes one feel that she is getting ready to rehearse or perform a recital. With her head down and adjusting her shoe, one might also think she is deep in thought or mediating about what she will be doing next or depressed over a mistake she made while rehearsing.
One of the best forms of art would have to be music. It allows everyone to connect in some way by expressing how they feel about life. Music has evolved over the years to have many different genres. The music is typically performed by single people and even groups of people. My favorite group of musicians formed back in Memphis, Tennessee in 1996.
An artist’s treasure With the auction Howard Hodgkin: Portrait of the Artist, Sotheby’s not only unveils the private collection of the late painter and collector Howard Hodgkin, but it also reveals how some of these masterpieces influenced his creations Howard Hodgkin, one of the most admired post-world war artists from the UK, had the ability to make colour sing from the canvas. Through rapturous, pigment-loaded strokes he could make a beholder feel the sheer pleasure of being alive. His works were interpreted by many as being abstract, but in reality, Hodgkin created a unique pictorial language about people and places he interacted with. The artist’s eye for the exceptional had reverberated through his own paintings, but it had also lent itself to identifying extraordinary works of art in the most unexpected places. While much has been written about Hodgkin’s collection of Indian miniatures, which was exhibited internationally, it is the kaleidoscope of 400 objects in his private collection that served a more intimate purpose.
Poets utilize various literary and poetic devices that make their poems interesting, comprehensible, and inspirational. Jimmy Santiago Baca and Christina Rossetti are two famous poets who were influenced to write after experiencing tough conditions and obstacles in life. The poems of both poets reflect certain aspects of their lives. The poems “I Am Offering This Poem” and “Cloudy Day” are written by Jimmy Santiago Baca. A Better Resurrection” is a poem written by Christina Rossetti.
“In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.” There’s a hidden meaning or objective behind every artist’s work. We all interpret paintings differently; some art can be forms of phi phenomenon (illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimuli in rapid succession), or others could be interpreting cues such as Monocular and Binocular. We can’t fully understand what the artist is trying to present unless there is an outline, but we can surely look at the texture, colour, line and shape of each painting to get a meaning for ourselves. A person that demonstrates a form of interpreting his art is Stu Oxley.
Paintings, prints, drawing, crafts, photography are all forms of art which many artists specialize and utilize to display their creativity, sometimes bring awareness to certain social issue and also exploit the less fortunate for their fame. Some well-known artists like Vik Muniz in the
Art is term that people use when they do believe it is a piece of art or something special.
Her strong usage of muted tones in contrast with striking spots of saturated, dark hues offer a sense of romanticism that is still rooted in reality. The dreamy and airy qualities are perhaps the things first noticed about Geher’s mostly portrait based work; the half-painted faces offering a almost classical sense of beauty due to the softness in which Geher conveys her subjects. Both the forms and execution are extremely soft and feminine and her brushstrokes almost lend themselves to evolving into floral patterns due to the muted coloring and the process of layering that
We cannot determine where one starts or the other stops. Most of the arts that we see are in time and in space. For example, when we listen to a piece of music, there is a certain time signature that determines at what pace the piece should be played. Marcell Duchamp believed that music is not a time art but a space art. In his piece, Sculpture musicale, he
In this essay, I’m going to discuss the gender roles in the paintings of Dalí, in the film “Un Chien Andalou” by Buñuel and the poems of Federico García Lorca. Gender roles play a huge part within these works. All three of these artists had the ability to showcase something beautiful or majestic through disturbing and off putting imagery. This is what made their work so distinctive compared to many other artists during the surrealist period. The main things all of these artists have in common are their feelings and expressions of gender roles.
Artwork is what gives our life much more flavor to it. Life without art would be dull, and lackluster. Everything would be so basic, bare, and simple. Creativity is what really makes artwork amazing. People really enjoy some artists artwork, and are very passionate about it.
The way artists have used colour,style or reflection to express themselves in their work and the impact of this on my own work. Through a formal analysis and the investigation of style and symbolism in Van Gogh's “Wheatfield with Crows”(Image C) and “ The Old Tower in the Fields” (Image D) one will be able to see that his powerful use of the symbolism adds meaning to his emotive work and his expressive style creates unity throughout his work. Whereas Graciela Bombalova expresses herself through her perceptual style and extreme use of juxtaposed colour in her artwork, “Pastel Portrait of a Boy”(Image F) William Kentridge differs to Van Gogh's and Graciela, as he does not use a traditional medium, but rather interactives with the viewers through the unique use of reflection, as seen in his work, “Medusa”(Image E). Vincent van Gogh was seen as a failure throughout his lifetime.
Like Japanese printmakers of the eighteenth-century, Degas focused on women as his subject for majority of his career. Degas was “captivated by the spontaneous, natural positions into which the most ordinary women’s bodies move” (Ives 35) and he preferred women of everyday life such as ballerinas over famed queens. In his piece The Two Dancers (Figure 4), Degas looked towards Harunobu’s print Young Man Greeted by a Woman Writing a
