Oil painting Essays

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

assignment theme is based on Vietnamese oil painting. I have found out that oil painting is not originated from Vietnam, but Vietnamese artist through times have develop oil panting skills and techniques to a different stage. Therefore my intension is to thoroughly analyse the painting processes and techniques of Vietnamese oil painting during the period of war to the development of the Socialist republic of Vietnam (1960-1976) and I will compare two painting from this period with two contemporary

painter who infuses light into his paintings creating incredibly romantic and tranquil scenes. Kinkade’s oil painting “The Sea of Tranquility” is part of his collection of “Seaside Memories V” published in 1998. This painting was created in hope of people to remind themselves of how the way things once were or the way they could be. Many of Kinkade’s scenes of peace and nostalgia was painted based o family travels or memories. The medium of this art pies is oil on canvas, which gave the ability for

and contrast two high renaissance, oil paintings. The first is The Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci which is one of the most famous works of art in the world. The second painting is The Small Cowper Madonna, which was created by Raffaello Sanzio better known as Raphael, was a high Renaissance Italian painter and architect. Both paintings are actually portraits that exhibit many similar artistic techniques. I chose both of these painting simply because The High Renaissance

This oil painting created in 1647 by Diego Velazquez illustrates the Goddess Venus laying down across a bed, gazing into a mirror being held up by an angel. The image of Venus differentiates from past classical representations of the Goddess. The most notable differences being the way the Venus is facing, and the lack of soft rounded curves. The female in the painting is more slender, and the painter accentuates the transition of her muscles. Additionally, her hair is in a bun opposed to flowing

The combination of being a perfectionist and a procrastinator, were traits that did not serve him well. This very combination is the host of many a brilliant minds. 3) One of the first in Italy to use oil paints. For egg tempera was the ways of other painters at that time; Definition: Egg tempera is a paint made from pigment and egg yolk (the yellow) as a binder. Water is added to thin the paint to the consistency desired. As eggs go off quickly, only

Imagine God was a Christian patron in the mid 1400s and God commissioned a painting capturing the scene of a virgin’s decent into the next life. How would a Northern Renaissance artist commemorate God’s vestal virgin’s last day on earth and ascension on to heaven without any references to the event? According to Maryan Ainsworth in her book Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges “The Virgin’s death is not recounted in the Bible,” however, Jacobus de Voragine tells a story of an angel summoning

Lavinia Fontana’s painting Christ with the Symbols of the Passion was painted in 1576 on with with oil paints. This painting is currently on display in the El Paso Museum Art. The painting is a small, quaint painting framed in the Baroque section. Her painting is in fact not Baroque, however a painting of mannerism. Mannerism emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, lasting until about 1580 in Italy, when the Baroque style began to replace it. Fontana was a resident

Judith Geher is a Toronto-based artist who’s speciality is simply portraying the female form in a way that she finds beautiful. In an interview with frankie.com, Geher said that “I paint what is beautiful to me. It's very personal. I am inspired by fashion imagery, and I know that beauty or the portrayal of beauty is controversial, but I can't help succumbing to it and I paint it the way I see it”. Her strong usage of muted tones in contrast with striking spots of saturated, dark hues offer a sense

Terrain, Edie Marshall’s installation of 1000 lushly worked oil paintings, is a record of a road trip through the Great Plains of North America. Over the duration of the trip, made in 2013, Marshall took over 1500 photos on her iPhone. Randomly shooting images on impulse, most of the photos are landscapes taken from the passenger seat of the moving car, though shots also include excursions into towns, cities, historic sites, an aquarium, hiking trails, parks, and roadside vistas. Upon returning

The sculpture that I found the most fascinating was “The Three shades” sculpture. This sculpture is part of a much bigger sculputure entittled “Gates of Hell”. Created in 1886 by Auguste Rodin, was one piece of “The Gates of Hell” which was in fact very special because it stands at the top of the sculpture. To make the this fascinating sculpture, it took Auguste Rodin 20 to 37 years of his lifetime. To construct the entire was quite in fact a headache for him because by the time he needed to construct

“Their Beauty Has More Meaning,” written by Robinson Jeffers is seventeen lines that all flow with admiration for nature. Jeffers introduced the poem solemnly with the title referring to a their, leaving the audience wondering to whom Jeffers is referring to. Throughout the poem, Jeffers focuses on five forces: storms, the moon, the ocean, dawn, and the birds. There are certain words that are structured differently to show emphasis and the importance of these words to the author. After carefully

I visited the Portland Art Museum of Thursday the 22nd. RIght away, I noticed the architecture of the building. Primarily how the sections of the museum were very orderly, separated. It allowed me to be able to walk through each of the sections and look at almost all the of the art without getting lost. So, that is what I did. I started in the Early Chinese Art section. The first piece of art that stood out to me was named simply Tortoise. The sculpture used flowing, curved lines to create a stylised

Palladian Architecture Andrea Palladio, who was originally named Andrea di Pietro della Gondola is considered to be the greatest architect of northern Italy during the 16th-century. Palladio was born November 30, 1508 in Padua, Republic of Venice and passed away August of 1580 in Vicenza. During his time, this Italian architect was influenced greatly by Roman and Greek architecture which led him to design both palaces and villas, the most notable villa being Villa Rotonda. Palladio’s architecture

is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people in a downtown diner late at night. Many artists have produced works that allude or respond to Nighthawks. Hopper influenced many of the Photorealists of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Ralph Goings, who evoked Nighthawks in several paintings of diners. Visual artist Richard Estes painted a corner store in People's Flowers (1971) with the shop's large window reflecting the street and sky. Nighthawks painting of a bright

The first painting, “Keith” is a painting done by the man named Chuck Close. This painting captures the detail of a man with an intense look upon his face. Chuck Close uses extreme details to make the painting seem as if it were a photograph taken by a camera. The painting is done in black white and gray. For this painting, Close used acrylic on a canvas. Close takes a photograph and creates a grid on both the

Imagine you were in the time period of the 19th century when oil paintings were becoming more common in the world. The two painting that I chose were The Wivenhoe Park Essex by John, Constable in 1816 and the other painting I chose was The Scream by Edvard Munch in 1893. I chose these two painting because I thought The Wivenhoe Essex reminded me of my cabin up north and the scenery of northern Minnesota with the lakes and pastures in the background. The Wivenhoe art piece looks like a modern day

contemporary paintings and artwork. One of these masterpieces is a painting, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 by an American artist, John Trumbull. The exact date it was created is unknown, however, historians believe it to be in the fall of 1785 (Lane). This iconic painting gives an insight into one of the most significant battles of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Bunker Hill. This painting identifies as historical painting. The medium is oil on canvas

This piece was named “Endgame”. It’s oil on canvas that was created in 1944 and it is 17 inches by 17 inches. This painting is a surrealist style. The painting is a chess board with four rooks displayed in the upper right corner and they are white and light blue. From the rooks, there are faint white lines representing the queens moves on the board. These lines lead up to a satin heeled female shoe that represents the queen. The shoe is crushing a bishops mitre (representing the bishop chess piece)

paper- Formal description of Art This piece “Autumn Landscape” is an oil painting on canvas by Robert Ducanson in 1864. It is on Wilson College Moodle website in the Art Appreciation course under 18th and 19th century slides. This is a landscape painting displaying a multitude of colors usually seen in autumn, when nature forms a picturesque vista. The colors, value, lines, and motion impart a blissful look which this painting portrays this in an exceptional way. The primary colors present are