Essays on Art

Las Dos Fridas, which in English translates to The Two Fridas, was painted by the well-known, Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. The oil painting displays two versions of Frida, her Mexican background and white background, holding hands and connected by a vein. Still to this day,...

The art piece that I chose was 4.9.18b (p. 676) Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas. This art piece was made by Frida Kahlo herself in 1939. The dimensions are 5’8” X 5’8”, the medium is an Oil on canvas. You can find this wonderful piece...

“Los Das Kahlo” is painted within the year 1939 in oil on canvas with dimensions 173 x 173 cm, it’s located in the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico. The first aspect we see is a double self-portrait, wherein the two Fridas are sitting on...

The artist Salvador Dali has created many paintings with visual and style similarities. He also seems to put his own emotions and feeling into his paintings. In two of his paintings, The Anthropomorphic Cabinet as well as The Burning Giraffe, cabinets are both used to...

“I wet my bed till I was eight for the sheer fun of it. I was the absolute monarch of the house. Nothing was good enough for me. My father and mother worshiped me.” Dali’s life was a mystery that attracted controversy and the interest...

Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres Spain. His full name is Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech. From an early age, he was encouraged to practice his art and eventually went to study at an academy in Madrid. His father, Salvador...

The great artist Salvador Dali once said, “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” He surely put this quote into practice when he created what some consider to be his greatest work, and what many consider...

The Mona Lisa is a painting of a portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci. It is considered high art as it is a part of the fine arts and is highly valued which were exposed mostly to the upper classmen and the elites. Mona was a...

Created between 1504 and 1505, Mona Lisa is a portrait of the famous Italian Renaissance painter Leonardo Da Vinci. It represents the highest artistic achievement of Da Vinci, successfully shaping the image of a woman of the urban bourgeoisie during the rise of capitalism. In...

The Portrait of Lisa Gheradini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is an oil painting. Leonardo da Vinci uses sfumato and composition arrangement while painting the Mona Lisa. One technique, Da Vinci used in his artwork was focus and blur. Shadow is used at the...

In our world, we had a lot of famous artists. Whenever people talk about painting one of the few paintings comes to their mind is the Mona Lisa or the Screaming. The painting I am going to discuss in my assignment is Mona Lisa. The...

On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, anchored among eight other frescoes, sits one particularly celebrated piece of art, pictorial guide to the Gospel message. This fourth panel tells the tale of the creation of Adam, a decisive event in the book of Genesis that...

Twenty-six-year-old, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, or more commonly known as just, Michelangelo, was an Italian renaissance artist from Jerusalem. One of his most famous works was his sculpture, “David” which stands 17 feet tall, is made from marble and is of a biblical hero,...

Michelangelo was an extremely famous artist for his time that created revolutionary works of art that are still influential today. Most of Michelangelo’s pieces that are discussed are his later works, such as the Risen Christ or the Campidoglio. However, one extremely influential earlier piece...

The Renaissance period in art history is marked by the revitalization of Classical approaches to rationalizing one’s surroundings and gaining an understanding of the world through observations of nature and the laws that define it. Artists during this time shifted from lifeless, symbolic pieces to...

This paper will be comparing and contrasting Jackson Pollock’s Full Fathom Five created in 1947 and Jasper Johns’ Flag created 1954-55 (dated 1954 on the reverse). Full Fathom Five is a prime example from the Abstract Expressionist period and Flag is a work that embodies...

WWII – the time of the omnipresent crisis- political and domestic. A crisis is a necessary period of the evolutionary process and the development of new ideas, both for the whole world and its spheres. In our case, it means art and culture. Art needed...

White light from the sun is a mixture of colors. Each of the colors has a different frequency. When white light is scattered out, there are the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. The higher frequency colors are cooler, indigo...

The literary analysis I’m writing over is “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston. She is an African American Modernist writer who conveyed a surprisingly positive, opportunistic, and realistic outlook on what it was like for her to live through racism....