Omaraid Guerrero
COTA 300
There is a multitude of museums a person could choose to visit in Southern California, each one carrying unique exhibits from different eras and cultures. I chose to visit the Bowers Museum which has numerous exhibits ranging from Pre-Columbian art to more Contemporary and Modern art. California: The Golden Years is one of those exhibits. The exhibit contains the painting called Marinescape by Edgar Payne. The Marinescape painting shows the beauty of California’s coast through the use of impressionistic techniques. These techniques depict the ocean's strong force through light and soft colors, which provide a breathtaking image of the Laguna Beach Coast.
The painting was done in 1918. During this time, there were relatively few residents living in the Laguna Beach area. But due to the stunning scenery there were many artists who were settling in the area in an attempt to capture the remarkable beauty of the coast. Most of the painters that resided along the coast fell under the American Impressionist movement. American Impressionism was often characterized by the use of loose brushstrokes and vivid colors. One American Impressionist was Edgar Payne, whom settled down in the Laguna Beach coast and tried capturing the essence of the majestic coastline. According to the Bowers Museum, Payne’s work embodied the culmination of the Californian Impressionist movement and en plein-air style. These styles utilized the light and space to capture the moment, not just the subject matter.
The style used in Marinescape was developed during the Impressionist movement. This technique used short and bold brush strokes that had no form or detail. In addition, it focused on capturing light and displaying the effects of...
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...s is due to the color chose which are composed of light blues, greens, and browns. These colors give the waves a soft look even when displaying violent motions.
Overall Marinescape by Edgar Payne leave one with a greater appreciation for the coast. The use of watercolors to capture the light from the sun and create shades of sunlight and darkness captures a beautiful morning. This is followed by the different brush strokes that while may lack detail still allow the viewer to see the power of the waves. For a person that has never seen the coast, this painting can give the viewer an almost life like representation and experience of what the Laguna Beach coast may look and feel. While impressionistic painting leaves out certain specifics, the atmosphere created by Payne’s techniques makes up for that lack by capturing the true essence of the Laguna Beach landscape.
From the beginning of the painting history until these days there is no doubt that the world holds a huge number of creative artists. Every artwork is inspired and created with love, dedication, passion and labor. Artists usually express themselves expressing feelings into painting. Wayne White is an American artist who loves to use old paintings to create a three dimensional style. One of his new piece is title Golden surf Rossi, he called this art “the Seventies”. The painting is currently being exhibited at the Gallery of Southwestern State College. It is around 40 by 22 inches; it is engraved in wood frame with gold color trim
Thomas Moran’s painting captures the essence of the true spirit of the Yellowstone Canyon and overwhelms any viewers who go up to it. With a size of 7’ by 12’ and a mastery display of vivid colors with hues of orange and yellow contrasted with the dark cold colors of the shadows, anyone would be overwhelmed. Under the cool shade, the path extending in front invites the viewer to join the tiny figures in the distance who seem to overlook the grand valley of the canyon below. The view from where those people are in the distance could be quite breathtaking, and this adds to the painting’s value. Moran captured the public and the government’s fascinations with the beauties of America’s Wild West. Moran’s mastery of composition within landscape
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, located in the Art Institute of Chicago, is one of the most recognizable paintings of the 19th century, a painting made by Frenchman Georges Seurat. Finished in 1886, it has gained much of its recognition over the time of its completion; the pop culture of today has played a pivotal role into the popularity of it. An example of that is being apart in one of the most recognizable scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where one of the main characters is solely staring at the painting until he can’t even recognize the artwork. This painting also gets much attention because it was an early example of the style of pointillism, at the time; pointillism was becoming a new way of expressing one self with the new technique. It also brought upon about the way we saw paintings, and what we gained from the artwork as whole. In all this painting has become an icon in the art scene, due to the technique it used, and how much of an impact it has had in today culture.
