Victor Hugo Zayas was born in 1961 and raised in Mazatlan Mexico. Victor moved to the United States in 1977 to study art. In 1981 he graduated from San Diego’s United States International University. Then in 1986 Victor earned his BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, which is where he got most of his training done. The Museum of Latin American Art presents an exhibition by Victor Hugo Zayas’: The River Paintings. The artwork that I decided to study was the L.A. River/Grid Series, water color on paper. This series has four different paintings of the L.A. River, three created in 2012 and one in 2015. Zayas’ L.A. River/Grid Series displays many artistic influences like: the L.A. River, nature, seasons, weather, surroundings, …show more content…
River/Grid Series has affected me because I feel inspired to go out and paint nature. I never painted in watercolor and after visiting his exhibit, motivated to paint again. I think that the painting caught my attention because it has abstract elements and the simplicity. Also, the presentation of the series grabbed my attention because the paintings are framed and the edges of the paper are curved. The paintings not only inspire me to paint, but inspire me to take picture of nature and write music. I can personally connect to the painting because Zayas painted a place he can lose himself. I felt like I lost myself in the exhibit when I was there. Nature, calms and inspires me. I have never been to the L.A. River, but when I saw these paintings it took me to my own world, which is campus. I like to talk walks around campus and embrace nature, even though I have walked through campus a hundred times, I still fascinated by the nature and beauty that surrounds it. In addition, the four paintings reminded me of the art project I did my first semester of college. I painted my housing building four times, at different times of the day. I was inspired by Claude Monet and his paintings Sunrise (Marine), oil on canvas (March or April 1873 CE) and Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (In Sun), 1894 because of the abstract factors, warm colors and artistic style. I believe that I really connected with Zayas work because of my past project, interest in abstract art and art that evokes emotion. In conclusion, I loved Victor Hugo Zayas artwork, especially the four L.A. River/Grid Series and I hope to visit more of his exhibitions in the
Wayne, transforms this painting into a three dimensional abstract piece of art. The focal point of the painting are the figures that look like letters and numbers that are in the front of the piece of art. This is where your eyes expend more time, also sometimes forgiving the background. The way the artist is trying to present this piece is showing happiness, excitement, and dreams. Happiness because he transmits with the bright colours. After probably 15 minutes on front of the painting I can feel that the artist tries to show his happiness, but in serene calm. The excitement that he presents with the letters, numbers and figures is a signal that he feels anxious about what the future is going to bring. Also in the way that the colors in the background are present he is showing that no matter how dark our day can be always will be light to
Water Imagery in the Works of Eudora Welty, Teresa de la Parra, Kate Chopin, and María Luisa Bombal
West 31st Street, NY: Chelsea House, 2009. Print. Fitzpatrick, Virginia. Art history: a contextual inquiry course.
“The St. Johns River Entering the Atlantic Ocean” painted by Hermann Herzog stands in American Art as the most ascetically illustrative picture inspired in the Florida coastline. Although, this German American artist settled in Pennsylvania, he painted primarily landscapes inspired in the areas he visited. He traveled and painted throughout Florida, Maine, California and the Northeast side of the country coast.
Sonia Romero is recognized for representing Latin American imagery and unity in her public works. Specifically, her public work located at MacArthur Park, Urban Oasis, 2010. The mural was commissioned by the Los Angles Metro and it is composed of 13 ceramic mosaic tile that are installed along two facing mezzanine walls. Each panel contains a white and black illustration centered in a circle contained within a square panel that is made of a cement to represent the industrial buildings around the neighborhood (“MacArthur,” n.d.). In the process of making this public work, Sonia Romero initially conducts research and observation studies of the community (Dambrot, 2016). In fact, the 13 illustrations either authentically represent the inhabitants of the community or the historical events that took place in MacArthur Park (Gilbert, 2012). Unfortunately, in society many diverse
Diego Rivera was deemed the finest Mexican painter of the twentieth century; he had a huge influence in art worldwide. Rivera wanted to form his own painting fashion. Although he encountered the works of great masters like Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse, he was still in search of a new form of painting to call his own (Tibol, 1983). His desire was to be capable of reaching a wide audience and express the difficulties of his generation at the same time, and that is exactly what h...
Pablo Picasso is the worlds most renowned artist of the 20th century. He did a variety of skills related to the world of art. Most people remember him as just a painter, but he was more than that. He could do sculpting, drawing, engraving, lithographs, and more. One of his most famous periods of all time, The Blue Period showed all that he was capable of. More than the paintings above all else he learned all his abilities self-taught from his father and the schooling his father helped provide.
