Virtual Museum Assignment The View of Toledo, painted by El Greco, is a landscape painting that was worked on from 1598-99. This piece of art work depicts the city of Toledo, located in Spain. The portrait has an ominous feel to it, with the basis of the portrait having been painted with dark colors. Half of the portrait is the dark sky looming in on the city, and the other half consists of the city on top of a hill. The sky takes over the painting, looking as if there was about to be a storm. Many buildings in the View of Toledo were moved around to El Greco’s liking. (Sedef Piker, 2012) Since there were buildings moved around in this painting, this shows that the purpose of the painting was not to show how Toledo looked like. One gets
a catastrophic sense when looking at this painting. It looks as if there is about to be a massive storm released on the city. This could be seen as God about to unleash the storm; the taxing relationship between God and man. Another way to look at this painting is to say that El Greco was releasing his emotions into his artwork. Either way, El Greco was trying to show us how the city felt like from his perspective. El Greco was born in Crete, and eventually found his way under the wing of Titian, a famous artist from the Italian Renaissance. In 1576, El Greco moved to Toledo and spent the rest of his life there. The View of Toledo was a painting that no one had ever seen before at that time in Spanish history. The Council of Trent banned artists from painting landscapes. (Christine Zapella) Because of this, no Spanish artists had painted landscapes, especially not one of a city. The View of Toledo was groundbreaking for El Greco’s time and is seen as one of the most pioneering landscape paintings of all time. The View of Toledo is an expressionist piece of artwork. El Greco used the city to accentuate strong emotion. The clouds in the painting radiate anger. As well as expressionist, the painting is also representational. It realistically shows how the buildings in Toledo looked like in the actual world. El Greco used an oil painting technique to paint the View of Toledo. Oil paint consists of a pigment and a medium that can bind the oil to the pigment. El Greco used a canvas to oil paint the View of Toledo. Since the oil paint dries slower than other paints, El Greco had a variety of brush techniques to choose from and could control the paint more easily. (The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). El Greco’s use of oil painting allowed for the rich color and the expressive look to the painting.
Claude-Joseph Vernet’s oil on canvas painting titled Mountain Landscape with an Approaching Storm was created in 1775, and it is currently located in the European Art Galleries (18th- 19th Century North) 2nd Floor at the Dallas Museum of Art. It is a large-scale painting with overall dimensions of 64 1/2 x 103 1/4 in. (1 m 63.83 cm x 2 m 62.26 cm) and frame dimensions of 76 1/8 x 115 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (1 m 93.36 cm x 2 m 92.74 cm x 12.07 cm). Vernet creates this piece by painting elements from nature and using organic shapes in order to create atmospheric effects, weather and different moods. This piece primarily depicts a landscape with a rocky mountainous terrain and villagers scrambling to an upcoming storm.
When looking at the painting it gives us a glimpse of the past. It looks almost like a photograph. The fine detail from the building on the right with the statue on top. The citizens walking around.
... the Durer landscapes seen in Giulio Campagnola’s Saturn. Campbell’s analysis of poesia is a strong illustration of the examination of works in the field of Art History. Art historians obviously study the physical marks and meanings of a piece of work, but also need to critically analyze the influences and historical context of the time period to get a stronger understanding of the artist and his intentions. As a good art historian, Campbell has taken apart the elements of different images and tied in extrinsic factors, like contemporary events and works, to create a bigger picture.
The oil on canvas painting by Thomas Cole named The Fountain of Vaucluse is a painting that is best appreciated in person. The painting is something that can’t be seen in just a few minutes to really take in all that it has to offer. The different emphasis on colors, and the use of 2D and 3D visual illustrations can be over-welling to the viewer. As I gazed upon the painting I found my viewpoint of interest change do to the altered landscape illusion that came into focus.
... study for the overall concept they appear rather as abstract patterns. The shadows of the figures were very carefully modeled. The light- dark contrasts of the shadows make them seem actually real. The spatial quality is only established through the relations between the sizes of the objects. The painting is not based on a geometrical, box like space. The perspective centre is on the right, despite the fact that the composition is laid in rows parallel to the picture frame. At the same time a paradoxical foreshortening from right to left is evident. The girl fishing with the orange dress and her mother are on the same level, that is, actually at equal distance. In its spatial contruction, the painting is also a successful construction, the groups of people sitting in the shade, and who should really be seen from above, are all shown directly from the side. The ideal eye level would actually be on different horizontal lines; first at head height of the standing figures, then of those seated. Seurats methods of combing observations which he collected over two years, corresponds, in its self invented techniques, to a modern lifelike painting rather than an academic history painting.