Born in 1886 Diego Rivera was born to a wealthy family living in Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of two his twin brother died and a year later Diego Rivera started drawing, his parents caught him drawing on walls and instead of punishing him nurtured his artistic side by enabling him with the supplies he needed. Throughout his life Diego Rivera was dedicated to art, “He began to study painting at an early age and in 1907 moved to Europe. Spending most of the next fourteen years in Paris, Rivera encountered the works of such great masters as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse.” Influenced by the work of such great minds Rivera began the search for his own signature and contribution to modern art, “Rivera was searching for a new form of painting, one that could express the complexities of his day and still reach a wide audience.” Rivera found the medium he was looking for, a form of street art involving murals painted on fresh plaster, he returned to Mexico to introduce this new form of art to the public. Rivera soon sewed himself into the art community in America, “His outgoing personality puts him at ...
In the late 1970's and early 80's, The Great Wall of Los Angeles was hardly a scar, but rather a vibrant rebirth of a poverished, low income neighborhood in the San Bernadino Valley. The community was united and transpired by the colorful creative collaborative work on this long mural that transended the Tujunga canal for almost a mile. Sewn from the creativity and passion for California history, muralist Judy Baca, along with other artist, and the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) began the "beautification efforts" of this otherwise run down poverished neighborhood.
Mark Rothko is recognized as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and during his lifetime was touted as a leading figure in postwar American painting. He is one of the outstanding figures of Abstract Expressionism and one of the creators of Color Field Painting. As a result of his contribution of great talent and the ability to deliver exceptional works on canvas one of his final projects, the Rothko Chapel offered to him by Houston philanthropists John and Dominique de Menil, would ultimately anchor his name in the art world and in history. Without any one of the three, the man, the work on canvas, or the dream, the Rothko Chapel would never have been able to exist for the conceptualization of the artist, the creations on canvas and the architectural dynamics are what make the Rothko Chapel a product of brilliance.
The paintings reflected a light, which produced a radiance being dubbed "luminists" in 1954 by art historian John I. H. Baur (Pohl, 2012). The "luminists" landscape artists were: Fitz Hugh Lane (1804-65), John Frederick Kensett (1816-72), and Martin Johnson Head (1819-1904) (Pohl, 2012). According to Pohl (2012), in Lane's, The Western Shore with Norman's Woe of 1862, Kensett's Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor of 1857, and the Heade's Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay of 1868, "one senses not the bravura of a nation whose future lies to the west, but the reflectiveness of a nation whose past lies to the east and whose future is not yet resolved" (p. 161). The qualities of "luminist" painters were differentiated from the "pastoral, allegorical, and sublime landscapes" of Church, Cole and numerous artists (Pohl, 2012). According to Pohl (2012), a literary scholar named David C. Miller wrote, "the impersonality of many luminists paintings derives from the simplification and abstraction of forms and in evenness of the treatment of the entire composition that verges on a democratization of the picture plane" (p.161-62). Head's painting, Thunder Storm, reflected a nervousness and awkward silence that showed a blending with nature (Pohl, 2012). The symbolism that "luminists" artists
Comparing different works of art from one artist can help a person gain a better understanding of an artist and the purpose of their artwork. An artist’s works of art usually have similarities as well as differences when compared together. Sandy Skoglund is a photographer that stages entire rooms to create a scene for her photographs. Skoglund uses painting, sculpture, and photography to create her artwork. Due to the fact that most of her photographs are created in similar ways, almost all of her photographs have similar components represented throughout the photographs. Differences can be found in her artwork as well. Skoglund’s Revenge of The Goldfish, 1981 (Figure 1), is a popular work of art that is represented at the Akron Art Museum
Impressionism is very pretty and complicated. It was from 1860 to 1910. Monet is the perfect Impressionist. Impressionism had its basic tenants. Their subject matter was the middle upper class, the city, and leisurely activities. They painted on en plein air which means they painted outdoors. They painted in snow, rain, storm, just in order to record directly the effects of light and atmosphere. They painted with strokes and touches of pure color by using a great deal of white and rarely black. They recorded the shifting play of light on the surface of objects and the effect light has on the eye without concern for the physicality of the object being painted. They were influenced by Japanese art and photography. One of Monet’s works is titled Water Lilies. The medium of this work is oil on canvas. Monet is an impressionist. He puts up pure color just describe the water. He said, when you go out paint, the impression of the scene not the exact scene.
