Essays About Visual Arts
This article is about the Society of Animal Artists that was first formed in the 1960’s and how large the society is today. Being a part of the Society of Animal Artists is comparable to being a member of Who’s Who of the world’s top wildlife artists. Patricia Allen Bott was the founder of the…
The marble sculpture shows a complete lighthearted scene between the three figures of Greek mythology as the details of Aphrodite’s hair, Pan’s furry legs and rough horns, and the anatomy of each figures are accurately rendered. The proportion of each figure is carefully done as the artist made sure that each figure contains their most…
Study the above painting, Marizy Sainte-Genevieve, carefully. Based on your analysis, answer the following questions. Write your answers in the boxes provided below the questions. 1. What types of lines has the artist used in the painting? The artist used rough brush strokes to create organic shapes. 2. What are the positive shapes in the…
In the painting of Mona Lisa shows an ordinary women looking directly at you with her hands crossed and a tiny smile. From what I read about this portrait in these times the 1400’s to 1500’s women don’t normally look directly at you and the artist would normally cut off the women’s body to show…
Gaspard Monge was very important as he made an amazing discovery towards the end of the 18th century, of Descriptive geometry, where 3d objects can be projected in 2d plains using mathematics. Durand then translated the descriptive geometry into architecture. This was an important discovery as this had always been a problem for architects, trying…
Afghanistan has been the state that has inspired the traveller, adventurers and authors for several centuries. The state one time named the bosom of Asia has closeness to Indian subcontinent, cardinal Asia, and Middle East has influenced the art and it has something from each faith. Afghanistan has been around for thousand old ages. Each…
Neoclassicism Neoclassicism ( began after 1750 ) was a resurgence of Greek and Roman art ; a direct reaction to the inordinateness of Baroque and Rococo manners. During the American and Gallic Revolutions, the political ambiance began to tilt towards an Age of Reason and Enlightenment. With esteem for classical Roman and Greek art renewed…
Religion is the belief in the being of a supreme divinity and the corporate signifiers of worship that accompany the belief. Most believe the divinity or divinities of their faith are responsible for the creative activity of the existence and everything in it including humanity. Deities have been represented in many ways, some faiths believe…
In this essay, I am traveling to analyze and discourse the two exposure and sculptured statues of Fire combatants raising the flag over land nothing on 9/11/01. There will be a critical treatment and analyses on the two images in relation to the mythic significance and picture taking ‘s evidentiary power. I am besides traveling…
It is interesting to observe that people who are non inclined with a reverent passion for the humanistic disciplines would merely believe of it in superficial footings ( Goodyear, 1897 ) . They merely consider humanistic disciplines as something munificent, interesting, and delighting to the oculus. They believe that art pieces ( such as pictures,…
It is difficult to understand how the early people could paint on the cave ceiling, and the significance of the cave picture. The outgrowth of the cave picture has existed from the Old Stone Age until the early century A.D. ; moreover, there are 1000s of caves found by archeologists in different topographic points around…
Indian picture is one of the oldest humanistic disciplines in the universe from about the 3rd millenary BC to show period. The society the Indian picture reproduce peculiar spiritual, political and cultural developments. Indian art has its alone name in the history of humanistic disciplines. Indian art which has been challenged its phase from down…
One of the grounds Frida becoirfe an of import creative person for me was because she used art to brightly show her life Wrof letdown and hurting. Fridas calling started a twosome of old ages after she had a bus accident in which she suffered serious injures to her leg and pelvic girdle. The accident…
The following able article is to be found in the Appendix to the Third Report of the Commissioners on the Fine Arts, to the British Paliament in 1844. It was written by the distinguished Secretary of the Commission, and has been recently published in England, together with other essays by the same author, in a…
‘A good painter’, says Leonardo da Vinci, ‘is to paint two main things, namely man and the workings of man’s mind. The first is easy, the second difficult’. As portraiture came into its own during the Renaissance, it became accepted that a good likeness alone does not make a portrait. The able painter must convey,…
