Marisol Chavez
Art Appreciation 1301
Mr. Saenz
December 9, 2016 Diego Rivera was born December 8th, 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico (1). He first began creating art and murals at the age of three after the death of his twin brother (2). His parents caught him but rather then punishing him for it they instead nurtured his growing creativity by installing canvas and chalkboards on the walls (2). At the age of 10, Rivera went to further his knowledge at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City (1).
In 1907, Diego travelled to Europe to continue his education; while in Europe, he became friends with several artists, among them are Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Piet Mondrian (2). Rivera was able to view influential works by Paul
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Such controversy that followed him is one of the aspects of his art that made him stand out as a muralist during his lifetime (1). As with most artist his paintings became famous after his death (2) in 1957 due to heart failure in Mexico City, Mexico (1). His radical approach to art and his unique style have created a lasting impression on art and continue to do so (2). Widely regarded as the most influential Mexican artist of the twentieth century (3), Diego Rivera created a legacy in paint that continue to inspire the imagination and mind (2).
"Flower Festival: Feast of Santa Anita," this painting depicted a flower festival held on Good Friday in a town then called Santa Anita (4). It was created in the year 1931 with dimensions of 199.3 x 162.5 cm; the medium was encaustic on canvas (4). This asymmetrical painting shows us the artist usage of line seen on the stems of the flowers, color by its different hues through, unity by the variety of its shapes and harmony to show its similarities seen all through out the painting. It can now be found in the "Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo," in Mexico
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In 1934 Rivera renamed his mural "Man, Controller of the Universe," it has dimensions of 15.75 x 37.5 feet and the medium used was fresco paint (5). This famous mural can be seen in the "Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes," in Mexico City. He combined several elements by using large shapes to small shapes, dark hues to light hues, as well as line which all lead to a focal point in the middle of the mural to put emphasis on the central figure. It has asymmetrical balance and it showed Capitalism vs.
Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South and Madonna Enthroned are very similar images that were produced by very different cultures. Both images were produced during the 13th Century. The image of Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South was produced in Tibet during an interesting period of the country’s religious history. The branch of Tibetan Buddhism is led by a religious and sometimes political leader called the Dalai Lama. It was during the 13th Century during the reign of Kublai Khan, around the time of the production of this painting, that Tibet experienced the first incarnation of the Dalai Lama. One has to wonder if this painting is somehow related to that occurrence. According to one source, the reincarnation system for the Living Buddhas is the main point distinguishing Tibetan Buddhism from other forms of Buddhism.
Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain, to an artist and museum curator, Jose Ruiz Blasco. As a young child he surprised his elders with his astounding artistic abilities; and, as Rachel Barnes points out in her introduction to Picasso by Picasso: Artists by Themselves, there seemed to be no doubt that Picasso would become a painter.
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...
Born in 1881, the son of Jose Ruiz Blaso and Maria Picasso Lopez. Young Picasso at the start of age 7 had lessons involving art from his father. His father taught figure drawing and oil painting to him at that point. Pablo started his first oil paintings as portraits of his family eventually doing caricatures of villagers. By 13 he was working on his own oil paintings. In 1895 he lost his younger sister to diphtheria. (Pablo Picasso's Early Life - Before 1901).
...le artists include Mariscal, Guillermo Perez-Villalta, and the artist duo La Costus. An unconventional but wildly popular artist of La Movida was the graffiti artist Juan Carlos Argüello, usually known by his tag, “Muelle”. He painted his tag all over Madrid and became extremely well-known. Once as he was driving away after painting his tag a police officer pulled him over. After asking him if he had painted the tag, the officer just asked for Muelle’s autograph! Another personality was Francisco Umbral, a writer for the periodical El País.
