The oil on canvas painting by Thomas Cole named The Fountain of Vaucluse is a painting that is best appreciated in person. The painting is something that can’t be seen in just a few minutes to really take in all that it has to offer. The different emphasis on colors, and the use of 2D and 3D visual illustrations can be over-welling to the viewer. As I gazed upon the painting I found my viewpoint of interest change do to the altered landscape illusion that came into focus. The artist Thomas Cole was born in Bolton, Lancashire Northwestern England in 1801. At the age of seventeen he immigrated with his family to the United State in 1818. Young Mr. Cole was fundamentally a self-taught artist but when he and his family moved to Philadelphia, Ohio and Pittsburg he did attend the Philadelphia Academy. While attending the academy his first canvases works were included in the Academy’s exhibitions. When Thomas Cole returned to Great Britain and also traveled to France and Italy he meet wealthy Americans traveling abroad and received numerous commissions, which made him …show more content…
The painting has become know as The Fountain of Vaucluse, which is oil on canvas painting. I had the pleasure of viewing his painting in the Dallas Museum of Art. The shire massive scale 86 ¼ X 66 ½ inch painting has 2D, 3D flat surface visual elements, fore, middle and backgrounds that shows the arts use of space and overlapping perspectives. The painting organic feel and emphasis on nature shows Thomas Cole eye for detail without over doing it with to many colors choices. Cole used dark shading and deep warm colors to draw his audience into the art piece. The uses of deep shaded hunter green colors for the trees and hills side, hints of red for the mountain flowers and roof top, turquoise blue is used for the river. Warm caramel and brown tinting is used on the towering
The colors used in the painting are dark and some parts bright illustrating a focal point being the skull in the center as well as the quill, both surrounded by darker colors in comparison.
This work shows impeccably drawn beech and basswood trees. It was painted for a New York collector by the name of Abraham M. Cozzens who was then a member of the executive committee of the American Art-Union. The painting shows a new trend in the work of the Hudson River School. It depicts a scene showing a tranquil mood. Durand was influenced by the work of the English landscape painter John Constable, whose vertical formats and truth to nature he absorbed while visiting England in 1840.
This painting is one of the most well know because the painting show the division of the untouched wilderness to the left, and the cultivated land that is treeless and is covered by field of crops. The diagonal division creates a strong composition which is the first place where the eyes drawn to. The left side of the painting contains the most luscious greenery, which untouched nature should have consist, and the right has more of a yellowish dried and flat landscape where humans contaminated the area. The foreground has a large broken or dead tree that frames the painting so the eyes do not wonder off. The dead trees also represent the untouched land, and rainstorm approaches on left side of the sky dramatizing it. The large river that divided the land has a shape of a loop, which indicated the bow of wooded collar of the yoked ox. Just like that painting from The Clove, Cole small figure in his painting would represent the size of the landscape. The composition gives the figure a feeling of isolation in the wilderness. In The Oxbow, the small figure is John Cole himself, small and very hidden in the bushes, being present in the untamed side of
There are also a bunch of children that are portrayed playing inside and on top of the stagecoach. The colors that are used in this painting are all realistic, this is very important because it portrays what a warm summer day would be like on a farm. There are a lot of different colors such as bright green grass and bright colors for the clothes that the children are wearing. There are quite a few principles and elements that are used in the painting. One of the first principles that I noticed was the emphasis on the stagecoach.
When looking at the painting it gives us a glimpse of the past. It looks almost like a photograph. The fine detail from the building on the right with the statue on top. The citizens walking around.
The mixed reaction I have towards the painting is because, first off, I still wouldn’t know what is really behind it or what it’s trying to tell us without looking at it from a distance. When I looked at it from a computer desktop I could see a shoe, a mountai...
During my trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario, I found there to be one painting that surely stood out and made an unique impression on me, it was certainly a painting unlike the rest of the in the gallery. When my eyes met those of the portrait of Dr. Heinrich by Otto Dix, I was deeply intrigued and found myself to be drawn to the piece and inspecting it the longest out of the all the options of paintings that I saw at the AGO.
