There is very little space in this painting, as the background is mostly dark leaving the work with only a depth of two dimensions. In the background, the value of brown gets lighter only at the bottom of the painting, and shows the trace of a shadow indicating there is a faint light on the man. Repetition is only used to create an interesting pattern of clothing for the man. This work is a form of representational art since it presents a subject and objects from reality, which include the man, the gun (or arquebus), and the clothes as well. The presence of a gun (modern weaponry) suggests that this painting was from colonial South America and represents people from a higher status, based on the quality of clothing.
The painting depicts several homes, power lines with foliage growing up them, and a blue sky with white clouds. The use of oil works to Kroutel’s benefit in his use of it in this painting in particular, due to the both naturalism and abstractism pieces used. For example, the houses at the bottom of the artwork are not detail-oriented per se, but there is a very real sense to them, as if the viewer would be able to see houses similar to these walking down any street in Athens. On the contrary, the sky is painted in a very thick manner, with the brushstrokes left clearly visible. While in some cases, repetition works to create a pattern, in the case of Athens County/Vines,
The painting is very smooth with no really significant textures and it uses almost the whole canvas with the exception of the white background which I think makes the black figures, shapes, and lines stand out more that way you won’t miss the focal point. The way the animal and man is placed you can almost picture what’s going to happen next because the animal looks like it’s about to jump and attack the man that’s on his knees in the
Artist at this time wanted to expose the feelings and emotions that were being felt that was not always seen it earlier art
The medium executed in the canvas is oil paint. From the original location, the artist intends viewer to visual the painting in only one orientation. The painting is located directly in front of the viewer. This critique points the description, thorough analysis and viewers judgement of the artwork.
Kerra Leinen US History Period 4 Mrs. Goodall May 15, 2015 HJRP Final Draft Leo Zulueta is known as the father of modern tribal tattooing in the US because he not only introduced the U.S. to these cultural arts but he made his own style out of it. Tattooing in the U.S. was something that was not very socially acceptable, but now it is becoming increasingly more popular. In many cultures, tattooing was used as an art form, but also a way to identify certain people. Leo Zulueta is important to the tattooing world because he created a unique style and was one of many tattoo artists that helped change the public opinion of tattoos.
The appealing factor of this paintings comes from its message and juxtaposition of colours and stroke
The painting has a light and smooth finish to finish to it, and at the same time the bold outlines of the male figures appear like a sketching. Little detail compared to the woman in the center of the canvas. The clouds are dark and made with
Imagine pixels on a television painted with oil on a canvas, this pointillism concept was portrayed in Paul Signac’s Place des Lices, St. Tropez. In 1893, color theory, the idea of mixing colors and the visual effects of color combinations, was becoming well known. He and another artist, Seurat, developed neo impressionism, also known as pointillism or divisionism. As an artist, he focused on landscapes and using vivid, contrasting colors to convey the effects of light on his objects (Gerlings 100). Signac’s Place des Lices, St. Tropez, has many Hellenistic qualities such as motion in the painting, the use of color to portray light and shadow, and the illustration of emotion in an everyday scene.
This essay examines one of the many self-portrait paintings by Frida Kahlo called ‘broken column’ (1944). In this painting Kahlo portrays herself as a complete full bodied woman while also reflecting her broken insides. She stands alone against a surreal barren fissured landscape that echoes the open wound in her torso. A broken stone column replaces her damaged spine and is protected by a white orthopaedic corset, while sharp nails pierce into her olive naked flesh. Frida is partially nude except for the corset and white bandages.
Thus, Magritte most likely created this canvas painting in hopes to bring awareness to the way overthinking and being psychologically overwhelmed can become suffocating, eliminating the chance for intimacy in a romantic relationship between two people. Because of this, it will cause much frustration and continuous strain. These are the things that many people were ignoring, but Magritte urged for the public to think
This painting is from the Greek mythology. Agnolo Bronzino uses very highly saturated colors or in other words vibrant colors. The main form during Mannerism is that all figures are distorted and elongated. The figures are never well proportioned so it will look like some have long necks or even long bodies. This artwork also shows that is very compressed and it has very limited space.
In my media exploration and comparison, I chose to compare an oil painting and an acrylic painting. The first painting I want to talk about is “The Scream” painted in Norway in 1893 by Edvard Munch. This is an oil based painting, that uses strong colors to contrast statements. The painting meaning is simple, a man walking on a bridge has a strong moment of anxiety and stress causing an existential crisis therefore his facial expression. Using the bright colors and a wavy sort of spinning type strokes he tries to show us his feelings in his emotional state.
In addition, the majority of the surrealists tended to use more a traditional means of painting, i.e. realism, instead of the free use of colour, brushstroke and technique as used by earlier artists. The use of realism was to make the audience question if the objects were real or imitations and to make them look like photographs. Artists like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte used oil paints on canvas in a realism style. For example, in their paintings ‘The Persistence of Memory’ and ‘The Lovers’ (1928), they chose a realistic style with surreal images. Dali’s subject matter explored things like melting clocks, which could represent the flexibility of dreams/time or that memories last forever; a pool of water in the background, which could represent the drug induced hallucinations in the quest to enter the subconscious; a sleeping face, which could symbolise how Dali’s ideas came from his
