The painting tells the story of Beauty and the Beast in one image. It reminds me that love comes in all shapes and sizes and that you shouldn’t judge a person by their appearances. Not everyone is who you think they are at first glance. I love…
One such dark painting is “Famine Five”, one of the many paintings Howson produced based on war. It was created in 2009 and is oil on canvas. The figure is a drained looking woman, painted from the chest upwards. This piece is focused on war; Howson has managed to convey the effects of war, by exaggerating the expression on the woman’s face. She looks starved, depressed and tired looking. This is shown through the deep wrinkles in her face and how big and drooping her eyes are. The palette used in this painting is all dark, earthy oranges and a deep blue is used for the background. This contrast between the orange and blue helps the woman stand out from the deep, dull blue sky in the background, making her have an almost orange glow to her skin. The texture Howson has created on the woman is very rough, almost like her features have been scratched. This effect has been created by using a dry paint brush, and what looks like scraping the paint off. This is to show us that she is dirty as you can see her skin has black marks and scuffs all over it. The woman’s face is the focal point,…
In A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, the audience can see how insecure Dave is about having to take the role of a parent for his little brother, Toph. Throughout the book Dave is constantly thinking about how everyone thinks that Dave shouldn’t be taking care of Christopher or he is an unfit parent. Dave wants to give the very best to Toph but most of the time that isn’t possible. For example, when they were looking for houses people were rejecting them saying the two weren’t the best fit or didn’t think they could pay. One landlord who was sceptical was unsure about Dave’s lack of job and their age. Dave responded “We can pay. We have money. We could pay the year’s rent all at once if you want” (76., which made the…
The piece that spoke to me most was “Duck, Duck, Noose” by Gary Simmons. The artist draws parallels to both the randomness of the acts of violence targeted at African Americans by members of the Ku Klux Klan from post-Civil War Construction through present, as well as pointing out racism is a cultural trait learned in early childhood. One of the most valuable social rights we have is the right to feel safe from violence whether it is in our home or walking down the street. When I look at this piece of art it brings to mind the full history of African-American culture. The heritage of these people began, not as voluntary citizens looking for a new land, but rather as victims of violence having been kidnapped from their homes and forced into…
About a month ago, I made a visit to the San Antonio Museum of Art. The museum offered a huge array of pieces and exhibits. After spending a fun filled two hours combing through the museum’s awesome collections (Btw, I enjoyed the amulets and relics in the glass exhibits tremendously!), there were three pieces which made quite an impression on me. I left thinking how do I choose from the best of three—each having the power to intrigue or move me in some way. I felt a definite connection with each of the pieces. The piece I ended up choosing was on the 4th floor in the European Section. It was a painting by Agustin Esteve entitled Four Children. It is oil on canvas, 97 inches by 23 inches, and was painted in the late 18th century. When I first came by this painting, I tried to avoid reading the label on it, so that I could try and understand the piece before I allowed someone else to inform my perspective. I remember feeling a sense of mysticism to it when I first seen it. The painting depicts four children in a dark woody area. There appears to be a fog behind them. The child in the middle is dressed in all black with a bird in his hand. The piece seemed to evoke fear in me at first ( I am still not sure why!) Perhaps it was the colors and tones which helped to create that unsettling feeling(dramatic effect). Right off, I noticed the lines used were soft and smooth, like Renoir employs in his paintings/portraits. The emphasis was on the children in the center of the picture. My first impression was that the kids were lost somewhere and very afraid, but that idea did not mesh well with me because one the boys seemed to cling to him, while the other stared off into the distance with no emotion in his eyes, and he seemed to be leading the boy away with his eyes. Off to the far right is a young girl dressed in her Sunday best, with a flower and black pendant in her left hand and a ribbon on her chest.…
The paintings “The Lifeline” by Winslow Homer and “Prairie on Fire” by Charles Deas are two paintings that really struck out to me as similar. I think Homer’s painting, “The Lifeline”, is a very dramatic painting because of how the lady is just laying there passed out while this brave man is swinging across dangerous waves and rocks to get them to safety. Its very different from looking at in class because you can actually see the texture and brush strokes the artist used. When standing in front of a painting, it almost feels like your there watching this happen. You can see all the different details from the small brush strokes to the large ones, and the effect of light almost makes them look like they are glistening. I selected Charles Deas painting to compare to Homer’s painting because in both paintings a woman is passed out and is…
