Essays on Painting

High and Low art: where do we place comics? The place that comics have in the art hierarchy had always shadowed the potential that this medium can achieve. In a world where Andy Warhol created screen prints of Campbell’s Soup cans, something that immediately contradicts...

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American Neo-Expressionist painter of Puerto Rican and Haitian decent. Neo-expressionism is a style of postmodern sculptures and paintings that was extremely popular in the 1970’s. Basquiat was born December 22, 1960, and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Except for a brief...

John Singer Sargent’s piece Rio di Santa Maria Formosa, was a near and dear painting he had created based off his many trips to Venice. Starting these trips in the 1880’s, he frequently painted watercolor scenery, often in a gondola. This painting in particular was...

Salvador Dali was known for his surrealist artworks. The term surrealism first appeared in the writings of french poet Guillame Apollinaire who used it in 1917. It is known that surrealism is irrational, and hallucinatory. It positioned itself not from escape from life but as...

Epic Poem of Malaya is painted during the decolonisation period whereby the “Malayan culture” was developing to gain independence from the colonial rule. To my understanding of Chua, his conviction as an artist to paint realistically is because he believes that art should reflect life...

The Beauty behind Painting Visual analysis is an important aspect of art history. Its main purpose is to help the viewer understand and recognize the artist’s frame work by observing and analyzing different parts of the image, which should give them the basic understanding what...

W. H. Auden’s poem, ”Musée de Beaux Arts” centers around human suffering by the speaker observing the painting. Auden utilizes this work of art to show how egocentric people on the world had become. The painting “Landscape with the Fall of the Icarus” was painted...

Pierre Auguste-Cot’s Springtime (otherwise known as Le Printemps) is a gorgeous painting depicting young love. The scene takes place with the pair situated on a swing, held tight by substantial ropes suspended from concealed branches. The young man is shown to be holding firmly to...

The painting is based off the traditional catholic belief that the Virgin Mary was physically crowned the “Queen of Heaven” by her son, Jesus after her assumption, a moment which was popularly painted in 14th century Florence. Yet Tintoretto’s depiction of the coronation, in the...

For this review I will be talking about the work of art by Wassily Kandinsky called Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle). This work of art would be considered an abstract piece. The title “Improvisation” alludes to a progression of works that Kandinsky painted somewhere in the...

The painting Odalisque with a Slave by Ingres painted in 1839, is rendered with the utmost attention paid to details, nothing is spared from Ingres’s intensive bestowal of adornment. This intentional decision and along with the other aspects of the painting convey an idealized, almost...

For the visual description, I decided to write about the oil painting on panel attributed to Master of the Kress Epiphany and related to Dutch art, which is a 1988 gift of Joey and Toby Tanenbaum, in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario....

What factors to look for when hiring a commercial Painter It is important to understand that commercial activity differs from a domestic one and when you are searching for a Painter in Balgowlah, you need to spend some time to find the right option that...

Vincent Van Gogh is an extraordinary artist, from the Impressionist period, he is best known for his paintings in the 1880’s and 90’s. Van Gogh was famous for creating emotions in his works, and had the ability to make someone feel something with just one...

This is a formal analysis of Emily Carr’s painting, The Indian Church. It was completed in the year 1929, on a 108.6 x 68.9 cm canvas with oil paint. The dimensions of this painting, as well as the tree trunks and the chapel, draw the...

The Highly decorative professional way of expressing something which can be understood by large group of people without specific knowledge is an art. Through the art civilization, happiness, sadness can be expressed. Social work is an academic discipline and profession which is concerned with the...

Located in the University at Buffalo Anderson Art Gallery lies a sculpture made out of chandeliers. The piece is titled Fathom and was made in 2017 by Kambui Olujimi. The materials used for the displayed sculpture consists of chandeliers, rubber inner tubes, rope, and wooden...

At first glance, the poem, “I Am Canadian” written by Glen Hunt, is a narrative by a proud Canadian named Joe, who tries to disprove some of the preconceived notions about Canada. Used in a Molson’s Canadian Beer commercial, this poem quickly captured the hearts...

The artwork “Glenn” (1984) By Jean-Michel Basquiat is an acrylic, oilstick painting with a collage on canvas. In this painting, Basquiat coveys his exploration of the self-identity through experience of black human beings. The drawing is busy with many different pieces to unpack and analyze,...

Egon Schiele Every generation has their punks. Be they musicians, writers, or artists, those individuals ahead of their times – while infamous during their lives – create legacies that last years after their deaths. Austrian painter Egon Schiele is certainly one of these controversial and...

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The Review of White Rabbit’s latest exhibition – the reshaped Chinese landscapes of the 21st Century Jiayi Chen z5194640 In ancient China, Chinese artists retired deep into the mountains and indulged amidst the natural landscapes with misty-wreathed mountains and peak, tumbling waterfalls, and gurgling streams....

“The most interesting thing about artists, is how they live”, quoted by a renowned French artist himself, Marcel Duchamp, whom had made works that of the representation of the unusual and in-understandable. You see artists, are somewhat similar to scientists. They are undermined geniuses whom...

The human condition is the effect something has on a person that effects them for a short or long period of time. The human condition is something that effects someone by a physical or mental problem that has had an impact on that person’s life....

Human beings attempt to gain insights into something new and unfamiliar by making comparisons with already known concepts. The book “Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History” offers thoughts about the Chinese art through the lens of Western art. Such an approach damages both the...

The painting The Bay of Marseilles, Seen from L’Estaque (1885), by Paul Cezanne is displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago Illinois. This two dimensional, oil on canvas is measured at 80. 2 X 100. 6cm. It is apart of a series of paintings that...

Graffiti is defined as writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface on a public place. Its dictionary definition uses the word illicit which means that it is not permitted or is unlawful. This singular word conditions the general...

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso also known as Pablo Picasso was a Spanish sculptor, ceramicist, and painter born in Málaga, Spain, on October 25, 1881. He was...

While on a visit to the Honolulu Museum of art, out of the over 50,000 pieces being displayed, one piece of artwork that was the most interesting was a painting called Kaaterskill Falls on the Catskill Mountains, Taken from Under the Cavern, oil on canvas,...

The name of the museum that I decided to visit is The Ringling Museum of Art. The location of this museum is in Sarasota, Florida and the date of my visit was October 12th, 2019 at 12:00 pm. My visit to this beautiful museum was...