The Columbus Museum of Art is a place rich in local history. A place where items of historical and artistic value are stored for safekeeping and allow access for public viewing. The museum has several locally named galleries. It also has a cute children’s area, complete with artwork from little local artists from several schools in the area. The children’s area has several pieces of art that children may touch, like Chicken George. I remember touching that chicken when I would visit as a child. The area also has a mini art studio to cater to the little creative minds that pass through.
Along the far left bank you see a single brick red chimney with a low roof as light wafts of smoke drift toward the left. In the bottom right corner, we see a bit of the bank the perspective is from and bits of grass are also leaning to the left, so one is given the picture of a nice day with at least slight breeze. Towards the center of the painting, you can see large boulders, smoothed, rising out of the river. Far into the distance, past the bank of the river, onto a higher level of the valley area, you see small gathers specks and shapes that represents a small mountain village.
The Tampa Museum of Art was not always the same museum that we see today. It went through multiple stages throughout the years. The works vary, creating a large spectrum from the old to the new. The social angles change with the exhibits in the museum, combining to create the diversity we see today. Visiting this museum in person helped me to appreciate it even more than I would have thought possible. Observing and analyzing the other visitors helped me to understand the museum’s impact on the community more than I would have been able to just by reading about it. This museum is much different from others than I have visited.
The trip to the metropolitan museum was a great trip to learn and to study art. What is art you may ask, well art is an expression you use to show a visual picture. It can be through painting or through sculptures. Some other example of art is music, literature and dancing. For today 's paper we will be talking about art as a sculpture. The two sculptures in this photo are King Sahure and a Nome God and Marble Statue of Dionysos leaning on archaistic female figure (Hope Dionysos). You can find these statues in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. King Sahure and a Nome God is an Egyptian art that was made in 2458-2446 BCE. The artist is unknown. It was during the 5th dynasty and it also belong to the old kingdom. The Marble statue of Dionysos Leaning in the archaistic female figure is a Greco-Roman art. Belonging to the Roman imperial period of the late first century A.D. Augustan or Julio-Claudian period 27 B.C., to 68 AD. It is classified as a stone sculpture and it is made out of marble. The height of the statues is 82 ¾ inches. There is no evidence who was the original artist.
From the piece of artwork “Rain at the Auvers”. I can see roofs of houses that are tucked into a valley, trees hiding the town, black birds, clouds upon the horizon, hills, vegetation, a dark stormy sky and rain.
The formal analysis of The 3rd of May, 1808, Francisco Goya, 1814, oil on canvas. In the following written composition I will examine The 3rd of May, 1808 in a context which will allow me to identify formal elements that Goya manipulated to influence the viewers with a specific outlining message. This work was completed in 1814 using oil on canvas medium. This piece of art stands at approximately 266 by 345cm. This was common for historical paintings to be substantially grander in size. Goya’s goal in this specific painting is to depict the sorrow and heartache connected with the Peninsular war. In this specific work The 3rd of May 1808 he highlights the honor of the massacred Spanish rebellions opposed to the savage French troops. This formal analysis will examine the important technique used by Goya to organize societies depiction of the visual information. Within this work I will concentrate on these elements of color, texture, shape, lines, space, and the value to bring about my own opinion of Goya’s work. Using this strategy applied to The 3rd of May, 1808 work I hope to demonstrate a comprehension how to translate what I see into written words.
drawings, and photography. I found the painting’s depiction successfully showcased the sobering penalties of the cost in battle between French troops and Spanish civilians. Exploring the detail in the picture you can see that Goya’s utilized his technique to created a contrast of shades between light and dark that truly encapsulate the strong emotional intensity of the horrifying scenes, demonstating powerful elements with imagery . In the picture you are able to there are many aspects beginning
This painting is classified as a romanticism painting as the artist has one job and that is to convey his point in his audience. Looking at the piece it has an equally balance of positive and negative space, the negative space being the dark black background in which Saturn looks like he emerging from it. The positive space is Saturn himself, which is where the emphasis is. In doing this, Goya was very successful in getting his message across that this was a dark time.
Art can be seen in every culture and country around the world in many different forms and styles. The only way to be able to see and experience different types and styles of art is to travel around the world and see it at museums. Unless a local museum features different artwork from around the world; there is a rare chance that a person may be able to appreciate different types of artwork from around the world. However, today’s technology has given more people a chance to appreciate art from around the world through virtual museums online.
During the Romantic Movement of the 1800’s in Europe, many notable artisans of both visual and auditory disciplines imbued emotion, mastery, and, in many cases, themselves in their work. Joseph Mallord William Turner, or more commonly known as J. M. W. Turner, is a perfect catalyst for comprehending the movement and it’s core values of putting emotion over objectivity to speak to the soul of the viewer rather than simply their eyes. His style of painting consists of portraying landscapes and adding color or elements to further build upon the feeling of the area, with one of his most ambitious works being the Fifth Plague of Egypt, which was regarded as nothing short of a flawless masterpiece by onlookers and critics alike.