I chose to study Portugese artist Duarte Vitoria’s work because of his use of colour and variety of detail and brushstrokes. Vitoria generally paints huge expressive portraits of the female form. He works with oil on canvas and his use of colour is dramatic and distinct. His subjects portray a unique vulnerability and they seem to be very restricted in space, almost as if they are compressed within the frame. This restriction allows for the body to be painted in its wholeness, almost as if an exploration of a body ‘squeezed against a canvas’ – as on critic put it. The scale of his work magnifies the expressions of his subjects and highlights the distortions of their bodies. In some parts his technique can be found brutal and expressive, but …show more content…
His work is the result of an ongoing apprenticeship, and he has studied painters he has admired for years. Liepke paints sensual figurative oil paintings of women, in a different manner to those of Vitoria, in that his work is provocative and he models are beautiful. His subjects vary from innocent looking young women, to glamorously fashionable women. Many of the women he paints are nude and quite often wearing heavy makeup and statement jewellery. A lot of his subjects appear as if they were from the last century, almost in a 1920’s Parisian chic style. His work is very sensual and passionate, and we can see a huge appreciation of femininity and sexual freedom within his work. There is a huge engagement between the woman and the viewer, direct eye contact is constantly present in his work and we feel ask if we are being looked at by the art, rather than the other way around. The expressions on the women’s faces are very alluring and it is hard to break eye contact with his work. The viewer is almost trapped in an awkward gaze with the subjects, and even when just a portrait, we are given a feeling of sexualisation. The women themselves have stereotypically beautiful, slim figures, huge lustful eyes and pouted lips. They seem as if they are cover girls from magazines, perhaps aimed at men. His work is very personal and his use of colour and light, especially as highlights, make the women appear to be glistening, a style rather commonly used in provocative photo shoots. His work almost appears as if we have stumbled upon an intimate moment, one so overtly sexual, but without any sort of actual sexual connotation. His painting style adds to this massively, using soft and supple pinks and whites for skin tone and white highlights so add a shine to his model’s skin. He has produced a colossal amount of work, which has become exceedingly popular, and as one critic says, this is because ‘sex sells’. His
Ester Hernandez is a Chicana artist, best known for her works of Chicana women. Ester’s goal is to recreate women’s lives to produce positive images of women’s lifestyle and to create icons. Her piece, Frida y Yo, contains the iconic painter Frida Kahlo. Frida, after being in multiple accidents causing long-term pain and suffering, began painting, mostly self-portraits, to portray her reality and glorify the pain. Similar to how Hernandez's goals are a juxtaposition to Frida’s artwork, the art piece Frida y Yo creates a juxtaposition between life and suffering and death and fortune.
Raul Ramirez is a very confident, creative student that is in Mr.Ward’s high school english class in The Bronx,New York, who loves to paint. Raul used to paint his sister by bribing her with whatever he could scunge up,but know his girlfriend just sits for him. He knows that painting will not give him much money and tells the readers by saying “People just don’t get it.Even if I never make a dime --which,by the way,ain’t gonna happen--I’d still have to paint.” Raul is also a very shy teenager that wants to be an artist and will be the first person in his family to be a painter if he becomes one. The thing is even though his “brothers” don’t support him--by laughing at him and saying he's loco-- he still wants to paint and says it by saying
Surprisingly, fifty years later, artist John Sloan happen to meet all the qualifications Baudelaire has designed for Monsieur G— making urban life observations and drawing from memory. Sloan adopts and employs Baudelaire’s idea of urban watching and further expands it for an American audience. Born and raised in Philadelphia, John Sloan first begun his art career as a newspaper illustrator. After years of working, he developed his own artistic style and started making paintings and etchings. When he moved from Philadelphia to New York, he has found that city life scenes of great interest that he then started observing and making etchings for scenes of modern life. He was well-known and celebrated as the founder of the Ashcan School and was most celebrated for this urban genre scenes. (Lobel, Chapter1)
Subject: Our docent, Mary, shared with us that this artist loved to paint the human body and was well known for his painting of the human body and skin. This piece certainly highlights those skills. The colors of the hair and skin are incredibly life like.
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654?) was one of the most important women artists before the modern period and certainly one of the most famous female painters from the seventeenth century. Gentileschi’s paintings regularly featured women as the protagonists acting in a manner equal to men. In fact, forty nine of her paintings fall into this category. She was raped at the age of 18 and the subsequent events lent her a certain amount of notoriety. These factors have led many to interpret her artwork as an expression of her role as a female victim looking for revenge through her art. Instead, a closer examination of Gentileschi’s life and her artwork exposes the artist as an individual with personal strength and incredible talent who painted subjects similar to or the same as those of her male counterparts, instead of staying within the guiding principles of what was acceptable “feminine” art.
