Essays on Famous Artists

The Norton Simon Museum presents its visitors to the exhibition of different mediums and styles used to execute the following three artworks. All artworks are empowered to tell a story and send a message to its viewers. For decades, artists have used various techniques such...

For this catechism I will be referring to two works formed by Edgar degas and Edouard Manet, these works encompass; Manet’s Olympia and Degas’ The Absinthe Drinker (L’Absinthe). These works are significant in view of the fact that they are the artists most famous so...

Edgar Degas was a French artist who was regarded as one of the founders of impressionism, although he called himself a realist. Degas started his artistic career as a historical painter, with having academic training and studied classical art, but in his thirties, he decided...

Edgar Degas ‘Blue Dancers’ pherap ballerinas were the preferred subjects. He was once fascinated by means of their artwork and the one-of-a-kind expression they carried out with the human form. Degas typically painted dancers backstage. His reason was once to seize their unique poses in...

During the 18th century, many countries where going through revolutions in their cultures and art; France being one of the main countries. At the start of the 18th century, many of artists did paintings of the lavish lifestyles of the French elite. But, as time...

The man at the Crossroads was destroyed and never publicly seen, 10 months later he recreated the painting and renamed it Man, Controller of the Universe and is one of Diego Rivera’s most infamous controversial pieces of art. Man at the Crossroads was originally created...

Throughout the centuries, animals have appeared in works of art. Cultural beliefs are the main principles and values upon which an entire community exists. This is made up of several parts: traditions, which rituals; values, which are philosophies; and culture, which is all of a...

By exploring similarities and differences between Andy Warhol (Pop Art) and Jeff Koons (Neo Pop Art) works and ideas, my objective is to conclude that Pop Art past and present is more than a mere celebration of consumer and popular culture, but also an effective...

The postmodernism frame is a new frame of artwork that has been introduced into the art culture. It’s a form of experimental contemporary art movement, this form of art breaks the boundaries and challenges the audience’s perception. It involves the use if words or images...

The series Luxury & Degradation, 1986 feature oil inks on canvas prints of alcoholic beverage advertisements. In all these there is the presence of leisure time, sexual conquest, excess, wealth or suggestion of wealth.  The Luxury & Degradation works most resemble Jeff Koons‟ friends‟ work...

Paintings that come from the world of art have come in many different forms including: Expressionism, Rembrandt, Neoclassical, Romanticism, etc. Yet, none are as unique, and in some ways underappreciated, in their ways of expressing their message as Chicano Art. Chicano art is an art...

Since the early 1980s. Jeff Koon’s has become a magnetic artistic persona open for critical and public opinion. In his adept deployment of the internal promotional mechanisms of what Horkhiemer and Adorno call ‘the culture industry’ to further mass self-promote his artistic persona, Koon’s has...

“Trumpet” by Jean Michel Basquiat is an artwork that shows raw graphic fusions of text, scribbles and cultural expressions. The work shows an alien type creature playing a trumpet with Basquiat signature crown on top of the creature’s head. “Trumpet” was painted on canvas using...

Jean-Michel Basquiat worked in New York and was one of the prominent painters of the 1980s. Basquiat responded to the culture of his time using image and text in his work. During the 1980’s, the new American popular culture art movement of graffiti began. Graffiti...

Intro Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring both used distinctive language and techniques for visual effect to communicate ideas while developing connections between art and society in their practices, as they create and show how society is through their many different artworks. Haring and Basquiat would...

The Breakfast Club The movie The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes in 1985, shows a group of five adolescents who are going through high school. These adolescents face difficulties that place them into Saturday detention. Each high school student is from a different walk...

Pablo Picasso has made a change in history with his meaningful paintings. He was born on October 25, 1881, and learned about art at an early age. He became a painter, sculptor, printmaker, stage designer, ceramicist, playwright and poet, and spent a lot of his...

The piece of artwork that has influenced me and my work personally the most was “The Weeping Woman” by Pablo Picasso. Picasso has been someone I’ve studied throughout my lifetime and has been a huge influence to many. There are many different styles and techniques...

Some of the most appealing stories to read are those of magical realism. It adds a fantastical sense, to an otherwise regular story. It gives the story that flare needed to put it aside from others. It also can provide a deeper meaning, and the...