Historical Information about your artwork 2. This painting was just made to basically show the american culture in the 1940s 3. The materials would have been just oil and canvas and neither of these would have been unusual about these materials. 5. The piece was first consigned to Frank Rehn Galleries in 1942 and was sold to the art institute of chicago in 1942 Color The artist’s use color in a different way than usual because he uses particularly warm colors to paint certain things like the building and the bar that the people are sitting at. The paint is definitely not blended because all of the colors are there they aren't mixed together. C. There are many different details in this painting and some of them are very hard to spot. Like the fact that the lady is eating something that looks to be green. I think that this is symbolic of the fact that she …show more content…
The artwork itself is a very detailed and very hard to decipher the meaning of this artwork because it has not straight meaning behind it. It’s very hard because of the colors and symbolism that are associated with the painting also. There is a mix of warm and cool colors in this and it makes the tone very unknowable. You kind of have to think with this one with an open mind the reason is that again there isn’t a straightforward meaning at all. Then you have to think with the mindset that the artists just picture what has happened in their lifetime. So this was made in 1942 and that means that the world war two was happening. So i think that this painting is about how people are just coming together to talk about ww11 so this is about people who are “nighthawks”. Artist Background 2. He was born in 1882 in Nyack, New York. He was the youngest of the other children. He had one sibling in his family. He was educated all the way through college. He went to the New York school of art to get his education in college. That is where he got his artistic training. He originally wanted to be a nautical
Wayne, transforms this painting into a three dimensional abstract piece of art. The focal point of the painting are the figures that look like letters and numbers that are in the front of the piece of art. This is where your eyes expend more time, also sometimes forgiving the background. The way the artist is trying to present this piece is showing happiness, excitement, and dreams. Happiness because he transmits with the bright colours. After probably 15 minutes on front of the painting I can feel that the artist tries to show his happiness, but in serene calm. The excitement that he presents with the letters, numbers and figures is a signal that he feels anxious about what the future is going to bring. Also in the way that the colors in the background are present he is showing that no matter how dark our day can be always will be light to
Furthermore, painted are weeping women surrounded by deceased girls holding lifeless infants behind the military figure. A smog or gas seems to engulf them along with dead children. Even more, a third painting shows children from all over the world giving weapons to a German boy who is molding them into an uncertain object, showing there is no longer a need for weapons in a New World. In addition, the military man is dead with 2 doves above him, signifying such peace that has been brought. The final image is of a man in the middle, signifying Jesus.
During World War II many places and artworks came to be of historical and artistic significance. Lots of ...
The painting was done by artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. This was one of the best paint I came a cross in the museum as it helps to understand the Art work in painting. When we look the elements and principle of arts, are well presented in the painting. The first element we see is the Perspective; this the way in which artists create something that deceives the eye or mind on a horizontal level and relatively smooth. For decades, painters have tried to represent the real scene that existed in three dimensions on canvas. In addition, to create this perspective is to make the objects that are far away smaller than those that are closer to the viewer. The other way painter use to give depth to the painting is the sailor on the left who is digging his oar into mass of floating ice. Moreover, the soldiers in the distance appear to be smaller than the ones in the forefront boat that help the viewer to understand that the boat is nearer. The standing sailors in the middle of the boat are surrounded by light. This result keeps our attention of interest on the main aspects of the historic event: that founding father George Washington would become the first president and this event would culminate in the country's separation from the colonist represented by the American flag. Dark colors can often convey a sense of mystery or foreboding Light colors; and Intensity describes the purity or strength of a color. Undiluted bright colors are often associated with positive energy and heightened emotions.
Born in March of 1916 as Jacob (Jack) Ezra Katz, he was the third child to Benjamin and Augusta Katz. His parents were both Polish immigrants of Jewish descent and they raised him in East New York, the predominantly Jewish section of Brooklyn. As immigrants they were plagued with financial difficulties and this was further aggravated when they struggled through the Depression. Despite all of these hardships, Keats had already begun to showcase his artistic abilities. At the age of eight he was hired to paint the sign of a local store. Naturally, his father was quite proud of him when he earned twenty-five cents for his work and hoped that this might endeavor might lead to a steady career as a sign pa¬inter. Unfortunately for him, Keats was smitten with Fine Arts and won his first award in Junior High School: a medal for ...
When you put all these aspects put together with my interpretation of what is happening in the painting, a sense of calmness and security was constructed for me. No matter what this couple may be going through at the end of the day they still lean on each other for support. The complementary colors symbolized a sensation of strength between them, the balance of the composition created a stability characteristic, and the smooth and fluid brush strokes created a tranquil energy between the
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B. Shape – The most obvious shape is the round sun in the upper left of the painting. The bottom of the sun is going into the horizon to represent sunset. The house is represented by a triangle front on top of a cube to give the impression of depth. An oval shape represents the figure’s face.
Although many interpretations are made in regard to the painting, Nighthawks reflects a contextual interpretation through alienation. In the painting, you view the figures as separate from the outside world, nestled in the center of the diner and surrounded by huge glass windows with florescent lighting beaming down on them. They are all victims of an apathetic world, lonely, and isolated. There is also no communication amongst the characters - even though they are not psychically isolated, they are emotionally. There 's also no door shown that would allow the observer conceivable entrance into the lonely nightlife. Also, the streets outside are completely empty, offering those inside no comfort within the enclosed diner, an indictment of detachment. Overall, this painting reflects an honest and uncompromising outlook of the world in the heart of a devastating era, full of war and
...he American Civil War. No matter what, the pictures of war that I’ve seen all have the same sad, hopeless, and tired expression of the soldiers that have fought that I think the painter was trying to show. This expression that has been like boulders on the shoulders of the soldiers won’t just go away, but I see it outside of the war as well; the wars of everyday life. It’s almost as if these warriors’ heavy hearts were so heavy that it physically weighed their bodies down to a shrug. I think that John Singer Sargent wasn’t sent to France to just capture the aftermath of World War I, but to capture the feeling that people have after their own wars. I think this heavy hearted and sorrow feeling that is expressed in this picture wasn’t just painted for this particular war, but to represent the wars people like us, the soldiers, fight in everyday life in our own war.
Ad Reinhardt's painting, Abstract Painting 1960-65, is at first glance' a black square canvas. The subject matter seems to be just what it is, a black painting. There are no people. No event or action is taken except for the fact that Reinhardt has made the painting. The title only provides us with the information that we are looking at an abstract painting. The only other information that the artist gives you is the time period, in which it was conceived, 1960 to 1965. In the least amount of words possible, we could describe the painting as an abstract color field. It is possible that a narrative is expressed through the piece, although, we can not be certain what it is. There is nothing narrated through conventional means in any way.
Born in July of 1882 in New York, Hopper grew up interested in art and encouraged by his parents. After attending both the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York City and the New York School of Art, Hopper experienced a shift in interest from illustrations to the fine arts1. While studying with the impressionist artist William Merritt Chase and the realistic painter Rober...
Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France and moved to LeHavre with his family at age five (Skira 21). As a schoolboy, Monet doodled in the margins of his books. His artistic career began by drawing caricatures of his schoolmasters distorting their faces and profiles outrageously. By the time he was fifteen, people would pay ten or twenty francs for one of his drawings (Skira 22).
D. There two compositions used in this painting, dynamic and asymmetrical. Dynamic because first, my eyes sighted the boat and the man on it, sharks, blood, the storm, ship and the flying fish. Asymmetrical because the right side is heavier the man on the boat is leaning
Op Art does not blend colors. The lines and shapes are defined. Artists do not use shading. Two high-contrast colors placed next to each other to trick the eye into seeing movement.