Jenn Murphy
Porfessor Sackman
Art Appreciation
25, November 2014
Eugene Delacroix
Eugene Delacroix was a famous French artist who was known for creating paintings that drew attention to social issues. I find his art to be very interesting because of the emotion the painting conveys. I find his work to be very inspiring in the sense that he uses his talents to voice his opinion on such significant issues, especially in a time when it was not acceptable for people to speak out and raise awareness against issues. Four images by Eugene Delacroix that I really enjoy are Liberty Leading the People, The Fanatics of Tangier, The Combat of Giaour and Hassan, and The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople because I feel that they embody the power
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The Death of Sardanapalus captures the situation of Sardanapalus, the last king of Assyria, is about to die in battle. Around Sardanapalus are naked slaves being tortured and murdered. Liberty Leading the People was painted to remember the power of the French Revolution. The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople really portrays the emotion of torture. The people in on the bottom are reaching out and screaming. These three paintings show the maturation of Eugene’s style to painting with …show more content…
Four images by Eugene Delacroix that I really enjoy are Liberty Leading the People, The Fanatics of Tangier, The Combat of Giaour and Hassan, and The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople because I feel that they embody the power of the social consciousness he raised. Eugene Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People in 1830. It became known as one of Eugene’s most influential paintings. Liberty Leading the People represents the freedom and liberty the Parisians felt as the French Revolution came to an end. You can see the passion in the eyes of the characters as they stand under the French flag with the blue, white, and red colors brightly waving in the air. Using Liberty to lead the people captures the beauty in freedom. In 1838, The Fanatics of Tangier was painted. Eugene traveled to North Africa with Court de Mornay, the French Ambassador. Court de Mornay was there to negociate a friendship treaty with the sultan of Morocco. While the two were there they witnessed a fight. Eugene really captures the emotion of the fighters with the vibrant colors he uses. He uses certain brushstrokes on the characters in the front to create a lot of intense attention on them. The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan was created in 1826. In this painting Giaour is fighting the Muslim Hassan in revenge of the death of his lover who was killed by Hassan. The brushwork Eugene used
During Vincent Van Gogh’s childhood years, and even before he was born, impressionism was the most common form of art. Impressionism was a very limiting type of art, with certain colors and scenes one must paint with. A few artists had grown tired of impressionism, however, and wanted to create their own genre of art. These artists, including Paul Gaugin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paul Cezanne, hoped to better express themselves by painting ...
Emiliano Zapata occupies a central place in this painting. He was the main leader of the peasant revolution in Mexico. At the back of the painting we can see his army which is mainly formed of common people. They are armed with bows, arrows and machetes in contrast to their leader, carrying only a sickle, used for cutting sugar cane. This displays that the people are soldiers and they are ready to fight to death for their freedom from the suppressors . Also it expresses their full devotion towards Zapata.
Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South and Madonna Enthroned are very similar images that were produced by very different cultures. Both images were produced during the 13th Century. The image of Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South was produced in Tibet during an interesting period of the country’s religious history. The branch of Tibetan Buddhism is led by a religious and sometimes political leader called the Dalai Lama. It was during the 13th Century during the reign of Kublai Khan, around the time of the production of this painting, that Tibet experienced the first incarnation of the Dalai Lama. One has to wonder if this painting is somehow related to that occurrence. According to one source, the reincarnation system for the Living Buddhas is the main point distinguishing Tibetan Buddhism from other forms of Buddhism.
Diego Rivera was born December 8th, 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico (1). He first began creating art and murals at the age of three after the death of his twin brother (2). His parents caught him but rather then punishing him for it they instead nurtured his growing creativity by installing canvas and chalkboards on the walls (2). At the age of 10, Rivera went to further his knowledge at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City (1).
are depicted with the same degree of variation. To understand such a diverse set of paintings –
Both of the artists used two different type of art in there art work Eugene used realistic style and Picasso used Cubism. The definition for realistic style is an attempt to make art and literature resemble life. Realist painters and writers take their subjects from the world around them and try to represent them in a lifelike manner. Picasso was one of the arts who kind a invented cubism, cubism means a perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and later,
Douglass utilizes imagery to identify the nature of desolation of the slave; the slave owner’s absolute dominance over the slaves manipulates the slaves understanding of sorrow, revealing the loss of self reflection as the nature of enslavement.
himself through his mediums. He used oil on canvas for his medium in this painting. There are
This imagery, which is set to an emotionally orchestrated score, prepackages the narrative as being honorable and patriotic even through the explicit portrayal of slavery. The audience’s loyalty to the characters and lifestyle is purchased though the noble portrayal of the Old
The main influences perceptible in this painting are those of Millet, Delacroix, and the Impressio...
This painting by Vincent Van Gogh is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum, in the Impressionism exhibit. There are many things going on in this painting that catch the viewer’s eye. The first is the piece’s vibrant colors, light blues and browns, bright greens, and more. The brush strokes that are very visible and can easily be identified as very thick some might even say bold. The furniture, the objects, and the setting are easy to identify and are proportioned to each other. There is so much to see in this piece to attempt to explain in only a few simple sentences.
This paper will explore Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo differences on the role of the Avant-Garde artists and how their beliefs influence the kind of work they produced. A pioneer of Russian design Vladimir Tatlin is a representative of Russian Realism. He left home when he was fifteen and served on the shipboard. When he became a painter, he often represented sailors in his pictures Art and culture in Russia after Revolution was a tool for creating industrially aesthetical reality. Tatlin’s project The Monument to the Third International (1920) one that so much can be considered an architectural work as a sculptural piece, it constituted by a spiral of iron that is expanded diagonally and enclosed by walls of glass of a much higher height to that of the Eiffel tower. It was never embodied into life, but this project shows that socialist order propagation was of primary concern for artists of the beginning of 20th century in Russia (Avant-Garde, Tatlin). Thus, in accordance with Tatlin, avant-garde artist transfers ideas of social reality of his modernity. In his project Tatlin wanted to reflect technological progress of post-revolutionary Russia. He was called “artist of great culture, a true master, who is a devoted worker for the proletarian revolution” (Avant-Garde – Abstraction in Constructivism).
The Formal Analysis of Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix was born on April 26, 1798. Delacroix was the son of Charles Delacroix and Victoire Oeben. His father served for a short period of time as a minister of foreign affairs. At the time of Delacroix’s birth, his father was on a mission to Holland as ambassador of the French Republic.
One of the visual elements of this painting is the color he really uses the color to get people's attention because he uses watercolors to blend them together to make such a wonderful painting. He blends many different colors together to make new ones there is not a spot in this painting that there isn’t color. The second visual element is the people in the painting they are naked and dancing around like nobody's looking. The people in the painting are relaxing and enjoying one another and various ways. Some are even having sexual contact in the painting it’s expressing themselves from one to
Western Civilization II Guides. “Art Inspired by The French Revolution”. Wordpress, 2007. Web. 5th May 2013.