Georges Seurat used the pointillism approach and the use of color to make his painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, be as lifelike as possible. Seurat worked two years on this painting, preparing it woth at least twenty drawings and forty color sketched. In these preliminary drawings he analyzed, in detail every color relationship and every aspect of pictorial space. La Grande Jatte was like an experiment that involved perspective depth, the broad landscape planes of color and light, and the way shadows were used. Everything tends to come back to the surface of the picture, to emphasize and reiterate the two dimensional plane of which it was painted on. Also important worth mentioning is the way Seurat used and created the figures in the painting.
An artwork will consist of different elements that artists bring together to create different forms of art from paintings, sculptures, movies and more. These elements make up what a viewer sees and to help them understand. In the painting Twilight in the Wilderness created by Frederic Edwin Church in 1860 on page 106, a landscape depicting a sun setting behind rows of mountains is seen. In this painting, Church used specific elements to draw the viewer’s attention directly to the middle of the painting that consisted of the sun. Church primarily uses contrast to attract attention, but it is the different aspects of contrast that he uses that makes the painting come together. In Twilight in the Wilderness, Church uses color, rhythm, and focal
own painting. He sees some figures, along with a castle and somewhat of a landscape. The artist
While he was still in his twenties, Cole was made a fellow of the National Academy (thomascole.org). Many artists started following in Cole's footsteps and this was the beginning of the Hudson River School. Hudson River School was an art movement that was influenced by romanticism. In 1829-1831, Cole returned to Great Britain for study, to attend to family business and to travel to France and Italy (thomascole.org). Wealthy Americans traveled to Europe to discover their identity around the same time. This benefited Cole greatly because his reputation increased and his wealth as well. Cole became one of the most famous landscape artists. His best-known series of paintings, also my favorite, came after he returned from Europe in 1832. The series was known as “ The Course of Empire.” This series displayed some of Cole's darker and realistic paintings. Thomas Cole married Maria Bartow around the same time that Cole's father and his patron Luman passed away. A few years later Cole became more religious and started developing another series of paintings called “The Cross and the World.” And on February 11, 1848, Thomas Cole died from lung problems. Even with such a short life, Cole had a successful career as an artist. He was considered the founder of the Hudson River School and he developed numerous works of arts that are still studied to this
Constable was born in Suffolk, England on June 11, 1776. The second son of a wealthy corn merchant, it was expected Constable would go into business. His older brother suffered from various disabilities; as a result, Constable was well educated and groomed to take over the family business from his father. Constable would go into the family business, but unsatisfied with his career in commodity trading, he desired to follow his passion for painting. He would travel the Suffolk area and sketch the landscapes. He was encouraged in his work by the professional painter John Thomas Smith, but Smith urged him to stay in business and only pursue his art recreationally. Eventually he convinced his fa...
In January of 1826, Cole had become to be known for founding the National Academy of Design. During this time, many would comission him to paint pictures of American scenery, but his primary desire and goal, he says, was to create a “higher style of landscape that would express moral or religious tones.” In 1836, Cole married Maria Barstow and settled in Catskill, New York. Catskill would obviously become the inspiration for his piece, “Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River”. From these paintings he influenced many other artists. Among these artists were Frederick Edwin Church and Albert Bierstadt.
Archibald Motley Jr. was born in 1891 in New Orleans. Ever since, Archibald was a child he had the desire to be an artist. His family moved to a Chicago neighborhood in the 1890’s, but the family would take frequent trips back to New Orleans in the summer. Later we find out that these two similar settings were the determining factor for Archibald’s paintings. He decided to study art at the Institute of Chicago and was recognized by being one of the few African American artists during that time.
painting even though the event represented in the painting took place long before the Roman Empire. The center temple that occupies the background has a vanishing point running through its doorway and if it weren’t for this illusionistic technique, the painting would be very two-dimensional.