Romare Bearden beautiful work of art the Prevalence of Ritual: Tidings is a picture photomontage which is full of borrowed picture fragments, with a few muted colors to portray a mood of melancholy and longing. Making collages was one of his primary medium of expression. I am very familiar with some of his other work and collages is his specialty .I really admire Mr. Romare for his meaningful art work. Every one of his art work tells a story of its own. He is the true example of a devoted artist. He never took short cuts in his art work. He went the extra mile to make sure his work was flawless. It wasn’t just a hobby for him it was a true passion and I can see that through this piece of art. I’ve always liked the picture Prevalence of Ritual: Tidings by: Romare Bearden (pg.5). Honestly this particular art work I picked has somewhat of a love story. It has a hidden message in it. You have to look very closely to understand why he created something so special. This picture is based …show more content…
He shows his love for her by giving her a flower. Which means love, happiness, strength, and kindness. She receives the flower in awe and also in sadness because, she has to leave him. As she stands there with tears filling her eyes. Them both staring deeply into each other eyes wishing they didn’t have to leave one another. As the train slowly approaches in the distance behind them they both get nervous and sad. And at that point they both then knew that the time has come for them to part at once.
Why I picked this picture? Simply because I appreciate Prevalence of Ritual: Tidings by: Romare Bearden. Just from knowing about his work from previous art classes he based his art work on real life situations. In most times it was things he actually went through in his own life as young boy. His art work just isn’t any piece of work it has value. To me every inch of this picture has its own
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
I selected this picture because as soon as I walked into the Evans wing it jumped right out at me. The painting's huge size and grandeur drew my attention. I like the use of bold colors and strong details. The painting evokes an image of power with the muscled Automedon holding two giant horses.
One work that particularly caught my attention was a photograph called “Big James Sweats Bullets” from the series Sugar Children. The content or subject matter of the artwork is representational. The photograph depicts the hardworking children of sugar cane plantations in South America. This particularly photo is a portrait of a dark skinned boy, slightly overweight, standing and grinning. The photo is of neatly arranged granulated sugar across a piece of black paper which produces the image of the boy.
In 1975, Romare Bearden created a series of nineteen collages that he titled Of the Blues. In that same year an exhibition was held at Cordier & Eckstrom Gallery in New York to feature these works. The gallery was filled with collages featuring New York clubs and other music scenes. This series explored jazz and from every angle. Schwartzman says," both series traced jazz from its folk sources, sacred and secular, to the cities in which its major styles evolved (New Orleans, New York, Chicago, Kansas City), then to its performers, and finally to its abstract sounds". The collages from this exhibition showed the extremely personal relationship and interaction that Bearden had with music. He shows us that in the clubs, loud and vibrant music was performed. The music can almost be felt and heard when viewing a depiction of those scenes.
What I see in this piece is peacefulness. Stokes of the paintbrush are perfect to make it look whole. With the sun shinning down making the colors pop out even more. The olive trees glowing in the suns light with the mountains behind it. It is a piece I could look at for a long time with out getting bored. The colors of the piece just make it look so complete. With the lines of the
Titian’s health, inherited from his mountain race, along with his tendencies toward order, balance, and determination, defined the dominant characteristics of the art that he created. He is credited for his being capable of expressing beauty which springs from the deepest happiness of life, and granted his art with that sort of expression. His art was important and has influenced artists after him. He is considered to be a magnificent creator of beauty, which is a well-suited consideration.
Goffman defines ritual as follows: "I use the term "ritual" because this activity, however informal and secular, represents a way in which the individual must guard and design the symbolic implications of his acts while in the immediate presence of an object that has a special value for him" (Goffman 1956/1967, 57).
The art piece, by Eugene Carriere, I chose to look at first is The First Communion, due to its significant use of symbolism. Sybolism is often used to provoke emotion in a viewer, an example of how this is used in The First Communion is the inward eyes of the subject. This conjures up a mysterious and isolated atmosphere for the viewer, suggesting the idea of an inner world of thought. I believe that a piece of artwork with symbolic reasons behind its concept does contribute towards creating good art. Symbolism allows artwork to become a means of visual communication beyond what's obvious.
Gardner, Helen, and Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective. N.p., 2014. Print.
She refuses to show him love. “When I move away and hold the sheet against myself he, sensing what this means, refuses, adamant yet polite, to traffic in the currency of rejection.” (Lopez) She met this new guy and he kisses her hand. “You see, a new boy just a last month had raised my shy hand to his warm mouth and kissed the inside of my palm.” (Lopez) She does not really know what she wants. The kiss has her mind think about worth her really love her lover. In the end she says, “Why should he give up? (Lopez). She doesn’t know why he is still with her after she rejects his
Immediately, the narrator stereotypes the couple by saying “they looked unmistakably married” (1). The couple symbolizes a relationship. Because marriage is the deepest human relationship, Brush chose a married couple to underscore her message and strengthen the story. The husband’s words weaken their relationship. When the man rejects his wife’s gift with “punishing…quick, curt, and unkind” (19) words, he is being selfish. Selfishness is a matter of taking, just as love is a matter of giving. He has taken her emotional energy, and she is left “crying quietly and heartbrokenly” (21). Using unkind words, the husband drains his wife of emotional strength and damages their relationship.
This marked the beginning of his inspiration to form a personal, expressive, and religious stance on his art values and style. He has found his process and content that will be apparent in his future work.
We do tend to expect certain things when we enter a place of worship, or peruse an active ministry, and truthfully, when taking in Christian oriented art. There are a couple reoccurring emblems, symbols, well-worn themes, and subjects which have been deemed safe, coming under overuse, carrying the weight of a saltine in the impact it makes on people, including us. While intentions are almost always well meaning, these conventions appear to the secular as a genre of its own in culture and art, quite often ringing with an unsavory note of incompetence. That’s already an unpleasant attribution to a faith that has changed the world, having built the infrastructure of empathy that has survived ages and permeates the social development of our western culture. It speaks to a deeper issue within the Church itself, which is a woeful lack of inspiration.
The artwork that I picked out was by Edgar Degas Interior. It was created between 1868–1869 and can be found at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I picked this artwork because when I took Intro to Art in my freshmen year this artwork appealed to me because of its mysteriousness and agitation. When I looked at other works of arts by Degas I found this one very striking. There are no clear clues or answers to the questions that are raised when one looks at this work by Degas which makes it very unique.
Religious art helps people that are looking for security and hope. Today society is looking for peace and an anchor to hold onto. This religious art lifts the spirit and brings peace within through a beautiful way. It helps reassure people that there is a life after this one. One needs not fear the power of God but to understand his actions and the way one should live his or her life.