Johannes Vermeer painted The Art of Painting in the Netherlands. It is an oil on wood painting made in 1673. The painting shows a figure in black sitting down on a four legged object. This figure in black is holding a long object in its right hand. Next to the figure in black is an unfinished painting of an elegant figure in blue. The figure in blue is posing and holding objects in both hands. Inside the room there is a chandelier on top and it is not emitting any light. The floors have black and white tiles like a checkers board. The table in front of the figure in blue has several fabrics on top.
Vermeer’s artwork emphasizes some certain elements and principles of art. He uses value on the blue figure to show more emphasis of it. He also uses the element of line on the on the black and white tiles. It shows balance on how the black and white tiles are in symmetry. There is form being used on the black figure which has movement when holding an object in its
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He asked his wife if he she could assist him with his latest piece and she agreed to help. They both agreed to work in his workshop underneath their house. The painter worked several days and nights to come up with a spectacular image for his painting. His undecidedness caused a messy situation to occur on top of his table from having to choose the perfect dress for his wife to wear. The painter must have thought of the objects for her to hold too for the painting. There was another object had had thought of her to hold but then he changed his mind knowing it would be too heavy for her to hold for several hours. That is why he put it back on the table and chose moderate objects for her to handle. She did not mind holding the pose for several hours because she was comfortable sitting and doing nothing than doing household chores. This painting represents the daily life of an artistic husband and
Large and medium sizes of the forms dominate over small in the painting. The arrangement of the objects in this art piece is mostly centric. However, even though it is central, it is not symmetrical. The painter also touched the left edge of the burlap and the right bottom corner of it; this helps viewer’s eye to enter the painting smoothly, move around and escape from it. The asymmetry of the arrangement creates the sense of imbalance. Lam uses basic lines and shapes in the composition. Nevertheless, the painter creates wonderful light movement inside the figure with wavy shapes, which directs viewer’s eye from the top to the
Looking at different pieces of art work at the art museum and one-piece in particular impressed me. It’s called “View of Molo”, painted by Giovanni Antonio Canal. Giovanni Canal was born in Venice, Italy in 1697. This particular piece was painted circa 1730-1735. The piece hangs at the El Paso Museum of Art in El Paso, Texas. The painting is part of the permanent collection donated by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 1961. The art work was done on canvas using oil. The painting can be found in the Baroque and Rococo Period Gallery.
The two painters Jan Van Eyck (c.1390-1441) and Hans Memlinc (d.1494) are both considered great masters of Northern Art. Van Eyck is known for his execution of naturalistic detail and creating translucency in his panels. Memlinc is known for his financially minded cornucopia of work and for revolutionising the genre of portraiture. However, their differences are more pointed than there similarities. Both artists are mindful of the traditions of the Flemish school, such a the use of light to create a sense of the third dimension on the panel and the importance of landscape and background. Both artists worked in Bruges at some point; Van Eyck was an earlier master who moved to Bruges in 1430 until his death. Memlinc was German but settled there in 1465 until his death. The paintings by Van Eyck that shall be discussed are The Ghent Altarpiece, Madonna with Chancellor Rolin, Portrait of a Man and The Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife. The paintings by Memlinc that will be discussed are The Diptych of Maarten Nieuwenhove, Portrait of a Young Man Before a Landscape and The Donne Altarpiece.
The major structures in the painting consist of an umber colored cross and three ladders. Starting from the top of the image, there is an old man with a scraggly, white beard holding onto and leaning over the top beam of the cross. He is set off by color, wearing a bright red gown and azure head wrap. The majority of his body rests atop the cross while he stands on the ladder that is leaning on the back of the cross.
