In the year of 1877, an Italian American Painter was born and his name is Joseph Stella. He was born to a middle class family in Muro Lucan, Italy. Stella’s grandfather and father was attorney, so Joseph decides to go to the United States and study medicine. However, Joseph was only studying medicine because his older brother is a Doctor, then he took an interest in art. Stella attended as a full time in the Art Students League then went to New York School of Art, one of the finest art and quiet expensive, but was worth it. He began to work as an illustrator, started to publish a couple of his drawing into magazines. Joseph went to Paris on the 1910s that is where he met Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, both of them introduced him to their works of art plus encountered in futurism. A method of painting is Futurism attempting to express the properties of speed, objects, cities and motion. Later on, Joseph went back to American and his first masterpiece, The Battle of Lights, Coney Island. The Battle of Lights, is an oil painting, it was an inspiration for him to travel to Coney Island and experience the lifetime. The image down below of Battle of Lights, you can geometric shape, lines and bright, but light colors. Stella was trying to capture the sights and atmospheres of his surroundings for an urban environment. …show more content…
During the 1920s, Joseph became fascinated with the geometric quality of architecture at the Lower Manhattan and that is why he drew the Brooklyn Bridge.
He is best known for the Brooklyn Bridge painting, the blinking lights at the bottom of the image and there’s the crisscrossed wires which indicates the movement through space. The medium or technique used on the painting is oil in canvas. Stella describes The Brooklyn Bridge as a memorial for all the efforts of the new civilization of American. He uses exciting and motion modern style on the Brooklyn Bridge painting, notable for sweeping and dynamic
lines. Some artists or folks would say that the powerful image of these would be the stability and solidarity. The Brooklyn Bridge styles are representation and abstract. The representation would be the natural objects in a recognizable form like the building on the left of the image and to the right there’s a flashing light a train. The abstract will be the resembling less real things like the line, form, how the colors are an on point with the bridge rather than faithful. The form is the two-dimensional it’s on the middle of the Bridge. There is even modeling, light and shadows are to make a 3D or 2D form. Some of the objects are the Towers of the Bridge on the top, traffic signals at the lower center and the bridge cables are in the edge to the center. The way Joseph drew The Brooklyn Bridge is around night time when you see dark shadows and bright lights. When you drive over the bridge, a couple of things you point out are the fragments and the headlights flash everywhere. You can hear all the traffic and the water splashing around the bridge. Some of the four fundamentals that I took an interest was how Joseph Stella helps us see the world, meaning the Brooklyn Bridge, how he drew it and provided a lot of details. Also, the surroundings of the bridge like the buildings, cars and trains. He made it visuals for the audience to see how Brooklyn Bridge looks like on the inside and places you could visit meaning New York City. There were a lot of functional objects, shapes around the image and the buildings are long rectangles. The last fundamental is Stella separating the light from the dark; it is like some kind of spiritual form. His person feelings are all the image maybe the sadness and the exciting times he had in New York.
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Lie spent much of his youth studying art in Paris and Norway (Rollins 2). While studying in Paris, Lie found great inspiration from the works of Impressionist artist, Claude Monet. After returning from Paris, Lie moved to New York City, giving art classes for aspiring young artists (Caldwell 2). During this period, Lie painted Dusk on Lower Broadway, and through this piece, one is able to see the heavy influence of Impressionism and the techniques of Claude Monet reflected beautifully.
The book, “The Light in the Forest” is a book written by Conrad Richter. This book is about a young man named True Son. He was a young white boy that was captured by Indians. True Son was only four years old when he was captured, and eventually adopted as one of their own. True Son, at the time was way too young to fully understand what was going on. All’s True Son knew was that he had a family, an Indian family that loved him very much. To True Son, he was pure indian.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, born the son of a London Barber and Wigmaker, is considered one of the greatest European artists of the 19th century. Turner, the English romantic landscape painter, watercolourists and printmaker, was regarded as a controversial and revolutionary figure by his contemporaries despite his training being similar to other artists of the time. His work ‘Walton Bridge’, Oil on Canvas 1806-10, reflects much of his training as a young artists as well as his well-known Romantic style. In this essay I will follow the beginnings of Turners artistic life, showing how his influences, training and opinions surrounding landscape painting have influenced his work ‘Walton Bridge.’ I will further explore how art critics, fellow artists and the wider public of the 19th Century received ‘Walton Bridge’ and his Landscape paintings in general.
