Joan Miro was born on April 20, 1893, near Barcelona, Spain. He did poorly at school from an early age. When he was 8 years old, he started to draw regularly. He attended Lonja School of Fine Arts in 1907 with support from his parents and encouragements from his teachers. Miro worked briefly as a clerk before attending the Gali School of Art in 1912 in Barcelona. When Miro completed his art education, he started to create portraits and landscapes in the Fauve manner that emphasized brilliant and aggressive colors. He had his first one-man art show at Barcelona and was a success. He also had his one-man art show in Paris in 1921. His paintings of this period reflect cubist influences. Miro's most famous painting was called “The Farm”. He started painting in the summer of 1921 and completed it in winter of 1922. The painting was influenced by his family's summer house in Mont-Roig del Camp. This genre was a Naïve Art. He used magical realism to help understand the painting. One can see animals from inside the house and detailed objects on the painting. A large tree covers …show more content…
It was created between 1924-1925. The carnival in this title was based on the Mardi Gras, a carnival festival. The main character of the painting, Harlequin, can be seen wearing a disguise or mask for fun. A man dressed as a guitar is beside Harlequin and has a sad expression. The atmosphere in the painting is so joyful that even the sun is rising, peeking through the window to look at the carnival in plain sight. There are two cats playing with the ball of yarn in the lower right of the painting. The two human-looking creatures are swaying in the ladders that are in motion. The painting was created when Miro was having a hallucination caused by hunger. The setting in the painting was an indoor room where the carnival was held. This was Miro's first, and one of the world's famous, surrealistic
The artwork starts outside the barn. The left bottom of the painting holds a brown and white pig walking towards the barn in front of the resting dog lying just inside the barn’s open double doors. The pig’s ears are brown while its engorged nipples suggest it had piglets. As the pig strolls in front of the barn it encounters the remains of animal bones while patches of green grass and dirt highlight the way to the barn. On the opposite side of the pig, stands a reddish brown horse. The horse 's mane and tail are black. Its hind legs are white. The tip of the horse’s nose is white. The horse wears a saddle, bridle, halter, bit and reins. Its left hind leg rises as if ready to bolt. In the bottom right hand corner below the horse reads, “G.H. Durrie 1853.” While the area in front of the barn appears sparse, it is the barn and what occurs inside that is where the action
( Legends): Based on history (Myths): Based on religions, and (Fairy Tales): Fiction/ false/unreal Each of them have been passed down through the years and have had changes made to them to make them more interesting.
The man’s eyes are closed and his mouth is slightly open. The colours of the painting shades of blue, and there is a flatness to the painting. The only break in color is the brown guitar. Like other paintings at this time, the mas is assumed to be poor. There is an overall sense of depression and tragedy.
Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain, to an artist and museum curator, Jose Ruiz Blasco. As a young child he surprised his elders with his astounding artistic abilities; and, as Rachel Barnes points out in her introduction to Picasso by Picasso: Artists by Themselves, there seemed to be no doubt that Picasso would become a painter.
“It was necessary to fight so that Catalan, our language might be recognized as a cultural language” (“Miró”). In 1910 Miró’s parents bought a masia which is a sort of traditional farmstead of Catalonia, where the family has its roots on the paternal side. Miró described the masia in his painting The Farm of 1921-1922 (Figure1). Clement Greenburg a close friend of Miró who is also a critic, said that Miró’s art is based on ideas “of painting as an irrevocable two dimensional medium” (Munro 289).
Jehanne Romee, later known as Joan of Arc, was born in January of 1412 in France. According to Yeatts, a prominent historical author, Joan was born to a well-to-do peasant farmer, Jacques d’Arc and Isabelle Romee (5). Joan and her four siblings received a devout Catholic upbringing. Joan received no formal education and could barely read or write.
In 1792 he suffered from a serious illness which left him permanently deaf. This began to make him feel alienated and separated from everyone else, provoking him to paint the darkness and weakness of mankind. He began to paint his own version of caricatures, showing the subjects as he saw them.
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).
Her first self portrait, “Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress”, was her first serious piece which she painted in 1926. She painted it as a present for her boyfriend, Alejandro Gomez Arias. The artwork was fairly muted in colour and was quite a traditional European-style artwork. But, as Kahlo continued painting, her works transitioned from the academic style of European painting into the colourful and vibrant Mexican style.... ... middle of paper ...
Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga. Picasso’s father, who was a drawing teacher at the Escuela Provin cal de Bell Artes starting teaching Picasso how to paint. His father recognized and encouraged his son’s talent as an artist. His childhood and teenage drawings showed his father’s repertory, an interest with the bullfight and conventional academic work. He enrolled in his father’s drawing classes in 1892 and produced about fifteen oil portraits in 1895.He did experiments with caricatures and sketches in 1894. At fourteen years old in 1895, Picasso passed exams to enter the high level courses in classical art and still life. He studied the old master paintings in 1897 and he critized the teaching of the academia real de. During the next couple of years Picasso began to assert his independence and went out and found a studio and started ...
His approach was an organized, discipline, and theoretical painting base of knowing stories, and the style was line rather than color. The reason I picked the painting is because it does capture my attention of how messed up it is that these men would capture women and rape them. But in today society you see in the news every day in America they’re capture of women getting kidnap, rape and it captures my mind of how messed up this is. Nicolas is showing us these events that happen and you see this stuff in movies. The painting sends a message a powerful message by the emotion, color and theoretical. This painting is so historic they made a movie based on the painting in 1962 and 2006. Next is regarded as France finest artist is a women named Louise Mollin (1610-1696). Her painting “Still Life with Cherries, Strawberries, and Gooseberries” a famous painting that created a perfect balanced, simple composition and focusing the attention on the objects. The sizes, shapes and texture of the fruit and container form international contrasts. Her painting turns out to be simple but yet elegant and change the way of art. The colors of the fruit and bold and focuses just on the fruit other than having a painting doing something with war, death, and story behind it. This has change art and you can see in today painting something simple can grasp anyone
The painting is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionist's most celebrated masterpieces. The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. In the late 19th century, working class Parisians would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and eating galettes into the evening. LIGHTING UP THE TOWN
At first entering this show the viewer is over come by the dramatic dark background present in all the works. Rutledge uses a very concentrated light on his still-lives which contain pink flamingo lawn sculptures or fuzzy dice. He paints these subjects in a very classical style showing all the detail and reality of what he is using to tell his story. By using pink flamingos and fuzzy dice Rutledge brings his subjects to the level of absurd sentimentality. These items take a person away to another place like a tropical island or nightlife of Las Vegas. They are also treated as sacred items in the other paintings, with four different paintings of figures in white gloves holding a pink flamingo Beanie Baby. The use of the Beanie Baby flamingo is chosen to contemporize the plastic flamingo to fit into our modern culture today. The figures are also very isolated in dark backgrounds like the Melanesian natives in their Western culture. Rutledge explains further by saying:
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.
“The Burning Giraffe” is a surrealist oil painting on canvas in 1937. It is a vertically orientated painting, spanning 35cm x 27cm. In the foreground, there are two women. The first is dressed in a silky turquoise dress. Individual brushstrokes are visible on her dress, which adds to the perception of a silky dress.