Moso society which better known as Na, is a small minority group living in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China. For over decades, they have implemented a matrilineal system through their culture. Matrilineality is defined as a system in which their descendants are traced using their mother lineages. Since Moso society applied the matrilineal system in their culture, there are several implications and characteristics that can be analyzed from that point of view. One of the practice in an accordance to matrilineality is called a “walking marriage”. There is no traditional marriage in Moso culture, so in a family there are neither husband nor wives. In walking marriage the partners do not live in the same household, after midnight the man who has been given permission to visit the woman comes to spending the night with her and return to his home in the early morning. As a result, Moso’s family structure, child preference and gender equality are affected by the practice of walking marriage.
Landscape painting was extremely important during the middle of the nineteenth century. One of the leading practitioners of landscape painters in America was Thomas Cole. He visited many places seeking the “natural” world to which he might utilize his direct observations to convey the untainted nature by man to his audience. His works resolved to find goodness in American land and to help Americans take pride in their unique geological features created by God. Thomas Cole inspired many with his brilliant works by offering satisfaction to those seeking the “truth” (realism) through the works of others.
The transition of art movements that were taking place most of the impressionist painters lives would move from impressionism of post-impressionism to futurism. All three movements are coincided with the developments of technology in the cities as well as the infatuation with shapes and color blocking that pervaded the wood-block prints of Japan. Throughout the past four-hundred years, there has been a stark change in how the world perceives and realizes art- from scrolls to canvas, to spray-painting the sides of buildings, there consistently is someone who can see a new way to deliver their expression. This message was true in the way that Paul Cézanne would portray his art. The piece Mont. Sainte-Victoire (1906), is labeled as a cubist piece, however it carries over the techniques and philosophies that were utilized by painters in America, Europe and Ja...
I chose the art piece entitled An American Ship in Distress because it looks pretty amazing. Another reason I chose to analyze this piece as opposed to the others is because it was the piece I liked the most, therefore making me analyze it more closely and discover other aspects of the work would make me appreciate it more. I also chose this because I enjoy being on boats and this really caught my attention. In this art work it shows a ship being tossed around by the stormy ocean waves. The artist who painted this piece is named Thomas Birch. The medium is an oil painting on canvas. This painting was made in 1841 and it’s from the Putnam Foundation. This work does fit into a genre and it’s a waterscape.
The first painting analyzed was North Country Idyll by Arthur Bowen Davis. The focal point was the white naked woman. The white was used to bring her out and focus on the four actual colored males surrounding her. The woman appears to be blowing a kiss. There is use of stumato along with atmospheric perspective. There is excellent use of color for the setting. It is almost a life like painting. This painting has smooth brush strokes. The sailing ship is the focal point because of the bright blue with extravagant large sails. The painting is a dry textured flat paint. The painting is evenly balanced. When I look at this painting, it reminds me of settlers coming to a new world that is be founded by its beauty. It seems as if they swam from the ship.
Claude Monet and Camile Pissarro were two of the founders of Impressionism, a movement that was largely influenced by its predecessor, Realism. Originally, Monet’s career in art started with him drawing caricatures of the townspeople of Le Havre. Then in 1857, he met en plein-air painter, Eugène Boudin. He urged a reluctant eighteen year old Monet to paint outdoors, encouraging him to “see the light.” Boudin’s teachings would later influence Monet as he met artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley in 1862. Together they refined plein–air painting; they investigated the effects of light as they painted with broken colours and rapid brushstrokes across a canvas. In contrast was Pissarro as his earliest works were rendered in the more traditional Academic style-invisible brushstrokes, and realistic subject matter. Though in 1859, his works became looser and freer, greatly influenced by Camille Corot’s rural scenes and Gustave Courbet’s plein-air paintings.