From the piece of artwork “Rain at the Auvers”. I can see roofs of houses that are tucked into a valley, trees hiding the town, black birds, clouds upon the horizon, hills, vegetation, a dark stormy sky and rain.
The novel River God by Wilbur Smith is set in Ancient Egypt, during a time when the kingdoms were beginning to collapse and the Upper and Lower Egypt were separated between two rulers. The story is in the view-point of Taita, a highly multi-talented eunuch slave. At the beginning of the story, Taita belongs to Lord Intef and helps manage his estate along with caring for his beautiful daughter, Lostris. She is in love with Tanus, a fine solider and also Taita’s friend. Unfortunately, Lord Intef despises Tanus’s father, Lord Harrab, and Intef was actually the one who the cause of the fall of Harrab’s estate, unknowingly to Lostris and Tanus. Taita’s goal is to bring back Egypt to its former glory, but with so many bandits and invaders it would be a difficult task.
Born in 1886 Diego Rivera was born to a wealthy family living in Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of two his twin brother died and a year later Diego Rivera started drawing, his parents caught him drawing on walls and instead of punishing him nurtured his artistic side by enabling him with the supplies he needed. Throughout his life Diego Rivera was dedicated to art, “He began to study painting at an early age and in 1907 moved to Europe. Spending most of the next fourteen years in Paris, Rivera encountered the works of such great masters as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse.” Influenced by the work of such great minds Rivera began the search for his own signature and contribution to modern art, “Rivera was searching for a new form of painting, one that could express the complexities of his day and still reach a wide audience.” Rivera found the medium he was looking for, a form of street art involving murals painted on fresh plaster, he returned to Mexico to introduce this new form of art to the public. Rivera soon sewed himself into the art community in America, “His outgoing personality puts him at ...
Life can sometime bring unwanted events that individuals might not be willing to face it. This was the conflict of O’Brien in the story, “On The Rainy River”. As the author and the character O’Brien describes his experiences about the draft to the Vietnam War. He face the conflict of whether he must or must not go to the war, in this moment O’Brien thinking that he is so good for war, and that he should not be lost in that way. He also show that he disagree with the consbet of the war, how killing people will benefit the country. In addition O’Brien was terrifying of the idea of leaving his family, friends, and everything that he has done in the past years.
The relationship you have with others often has a direct effect on the basis of your very own personal identity. In the essay "On The Rainy River," the author Tim O'Brien tells about his experiences and how his relationship with a single person had effected his life so dramatically. It is hard for anyone to rely fully on their own personal experiences when there are so many other people out there with different experiences of their own. Sometimes it take the experiences and knowledge of others to help you learn and build from them to help form your own personal identity. In the essay, O'Brien speaks about his experiences with a man by the name of Elroy Berdahl, the owner of the fishing lodge that O'Brien stays at while on how journey to find himself. The experiences O'Brien has while there helps him to open his mind and realize what his true personal identity was. It gives you a sense than our own personal identities are built on the relationships we have with others. There are many influence out there such as our family and friends. Sometimes even groups of people such as others of our nationality and religion have a space in building our personal identities.
Art is said to be the expression of the soul; however, quite often, one is unable to truly know the artist by his or her works alone. So is the case of the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin. while the paintings of Paul Gauguin do not reveal all of his life, the paintings are very much so a reflection of Gauguin’s views on life.
Twain's detailed images of the "gold," (1) "tinted... opal," (1) and "silver" (1) river, paint the beauty he finds in the surroundings. The "graceful curves, reflected images, woody heights, soft distances; and... marvels of coloring" (1) depict the opinion Twain has of the river. This beauty has been learned and appreciated through the years of living along the river and is revealed through his images.
Vanitas, found in many recent pieces, is a style of painting begun in the 17th Century by Dutch artists. Artists involved in this movement include Pieter Claesz, Domenico Fetti and Bernardo Strozzi . Using still-life as their milieu, those artists and others like them provide the viewer with ideas regarding the brevity of life. The artists are giving us a taste of the swiftness with which life can fade and death overtakes us all. Some late 20th Century examples were shown recently at the Virginia Museum of Art in Richmond, Virginia. Among the artists represented in this show were Miroslaw Balka (Polish, b. 1958), Christian Boltanski (French, b. 1944), Leonardo Drew (American, b. 1961), Felix Gonzalez-Torres (American, b. Cuba, 1957- 1996), Jim Hodges (American, b. 1957), Anish Kapoor (British, b. India, 1954), and Jac Leirner (Brazilian, b. 1961).