Many people say that the metal of a man is found in his ability to keep his ideals in spite of anything that life can through at you. If a man is found to have done these things he can be called a hero. Through a lifelong need to accept responsibility for all living things, Robert Ross defines his heroism by keeping faith with his ideals despite the betrayal, despair and tragedy he suffers throughout the course of The Wars by Timothy Findley.
The painting Light of Hope is a realistic painting of a light house on the coast of an American shore done by contemporary artist Thomas Kinkade. Thomas Kinkade started his career with his first lithograph, and after some time he realized he was inspired to paint not for the money but from his heart. His main goal became glorifying God and spreading His light. Kinkade grew up in Placerville, California and growing up to be a big family man. Often in his paintings he leaves little symbols representing his wife and children. Over the years he has donated his earned money to different charities and is al crediting God for his ability to paint. His purpose as a painter has been and will continue to share of the light of God (Thomaskinkade).
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 18th century is well known for its complex artistic movements such as Romantism and Neo-classical. The leading style Rococo thrived from 1700-1775 and was originated from the French words rocaille and coquille which meant “rock” and “shell”; used to decorate the Baroque gardens1. Identified as the age of “Enlightenment”, philosophers would ignite their ideas into political movements1. Associated with this movement is England’s John Locke who advanced the concept of “empiricism”. This denotes that accepting knowledge of matters of fact descends from experience and personal involvement1. Locke’s concept assisted the improvements of microscopes and telescopes allowing art students in the French academy to observe real life1. Science and experience influenced painting more so in Neo-Classicalism. Locke fought for people’s rights and the power or “contract” between the ruler and the ruled. Reasoning that “the Light in Enlightenment referred to the primacy of reason and intellect…and a belief in progress and in the human ability to control nature”1. Hence, the commence of experimental paintings such as Joseph Wright’s (1734-1797) oil on canvas painting: Fig.1 An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. This image was developed through science by placing a bird in glass container and pumping air to see the effects it would have on the bird (White cockatoo)1. Throughout the late 18th and early 19th century in Western Europe, Neo-Classical art became the “true Style” and was accepted by the French Revolution under Louis XIV. Neo-Classical art was a reaction to Rococo’s light hearted, humour and emotion filled pieces.
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.
In this paper, we will focus on examining Vincent’s painting, Starry Night. The paper will begin with a short introduction about Vincent where an analysis will be conducted to explore more into the painting. Subsequently, the paper will move on to explain how Starry Night impacted the wider histories of art and the period where it was created. Lastly, The paper will further examine two accounts or interpretations of Starry Night from art historians.
himself through his mediums. He used oil on canvas for his medium in this painting. There are
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From the creation of art to its modern understanding, artists have strived to perform and perfect a photo realistic painting with the use of complex lines, blend of colors, and captivating subjects. This is not the case anymore due to the invention of the camera in 1827, since it will always be the ultimate form of realism. Due to this, artists had the opportunities to branch away from the classical formation of realism, and venture into new forms such as what is known today as modern art. In the examination of two well known artists, Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock, we can see that the artist doesn’t only intend for the painting to be just a painting, but more of a form of telling a scene through challenging thoughts, and expressing of the artists emotion in their creation.
With Cole, landscape painting took on a stature in America like that which history painting traditionally possessed in Europe. He was able to “transfer the heroic aims of history painters to the landscape category, where at ...
It seems to be his style of painting, thick brush strokes. It is not simple, there is much to the painting, there is emotion in the painting. It is a stunning piece made by him.