Essays on Famous Artists

“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...

In the modern art time that converges into today, there were a great deal of similitudes and contrasts between gems. You could take a gander at two totally unique pieces and make sense of a shared motivation. In like manner, with regards to The Joy...

Just as Impressionism played a key role in Modernism, another revolutionary art movement is Cubism. About 30 years after the first Modernist movement Impressionism begun, Cubism was slowly replacing it. “Since the Renaissance almost all paintings had obeyed a convention”, Pablo Picasso ditched this convention...

Artists have shocked and confronted audiences in pursuit of the ‘avant-garde’ in art movements such as Realism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism. Realists, abandoning traditional themes and practices; Cubists and their subject matter, positioning, composition, and primitivism; and Abstract Expressionists, abandoning conventional tools and methods of...

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853. He was born in Zundert, Netherlands and was the oldest of six siblings, he had two brothers and three sisters. His mother was Anna Carbentus, an amateur artist who drew flowers and plants. His father,...

Vincent Van Gogh was a very talented artist but was not appreciated for his talents when he was alive. He was born on March 30, 1853. He had many jobs that had inspired him to become an artist. Even though he only sold one painting...

Vincent Willem Van Gogh was born to Theodorus Van Gogh and Anna Carbentus on March 30th,1853, in the Netherland town of Zundert. He was the oldest of 5 younger siblings, one of whom was Theo Van Gogh. Despite being a successful student and earning high...

Vincent van Gogh’s art work is considered to be some of the best in the world, but his art work was not appreciated in his time. How did this dramatic change happen? Furthermore, what led Van Gogh to be the artist and person that he...

Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most famous and influential artists of all time; however, he spent hard times as a poor and obscure artist during his lifetime. The fact that Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting during his brief life supports the...

Frida Kahlo is Mexico’s most well-known, notorious craftsman. From her monobrow to her bloom decorated hairdos, her aesthetics gathered nearly as much intrigued as her craftsmanship that was overwhelmed by self-portraiture; of her assessed 140 works of art, 55 are self-portraits. Whereas numerous considered her...

Frida Kahlo is one of the most famous female artists in the world. She is considered by many to be one of Mexico’s best artists. Frida was a painter who is known for drawing inspiration from elements of Mexican culture. She is celebrated for her...

Frida Kahlo, 1907 – 1954, is Mexico’s best-known figure; an acclaimed artist, an activist, a feminist, a bisexual and disabled person who dealt with tremendous physical pain and personal turmoil in her life. In dealing with that she was able to uniquely transmute all that...

Freedom is to self-govern. Freedom is about being on your own to not have anyone looking over you consistently making sure you do the right thing and not the wrong concept, but does freedom exist? Freedom is a broad statement that we hold close to...