The painting Red Hot, created by Marsha Clements, is a realist painting of two roses. These two roses are purposed to represent the changes that occur when two people becoming more intimate with one another. As our relations with others grows stronger we reveal things that we don’t readily exhibit to the rest of the world. Clements does this through the use of contrasting colors and lines from her brush strokes that directs the viewers’ attention to the contrast.…
The two images I chose for the analysis paper are Martini, Simone and Lippo Memmi, Annunciation with Saints Ansanus and Margherita (1333) and Brunelleschi, Filippo, Dome of Florence Cathedral (1420-36). The reason I chose these are because they relate to the Catholic religion in different ways. The Annunciation with Saints Ansanus and Margherita was the beginning of the Catholic art during the Gothic time period while the Dome of Florence Cathedral was not only a masterpiece of artwork it was also a breakthrough for the construction during that time and for the rest of history.…
Kehinde Wiley is a famous artist known for his naturalistic portraits of African-Americans and for his unique representation of people living in the 21st century. One of the many works he did is known as Prince Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Elizabeth, which was made in the year 2013, and the medium used was oil. The size of the canvas is 72 x 60 inches and has a striking black frame that relates to paintings made years ago. In this painting you see an African-American man, standing in a position of power and security. This painting and others are part of a collection that the artist decided to call "The World Stage", where he traveled to different countries taking pictures of different people, which later he transferred to the canvas.…
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).…
Down for the Count is a heavy work that is used to depict the times of the Great Depression. Fletcher Martin was very distinct about what he wanted us to see and how he wanted us to see it. The subject matter is surrounded by supporting details such as the color, light, space, and also the size and scale.…
“O say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” To people like Francis Scott Key, the writer of “The Star-Spangled Banner”, the American flag is a symbol of men and women standing up for what they believed in, and even giving up their life for it. These people care greatly about the American flag being honored and respected, and I am too.…
(Sayre, p.20) The white woman in the painting is pledging her allegiance to the flag but in the same breath she is being depicted as a racist denying blacks their civil rights. It is also depicting the struggles that her community and she were facing while trying to gain equal rights from the majority of white Americans. In this oil painting she uses only three colors, black, white and red which are indicative to her other paintings in the series. She uses rectangles and squares to depict the flag, even the woman in the painting has an elongated rectangular appearance to her. The second, What is the Proper Way to Display the American Flag? is an exhibit by Dread Scott Tyler, a minority student at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibit is a 34 by 57 inch American flag on the floor underneath pictures of flag-draped coffins and South Koreans burning flags and holding signs that said "Yankee, go home son of a bitch". There is also a ledger where viewers can write their answers to the question "What is the proper way to display a U.S. flag?" Two problems with the setup of this exhibit where the flag draped on the floor and the placement of the ledger book.…
John Davis (16 September, 1936 – 17 October, 1999) was an Australian sculptor, renowned and celebrated as the pioneer of Environmental art, and as an Australian player in the modern art movement: Arte Povera. Arte Povera was an Italian artistic movement introduced in the 1960’s, a time of civil unrest, in which artists took to political radicalism, attacking the morale and value of the government and major industries, challenging whether art, as an expression of emotion and thought, could still fit and exist in our modern world.…
Andy Warhol founded the art movement called pop art, and his lifestyle and work both mocked and celebrated the world’s obsession with materiality and fame. On one side, his paintings of distorted everyday items and celebrity faces could be seen as a display for what he viewed as a culture consumed with money and being famous. On the other side, his focus on consumer goods and celebrities, and his own fame and fortune, suggest a life in celebration of the aspects of American culture that his work criticized.…
As a result of the years after the war the Flag needs to be banned. It symbolizes Racism, oppression, and the Division of the United States of America. It tells America’s enemies overseas that we are not a truly “United” Nation under God. And should only be represented in a museum. Where people can appreciate its value without all of the Anger attached to without it being displayed on a Capitol…
1. Examining a work of art in its historical, social, and political __________ enables you to better understand it.…
In Carolyn Dean’s “The Trouble with (the Term) Art” (2006), the author explores the significance of the word art itself and dives into the deeper meaning of not only what art is, but when a piece can be labeled as art. Carolyn Dean successfully accomplishes her goal of providing readers with knowledge about the consequences of identifying art, where such a notion did or did not occur. Although Dean is pretty opinionated throughout the article, she backs up all of her thoughts by providing ample amounts of evidence and research supporting her claim. Her argument is solid and I think she provides very salient points throughout her article; however, I found her use of language hard to follow for readers who do not have such a profound background in art history.…
What makes a piece of art art? Is it the creation itself or is it a combination of elements that make a piece a good piece of art. Artist use elements to add depth and meaning to the pieces they create. Artist such as Vincent Van Gogh, Sol LeWitt, Diego Velazquez, and Edward Hopper all had pieces that they used different forms to help capture the attention of the viewer and express their true meaning with the techniques they used in their portraits.…
Created in the age of McCarthyism, Jasper Johns’ “Flag” was the first and perhaps most popular version of his flag paintings. Johns is said to have first dreamed of the flag before painting it, but John’s painting was rich in symbolism as he liked it to the use of things the mind already knew. Done in 1954, when flag’s seemed to be everywhere in the news and as the McCarthy hearings were going on questioning the loyalty of citizens to their government, as symbolized by the flag were ending three days before Flag Day, or as President Dwight Eisenhower signed an amendment to the Constitution that added the phrasing “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. Some people say that Johns had a much more personal attachment to the flag, as he was a Korean War veteran that was named for Sergeant William Jasper, a Revolutionary War hero who was famous for raising the American flag during an important battle. As a result, Jasper Johns’ flag became not only a symbol for the nation and its internal issues, but also as a link to his past, with Johns painting more than 40 images of the flag.…
With all the political conflicts going on today, one issue that has arisen again recently is the controversy of flag burning. The people that burn the flag claim they are making a statement; however, what is that statement? Is it appropriate to burn the flag as a statement of political discord or is it a disrespectful action that should be illegal? Below I will draw out the thoughts and reasoning behind both stances that have become a major issue in the U.S. again in the past several years.…