The choice of Mr. Rose as author of this volume of “The World’s Leaders” was peculiarly appropriate. His easy style, his first-hand acquaintance with masterpieces of European paint ing, the vogue of his Renaissance Masters (first edition 1898), and his lifelong devotion to renaissance and post-renaissance art in all its forms mark him out as…
The story that the Mona Lisa has been stolen from the Louvre and a copy substituted in its place, is one of the most sensational which, so far as art matters are concerned, has ever made its way into print. If the Mona Lisa had been cut from its frame, and the astounded attendants at…
AST autumn an interesting collection of Early Italian Paintings was lent by Mrs. L. F. Holden, of Ohio, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After be ing shown for some time as a special ex hibit the collection has been distributed, the several paintings being placed accord ing to their schools and epochs in the…
The first of these volumes comprises a selection from Mrs. Jameson’s miscellaneous writings, and includes several of the best known and most pleasing of her minor productions. Among them are the three essays on The House of Titian, Washington Allston, and Adelaide Kemble, which were first published twelve or fifteen years ago, and were re…
The late Mr. Woodburn was well known as a collector of paintings, and often employed in that capacity, both by English noblemen and gentlemen, and by the government. His collection of pictures, including works of the Italian, Flemish, Dutch, and German schools, was recently put up for sale by public auction. As might be expected…
A recent ccession of the Museum is a XVI century Italian portrait of the Lombard school, ascribed with a high degree of plausibility to the painter Gianpietrino ( Pietro Rizzo or Ricci), who flourished at Milan during the latter part of the XV century and the opening years of the XVI century. He was not…
The thirteenth century is the golden age of French Gothic sculpture. It is the century of the greatest sculptures of Chartres and Amiens and Paris, and of ill-fated Rheims. It is the century of the unknown sculptor to whose master chisel we owe the statue of the Virgin and Child which has recently come into…
A single picture acquired in 191 3 is anterior to the nineteenth century. It is a Madonna attributed to Bartolommeo Suardi, whose intimacy with Bramante and whose care to follow Bramante’s second manner gave him the surname of “ Bramantino,” the ‘‘little Bramante.” The Milanese School developed late, playing but a small part in the early…
Florentine and Roman Schools: Da Vinci The art of a nation passes through very much the same development as that of an individual. There are the first crude efforts, and then the struggle with technical difficulties. The delirious pleasure of over coming the latter, then, very often makes one forget the end for the means,…
Giulio Romano (1492-1546) was the strongest of Raphael’s pupils, and became the real founder of the Roman School, which directly influenced the painting of the Decadence. As long as he was under Raphael’s influence he painted so closely in his style that in many instances his work is almost like his master’s; but after Raphael’s…
The Hallmarks of the Renaissance a. Individualism b. Secularism c. Antiquity d. Skepticism 2. Renaissance Art Renaissance Women – Men married younger women – Resulted in many widows – Women could inherit property – In charge of nurturing children O Some say that’s why the arts.. – Upper class women enjoyed high degree of freedom…
The David, a popular art subject was a take from the biblical story of the young boy who heroically killed the over towering giant Goliath. Other artists such as Michelangelo and Donated have created their own versions of the David, with the exception of having sculpted them in different time periods. Tangelo’s was in the…
Adrian Sage Rachel Shaw Our tape projects shows artistic investigation in that we had to look into the aspects of this character to try and figure out how we could best represent them with what we had. We looked into the culture of the show and his character in order to do just that. As…
Sculpture is neglected in England. In a country where there are so many beautiful specimens of the art in our cathedrals, we ought to try to regain what is perhaps the highest of the arts, and the noblest expression of the artistic spirit. I say “perhaps”—you must excuse the painter’s “perhaps;” forthough there is more…
Scott Eaton The artist of this paper’s five pieces of work are created and conceptualized by Scott Eaton. He is an artist and designer from the I-J and uses traditional art techniques with digital tools. What makes his work so fascinating is his knowledge of anatomy and clean use and mastery of the media. This…