This piece is acrylic, oilstick, and spray paint on wood panel that is 186.1 centimeters in height and 125.1 centimeters in width. This piece features a human-like figure in the center that is mostly half red and half black. This figure has a gray head with one yellow eye and one light gray eye and above its head is a black halo. The background consists of patches of various colors such as light blue, black, dark red, light green, beige, turquoise, pink, and yellow. On the bottle left corner there is a figure drawn that looks like a fish and has a strip of mustard yellow painted through it. Also towards the bottom right of the artwork, there is some drawn on letters that almost look like words but are messily painted over with a desert sand color. This piece is my favorite because I find it aesthetically pleasing. There is a lot going on in this piece that makes looking at it genuinely interesting. The colors that Basquiat choses for the background go very well together and overall compliment the figure in the center. I like how incredibly expressive this piece is and it makes me want to buy a canvas and start painting that I desire. I also like how the human-like figure is drawn. One could see what looks like an outlined ribcage on the figure, which makes me believe that the head is actually a skull. Upon further research I learned that Basquiat was
Johannes Vermeer was born on October, 31st 1632, in Delft, Netherlands, and died December, 16 1675. Jan was one of the best artists during that period of time. He, had many successes, but one painting that capture everyone’s attention was, Girl with a Pearl Earring, an 18 ¼ x 15 ¼ in. Size portrait, painted in 1655, and represented to be an oil on canvas painting. This portrait can be viewed in Mauritshuis, The Hague. The genre of this painting is a historical fiction, as in the subject it was about daily life situations, and an ordinary girl. Johannes Vermeer made this painting be a representational, because it showed is emotions, patients, and dedication. Also, it represents a woman and how this painting became to be. Girl with a Pearl Earring,
The first thing one notices when looking at this piece of work is the clock with the gold ring around it slightly off to the left. It is sitting on something that looks like a shelf. The reason the eyes are drawn to this particular clock first is the contrast in color, and it is the biggest clock in the painting however; it is not the only clock. With this particular clock with the gold ring is placed on a shelf painted in a tan color. In comparison to the other clocks, which are painted with silver rings around them, this clo...
images in this painting, all of which have the power to symbolize to us, the viewer, of the painter’s
Faggin, Giorgio T and Hughes, Robert. The Complete Paintings of the Van Eycks. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976. Print.
In this piece Benny has depicted himself in the artwork creating another piece of artwork. He is standing at a 45° angle as if he has been interrupted by us, the viewer. This is how Benny engages us, the viewer into his painting. As if we are just as much a part of it as he is. When looking at his painting from a distance it seems as if it is just another oil painting but upon closer observation you can clearly see the different fabrics that he uses to create the collage and which gives the painting its textures. He shows space in the painting by leaving the wall on which the canvas hangs, bare, as is the floor with the exception of the box of rags that he uses in his collage.
This painting by Vincent Van Gogh is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum, in the Impressionism exhibit. There are many things going on in this painting that catch the viewer’s eye. The first is the piece’s vibrant colors, light blues and browns, bright greens, and more. The brush strokes that are very visible and can easily be identified as very thick some might even say bold. The furniture, the objects, and the setting are easy to identify and are proportioned to each other. There is so much to see in this piece to attempt to explain in only a few simple sentences.
...hese repeated vertical lines contrast firmly with a horizontal line that divides the canvas almost exactly in half. The background, upper portion of the canvas, seems unchanging and flat, whereas the foreground and middle ground of the painting have a lot of depth to them.
The third painting was by Julian Story and it was called American Born in England. It was a battle painting. The black prince stands out as the focal point. It is the center of the painting and brings notice to the way the other knights are dressed. The Black Knight (the Prince of Wales) stands overlooking King John, who is blind. King John wanted to be in the battle for his country. The background (depth) is shown in the distance by atmospheric perspective. There is a sense of honor in the knight for the king. There is a great use of color. The painting is very life like. The picture seems to come to life, making me feel as if I were part of the painting!
The piece of art I choose to deconstruct was a self portrait of Vincent van Gogh he drew in 1889. I saw the painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The way the self portrait was done is that it is an oil painting on canvas. The background is a dark blue, with him wearing a lighter blue colored smock, white undershirt, yellow-orange hair, and a pale gaunt face. The color used also adds emphasis to the painting. This is due to the main colors being contrasting colors the yellow-orange being a warm color and blue being a cooler color. Unlike some of the other self portraits Vincent van Gogh did that were in lighter and brighter colors that showed that he was in a better place in life and mentally the depressing colors used show that mentally and in life he was depressed
Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain, son of an artist, Jose Ruiz, and Maria Picasso. Rather than adopt the common name Ruiz, the young Picasso took the rarer name of his mother. An artistic prodigy, Picasso, at the age of 14, completed the one-month qualifying examination of the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona in one day. From there he went to the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, returning in 1900 to Barcelona.