Maximilien Luce created a painting named Rue Ravignan, Paris. This artwork was made in 1893 and was created by using oil on canvas. The piece is representational by the manner in which he has created buildings, people, trees, and streetlamps which are clearly seen. The painting is of a dark street lit only by streetlamps which are created by small dots and the style called pointillism. This painting is very dark with purple, blue and pink hues. The street lamps are lit on casting a shadow from the person walking along the street and the man walking on the side walk hunched over. The person walking along the sidewalk seems to be an older gentleman holding a cane in his left hand and his shadow is seen on the wall beside him. The sky is blue
Maria Van Oosterwyck’s painting of the “Vanitas Still Life” is layered with different shapes, colors, and sizes which makes it difficult and intriguing to analyze. Through the different lighting, color, spacing,
In the first image on the left, a man is kissing a lady; the artistic way of expression can be interrupted as disrespectful or offensive. Her work has had a lot of criticism as there is too much sexuality featured. For example, the boy and the girl on the cliff having oral sex. Nevertheless, she doesn’t shy away from controversial topics of racism, gender,and sexuality in her paper -cut silhouette.
Pablo Picasso is well renowned as an artist who adapted his style based on the changing currents of the artistic world. He worked in a variety of styles in an effort to continually experiment with the effects and methods of painting. This experimentation led him to the realm of cubism where Picasso worked on creating forms out of various shapes. We are introduced to Picasso’s nonrepresentational art through the advent of the cubist style of painting. During his time working on this style, Picasso developed the painting Woman in the Studio. A painting created late in Picasso’s artistic career, this painting displays many of the characteristics common in cubism. The painting’s title serves as a description of the painting and explains the scenario depicted by Pablo Picasso. In analyzing this work, it is important to observe the subject matter, understand the formal elements of the painting, and attempt to evoke and comprehend the emotions represented in the painting. Woman in the Studio is a painting of cubist origin that combines the standard elements of cubism in order to produce a monochromatic depiction of a woman associated with Picasso.
The gestural and heavy working of the paint and the contrasting colors make the painting appear active yet are arduous to follow. The defining element of Woman and Bicycle is the presence of the black lines that do most of the work in terms of identifying the figure. Through the wild nature of the brushwork, color, and composition of the painting, it can be implied that the artist is making an implication towards the wild nature of even the most proper of women.
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.
The art piece chosen for analyzing in this essay is from Claude Monet, The Windmill on the Onbekende Gracht Amsterdam oil on canvas painting from 1874. Claude Monet was born on November 14 in 1840 in Paris, French, and he death on December 5 in 1926 in Giverny, France. He was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement 's philosophy of expressing one 's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plain air landscape painting. According with the information next to the painting in the museum of art in Houston “on one of his visits to Holland, Monet was intrigued by this charming windmill situated on the small “unknown quayside” in Amsterdam. The mill, built in 1656, produced textile dyes and was demolished in 1876.
Though most works of art have some underlying, deeper meaning attached to them, our first impression of their significance comes through our initial visual interpretation. When we first view a painting or a statue or other piece of art, we notice first the visual details – its size, its medium, its color, and its condition, for example – before we begin to ponder its greater significance. Indeed, these visual clues are just as important as any other interpretation or meaning of a work, for they allow us to understand just what that deeper meaning is. The expression on a statue’s face tells us the emotion and message that the artist is trying to convey. Its color, too, can provide clues: darker or lighter colors can play a role in how we judge a piece of art. The type of lines used in a piece can send different messages. A sculpture, for example, may have been carved with hard, rough lines or it may have been carved with smoother, more flowing lines that portray a kind of gentleness.
The painting, in its simplest form, consists of a naked woman lying elegantly upon stately and rich cloths, while a young, also nude boy, is holding a mirror which contains her reflection. Upon first glance of this work, I was quickly able to make out the identity of the two subjects. ...
A Hierarchy of Class in spite of Manners Throughout the course of history, human beings have made a conscious effort to stratify each other into separate classes as a method of distinguishing individuality, superiority, and entitlement. These labels have since become a method of operation for society and a basis of tradition for interactions between one another. However, as time goes on, the people marked by these classifications can outgrow the meaning and use of them, leading to misrepresentation, confusion, and manipulation within the social fabric of society. In early 19th Century England, the symptoms of class integration began to take hold within the country, and the defining characteristics of what constituted someone of high class