Essays on Painting

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 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...

The early twentieth-century gave rise to a contemporary art movement that flourished throughout Europe. This era witnessed a variety of artistic styles intrinsic to the developmental changes that were simultaneously occurring in society. The beginning of the twentieth-century was marked by a period of extensive...

Developed in the early part of the twentieth century, Cubism introduced a reconstruction of space and the ideas of space being comprised of geometric and mathematical forms. As a result of artists no longer reflecting actual subjects and observations, it was common for people to...

Early Sunday Morning is famous art of Edward Hopper and is well known for its visual symbols. This painting was made in 1930 using oil on canvas to depict a typical Sunday morning in a marketplace of New York City. The original painting is currently...

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...

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...

Thesis Throughout the 1980s there was one particular artist that had the gift of translation. He was able to take art from the street and translate it into beautiful pieces in which could be understood in galleries. This artist was Jean-Michel Basquiat. He is most...

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 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...

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...

Richard Gott, GuardianEven though the Mexican born Octavio Paz Lozano (1914-1998) is celebrated as an anthropologist, essayist, professor, critic, and translator, but it is as a poet he enjoys a worldwide reputation and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990 for his...

“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 Arnolfini Portrait” by Jan van Eyck is a 1434 oil painting on oak panel. It a full length dual portrait, of the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges. It is one of...

Vincent Van Gogh was the son of a Dutch pastor, Theodorus Van Gogh. Vincent was born on 30 March 1853 at Zundert, a village in the south Netherlands. Art was a part of Vincent when he was growing up because several uncles in the family...

Jackson Pollock (Jackson Pollock, and Jackson Pollack, January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) is an influential American painter and abstract expressionist movement of the main forces. He is famous for his unique creation drip painting. In his life, he also enjoyed considerable fame and...

In the European history The Italian Renaissance began in 14th century and lasted until the 17th century. Renaissance means “rebirth”, because it was known as the cultural revival and was a huge change in the European history from medieval period to modernity. Before the Renaissance,...

The two works being compared in this writing assignment (Van Eyck’s Double Portrait, and Giotto’s Meeting of Joachim and Anna) are visually very different in several ways such as with their: setting, medium, techniques used, etc. Taking a more critical look at the two works...

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....

KIA Assignment Reaction Paper The first painting I found at the KIA was Autumn Sunset at Greenwood by Jasper Cropsey. It first caught my eye because of the large lake and its contrast to the land next to it. The river connects the foreground to...

In Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory, I see the landscape of a dark piece of land. As the dark land continues out to the edge of the island, it becomes a more sand colored terrain, or coastline, where its edge meets surrounding water. The...

The Camera degli Sposi (1465-1474) by Andrea Mantegna is a prime model of an artwork that attempts to defeat spatial constrictions through an illusion of depth. The work is an example of trompe-l’oeil painting, which employs realistic imagery to create optical illusions of continuing space...

The transition movement that took place between the 14th and 17th century in Italy is known as the Renaissance time or by definition “rebirth”. The philosophy that took place in the period is one of the humanism or the focus on the human being. One...

The night sky described by van Gogh in the Starry Night painting is overflowing with spinning mists, sparkling stars, and a brilliant bow moon. The setting is one that watchers can identify with and van Gogh’s twirling sky coordinates the watcher’s eye around the work...

The paintings I have chosen for my essay are Tree of Hope by Frida Kahlo and Campbell’s Soup Can by Andy Warhol. These are the paintings that really drew my interest as both artists seemed to be speaking to me with their works. These paintings...

The two main inspirations for my artwork are David Padworny and Joshua Miels. They have inspired me in their style and their application of paint techniques. These artists, along with my own development have allowed me to express my interpretation of the theme of migration....

Paul Nash s paintings delt with the Battle of Britain. Mainly from the point of view of the brave R.A.F. pilots, and what they may have seen during thier one on one engagements with the Luftwaffe. Nash also did paintings of the areal battle s...

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,...

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...

‘Black Iris’, oil on canvas, 36 x 29 7/8 inches, 1926, The picture ‘Black Iris’ which can be called Black Iris III, is an oil painting in 1962 by artist Georgia O’Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico). The size dimensions of...