Art movement’s characteristics vary from nation to nation, but painting can be used as a critique of the socio-political reality in a given nation. It is a creative way to communicate with a population about economic, education and social issues. Therefore, The History of Cuernavaca and Morelos: Crossing the Barranca (ravine) Detail (1929-30) Fresco by Diego Rivera is a good example of how an artist uses his creativity to connect with people in relation to Mexican history. Art is an inspired way to share the complexity and challenge of a community. It can be used a way to respond to them likewise. Therefore, the concept of accessibility takes ingenuity. With his deepen knowledge of European and ancient Mexican art, it was not a documentation
Picasso was born into a very artistic family on October 25th 1881. At the age of 14 he started producing and selling oil paintings. He was a very determined young man and dropped out of a renowned art school
Born in July of 1882 in New York, Hopper grew up interested in art and encouraged by his parents. After attending both the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York City and the New York School of Art, Hopper experienced a shift in interest from illustrations to the fine arts1. While studying with the impressionist artist William Merritt Chase and the realistic painter Rober...
According to Cabanne, P. (1977) Pablo Picasso was born in October 25 1881 in Malaga Picasso was a spanish artist, Picasso was deceased in Mougins on April 8, 1973 Picasso is best known for his paintings, and is one of the best artists or the twentieth century. Picasso was also one of the founders and part of the Cubist movement. Pablo Picasso’s full name was José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Pablo Diego Trinidad Ruiz Picasso Crispin Crispiniano of Santissima. Picasso 's father, Don José Ruiz y Blanco, was both a professor of drawing and a painter at the school of Malaga called "San Telmo". His Mother, Dona Maria has arabic origins and is actually originally from Andalusia. Picasso goes back to the allegorical. In the 1920s, he crosses
Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueras, Spain (“Salvador Dali”). He became to be known as the most influential and the most famous painter known in the twentieth century. On January 23, 1989, in Figueras, Spain Dali had died from a cardiac arrest at the age of 84 (“Salvador Dali”). However, his paintings and artworks are still around and are located at the Salvador Dali Museum, in Saint Petersburg, Florida. The Salvador Dali Museum holds the largest collection of Dali’s artworks outside of Europe and the museum shelters the artwork with an eighteen-inch concrete wall (“The Building”). Two of the most famous and memorable artworks located in the Salvador Dali Museum are called The Hallucinogenic Toreador and Lincoln in Dalivision. These two artworks have influenced many new inspiring artists to paint and to express his or her self like the influential Dali himself, in which he has captivated many viewers who had visited the Salvador Dali Museum.
Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga. Picasso’s father, who was a drawing teacher at the Escuela Provin cal de Bell Artes starting teaching Picasso how to paint. His father recognized and encouraged his son’s talent as an artist. His childhood and teenage drawings showed his father’s repertory, an interest with the bullfight and conventional academic work. He enrolled in his father’s drawing classes in 1892 and produced about fifteen oil portraits in 1895.He did experiments with caricatures and sketches in 1894. At fourteen years old in 1895, Picasso passed exams to enter the high level courses in classical art and still life. He studied the old master paintings in 1897 and he critized the teaching of the academia real de. During the next couple of years Picasso began to assert his independence and went out and found a studio and started ...
Velázquez was born in Seville on June 6, 1599, the oldest of six children; both his parents were from the minor nobility. Between 1611 and 1617 the young Velázquez worked as an apprentice to Francisco Pacheco, a Sevillian Mannerist painter who became Velázquez's father-in-law. During his student years Velázquez absorbed the most popular contemporaneous styles of painting, derived, in part, from both Flemish and Italian realism.
Perhaps one of the world's greatest artists is the Hispanic artist Salvador Dali. He won
Salvador Dali was born in 1904 and passed away in 1989. He had been what the critics call an eccentric genius, a self proclaimed madman, and had lived a life of fame and fortune, mingling with the zenith of society and living what is popularly known as the high life. He was renowned for his insanity, the king of the absurd, and this came through in his paintings as much as it did through what he said. He has become the ambassador for surrealist art and surrealist philosophies, and his works are still causing controversy 11 years after his death. Or still being admired 11 years after his death.
Pablo Picasso was born with a natural ability to paint. He was born on October 25, of 1881 in the town of Malaga, Spain. According to a blog written by Alex Santoso, “Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. He was named after various saints and relatives. The "Picasso" is actually from his mother, Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father is named Jose Ruiz Blasco.” When Pablo Picasso wa...