While all pieces of art have a purpose that represents the essence of the time period, some hold a larger grasp in the majority of the lives of others. For example, the catastrophic events that unraveled in the 1920’s have…
Opposingly, he uses the following strong, empathetic phrases “...clinging to unrealistic hope...”, “...harboring some unrealistic religious beliefs…” and :...end the useless charade…”. Clearly, Keith shows a bias towards patients still on life support, or receiving treatment for their illness; it’s projected in his writing. He wants “...to help the families see reality…” about the treatment benefits.Striking hard he hints that this puts strain on other families.…
The first painting I came across that I instantly feel in love with was Yves Tanguy’s Neither Legends nor Figures 1930 oil on canvas. The teal blues and parts of grey drew me in, the unique shapes and floating objects made me wonder what she was trying to capture but overall it was the blues of the sky that had me intrigued.…
Carissa Barbo, I thought that your example for fine art was a brilliant choice. This is an image that definitely portrays what the artist was feeling. I feel that this picture truly meets…
As I walked around with a copy of this piece in my school bag for a week or so, I often thought about what I could possibly say about this painting/artist. Also during this time, I shared this painting with a couple of people, and asked them what they thought of the piece without telling them what it depicted. One individual stated, “They look sad about something.” Another individual stated, “The people appeared shame for some reason.” Then I informed them what the piece was and they wanted to look at it again, they were quite impressed with the work after they realized what it was about.…
"Offering Truth" was painted by Kendra Runnells. This painting has a lot of life lessons and meaning. The colors in the painting give off a sad and dark feel, but one can see another person giving instead of receiving and it also shows that it is sometimes better to stand alone than to go along with the crowd.…
The scream painting by Edvard Munch is one of the most known pieces of artworks. In the scream we can see a genderless person with a horrified face, and with his mouth wide open, and with his hands on the sides of his face. The artist uses intense colors. Such as, red, orange, dark blue, brown, and black. The figure in the painting seems to me that he is uncertain and scared of something, and he has the look of terror, or fear. The scream it is thought of as the first expressionist painting. The Web Museum (2002) defines expressionist as a “Movement in fine arts that emphasized the expression of inner experience rather than solely realistic portrayal, seeking to depict not objective reality, but the subjective emotions and responses than objects and events arouse in the artist,” also in this painting you can see the sunset, and a sea, or river. Munch wrote an impressive and developer diary in 1892 which is associate with the creation of the scream. “I was walking around the road with two friends. The sun was setting I felt a breath of melancholy-suddenly the sky turned blood red. I stopped, looking out across the flaming clouds that hug like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and town. My friends walked on-I stood there, trembling with fear. And, I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through nature”(Munch 1892). Edvard Munch suffered from depression and his illness was also his source of inspiration. “My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness”, he once wrote. Nowadays the painting of the scream is the most known of our time. “Edvard Munch is one of the twentieth century´s greatest printmakers, and his work particularly The Scream and Madonna-have made their way into the popular culture of our times”. (www.yale.edu, 2002). I think Edvard´s sunset is completely different from the idea that we have of a sunset. “What would otherwise be a beautiful sunset it transformed into an expression of pure dread, of…
It’s amazing how many ways one person can express themselves. It’s equally amazing when that expression is put into a form of art. Art truly changes the world around us and can open our minds to how we view things, it might also make us feel some type of emotion or way about a subject. Art can be inspiring and beautiful, but just as much depressing and dark, it’s always interesting to see both elements in one piece of art. One art that expresses dark elements is “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, although most wouldn’t call “The Scream” beautiful, the “Nymphs and Satyr” by Adolphe Bouguereau is a stunning art piece that uniquely shows an element of dark beauty. Whereas “The Scream” and “Nymphs and Satyr” are similar as they are from the 19th century…
Although one of our most common emotions we have as humans is sadness, it is also the…