What first catches the viewer 's eyes are the vivid colors used in the painting. Ultimately what jumps out the most is the man on the right 's red robe. The artist intended this for a reason, discussed later. The room where the men are standing is front lit. Also the atmosphere is not hazy. There is no hint of sffumato. It is very much unlike the Romantic works produced earlier in the century. Rather the edges of the figures and of other objects in the picture plane are clearly defined. The artist "renders every object in the painting with meticulous clarity" (Smith 1). To see this work in person is really quite impressive. The painter has achieved a great sense of depth in the painting, as well as a strikingly realistic quality. The picture taken for this paper from the Albright-Knox 's web page simply does not do this work justice. One 's experience of standing in front of this painting is that of awe. The artist has depicted everything in the scene so realistically, and yet has made it look better than it probably did in real life. Everything in the painting has a rich, glowing quality about it.…
As the narrator remembers past scenes, he writes, “Brushstrokes flash, a red bird’s/wings cutting across my stare” (22-23). The author recalls memories from the battles, and he retells them as if they are a beautiful piece of art, although the reality is brutal. By envisioning traumatic scenes in a different light, the narrator infers that even the darkest scenes can be viewed with warm energy. When the persona glances into the reflective wall, he explains, “My clouded reflection eyes me/like a bird of prey, the profile of the night/slanted against the morning” (6-8). The author compares night and morning, which puts light against darkness. Although the narrator came with sorrow for all of the lives lost in the Vietnam War, he still sees the hopeful aspect among the grief. No matter what the situation is, hope is always present within one’s darkest…
Figure 3: News, 1991, Jan Senbergs I was also attracted to another painting, News (1991) by Jan Senbergs (see Figure 3). Due to its large size and appealing colour pallet of blue and browns, this piece at first, appeared quite aesthetically attractive. However, as I viewed the work longer and read into the piece, I saw the not so pleasant, surreal mechanical forms and the harsh brushstrokes that were created by the textured and expressively applied paint. These elements created a feeling of discomfort within me. This artwork was supposedly painted in response to the Gulf War of 1990-1991, where Iraq invaded Kuwait (Australian War Memorial, 2017).…
One of the major reasons I was very interested in this painting was the excellent use of colors. William uses these colors to show movement and to depict a sense of realism to his viewers. He uses a combination of warm, bright and dull colors to provide beauty to the painting. It is a realistic painting in which we can see realistic objects like the clouds, the grass, the earth, sand, mud, little stones/rocks, shrubs, water and a whole lot. Looking at this painting at a glance, I thought it was a photograph; that is how realistic it is. William uses colors in little…
If time is taken to listen to the piece repeatedly, it becomes clearer that the tone is not dull but soothing and nourishing to the soul. The piece was written not for the common individuals of the time but the musically elite. It is a complex piece with great depth.…
Structure shows the courage in both the poem and the painting. The poem consists of fourteen lines and has the rhyme scheme of AABB. Also, it is a sonnet that contains both alliteration and onomatopoeia. The painting, is a painting and contains triangular pattern. The painting also contains contrast between light and dark.…
This paper has been far more difficult to research than I thought it would be. Unfortunately, photographers are not always given the full credit they desrve for their work and therefore, it is impossible to find the names of the artists of some of my favorite photographs. Instead, I decided to just look up popular photographers in the fashion industry in hopes of having easier access to information. Despite the fact that I now had the names of some of the most world famous fashion photographers, finding information on them is a whole other story in and of itself. As I am beginning to realize, the saying among the photography department is true- if you are not Annie Leibovitz, you will not be known until you are dead. For example, one of my favorite photographers is Diane Arbus. She had compiled vast amounts of work throughout her career. Unfortunately, all of her works were found in a locker after her suicide and then she was seen as an artist. To summarize what I am saying is that the only famous photographers are dead ones and all the successful ones are barely known. So in order for this research paper to even have the possibility of making it it to four pages, I am going to have to choose the cliché (yet greatly talented) photographer, Annie Leibovitz.…
Compare and contrast the work of THREE artists who have explored the genre of portraiture.…
I personally like this work of art. It is very pretty and the colors in it are very bold. The blossoming plum trees remind me of spring because they are blooming in this print. Overall I think this work of art is successful because it is intriguing and makes you think about what is going on in…
Another one of my favourite pieces is ‘Girl with ribbon’ I find it portrays a strong sense of emotion to viewers, like many of his other pieces it only tells a snippet of the story and the rest is left to the viewers imagination. This is the aspect that I love the most, each of his pictures are overly dramatic with sometimes a speech bubble to give you an idea of the story behind the painting, it really makes the viewer think about the piece and let their imagination run wild and decipher meanings for themselves. This is what I am planning on achieving through my…
An important part of Kandinsky’s life was spent in Odessa a cosmopolitan city populated by mainly Western Europeans and other ethnic groups. At an early age, he expressed an uncommon sensitivity towards sound, word and colors – in other words, the arts. His father encouraged what he perceived as a gift and pushed him into drawing and music lessons.…
The themes of isolation, hopelessness and insanity are heightened greatly through the use of imagery and allusions. As the opening of the poem originates at midnight ‘the gloomiest’ time of the night with the only source of light irradiating from the moon, the only things can be seen through the moonlight indicating the importance of the moon. In a traditional sense, the moon was seen to represent the womanly grace associated with physic, intuitive and mysteriousness yet also in a way presenting a dark nature welded in a realm between the conscious and the unconscious. The fragile wordings embody the compassionate feats of the feminine and motherly side of the moon as she tenderly ‘smooths the hair of the grass.’ However there is a radical change in tone as ‘A washed-out smallpox cracks her face.’ As this line is ambiguous as to whether the persona was referring to the moon or a woman’s facial features or perhaps both. However in the artwork, a depiction of a crescent moon illuminates to a different notion of the beginning of a renewal cyclic change.…
There are his “pink rubber gloves” and “dinner dishes” that reflect his action at the moment. There is “the window above the sink,” the sun, the sparrows, and the branches. He also ingeniously describes the droplets. “They sway, changing directions constantly – like a school of playful fish.” There is also the sheer curtain leading to another world. Al Zolynas makes the short moment of washing dishes become more vivid. Everything surroundings has their own action, their own moments. Moreover, the way of looking out the window reminds me a lot about meditation, when we try to feel the surroundings using our six senses, when we have an insight into nature and when we can enjoy every single thing around us. The great things about the poem are not the actions and the scene themselves, but the author’s imagination that inspires the…
Omar Hassan’s Night (2015) is a painting from his series titled Injections. This series speaks about Hassan’s upbringing as an Italian-Egyptian artist. Night is a painting that consists of spray-painted dots. The dots in colour represent the essence and purpose of the work while the black dots compose the background. The abstract nature of the background, as well as others in the series, has been inspired by Arabic art. In contrast to this, the frame surrounding the canvas, which also forms part of the work, references the old master frames from Renaissance Italy. The frame is very much integral to the work to the extent of which the imagery on the canvas continues onto the frame. These works present a true fusion between…
The use of distinctively visual features has had a positive effect on my appreciation of peter goldsworthys maestro & Vincent van goghs starry starry night . this has been done through distinctively visual features such as descriptive and emotive language in maestro and the use of colour, shading, lighting and placement in starry starry night.…