Chapters 4/5 Homework: The influence of Japanese prints For my response, I chose the group of images by Hiroshige and Vincent van Gogh entitled “Plum Park in Kameido” and “Orchard in Blossom”. When looking at both images there is a series of lines ranging from the tree trunks, to the limbs and twigs of the tree. I would say that the only implied line in the images is the way the trees are stretched up to the sky. In Vincent’s image there could also be an implied line when looking at the way the rakes
coloring and innocent features of the young boy showed Taikan’s originality. The skillful use of line and coloring in this painting was acquired when he studied his old masters’ works and made copies of them. Taikan chose the figure of a young boy standing to represent his ideal of Zen Buddhism, selflessness. He was awarded the Copper Medal in the second exhibition of the Japan Painting Society. Another famous work painted by Taikan Yokoyama is called The Wheel of Life (see appendix B). Taikan drew this
Meiji Period 1868-1912 Meiji Period, also known as Meiji restoration, was a turning point for Japan as it created equality amongst all Japanese people. The new Japanese government (after the failure of the Tokugawa government) successfully broke down the boundaries between the social classes, established human rights such as the religious freedom, and took all the land that belonged to the former feudal lords (daimyo) and returned it to the government. With an effort to expand to acquire Western
great natural beauty. mountains and hills cover about 70% of the country. IN fact, Japanese islands consist of the rugged upper part of a great mountain range that rises from the floor of the North Pacific Ocean. Jagged peaks, rocky gorges, and thundering mountain waterfalls provide some of the country's most spectacular scenery. Thick forests thrive on mountansides, adding to the scenic beauty of the Japanese islands. Forests cover about 68% of the country's land. Japan lies on an extremely
flare and talent. Most of his paintings are either oil on canvas or oil on board. He traveled and painted extensively in Europe and also did a series of paintings documenting the building of the Panama Canal. In some cases he took his easel and paints right into the canal excavation sites to capture the subject he had in mind. His later works included scenes from Mexico and California where he was a noted member of the plein air movement. I have favored Impressionist painting for as long as I can remember
He never abandoned his Impressionist painting style until his death in 1926 when Fauvism and Cubism were en vogue and when abstract painting came into existence. First Painting Lessons Claude Monet was born in Paris, but grew up in Le Havre. His first artistic output was caricatures when he was a little boy. Close to his home was a little shop owned by a marine painter, Mr. Eugene Boudin. He recognized the talent of the boy and gave him his first painting lessons. Claude's family was not very
many European paintings in the 18th to 19th century; I chose to discuss the artwork by the incredible Claude-Oscar Monet. Claude-Oscar Monet’s Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur, 1865 is an oil painting of a seascape on a canvas. The Parisian artist is considered one of the most influential artists in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Monet became affiliated with numerous artists throughout his
global trade in the seventeenth century. Using six paintings of Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, the writer examines the impact of changing international relations, particularly in the realm of trade, on art. The title chapter of the book discusses the painting called Officer and the Laughing Girl and analyzes how the painting opens up window to the global trade connections of the seventeenth century. According to the author, a painting is different from a photograph in that the former is
The primary focus of this exhibition is Archibald J. Motley’s Mending Socks, an oil painting created in 1924 currently located at the Ackland Art Museum. Depicting Motley’s grandmother across a 43.875 x 40 inches (111.4 x 101.6 cm) frame, Mending Socks provokes a sense of familiarity and comfort in its soothing imagery. Motley’s grandmother appears as the off-center grounding point of the piece, providing a strong, soothing, and familiar image of a relaxed family setting. Behind her, however, are
composition in as series), created in 1906, is an oil painting of the post-Impressionism that was unconventional in the sense that it was created not conforming to the 19th century method. Cezanne disregarded the fashionable painting trend which pressured painters. His interest in depicting the nude and exploring the relationships of people in his work was inspired by images of cherubs and mystical creatures of the Renaissance. The mystical paintings by Botticelli, Titian and Rubens exerted strong influenced
O’keefe who mainly painted abstract flowers this was a new style for me as I have never tried drawing in abstract style before, after this we did two paintings in acrylics one of shells and one piece of corn and around the edge of the paintings I then collaged in the background. This was a new way of doing backgrounds for me, as I have never tried using painting and colaging together. We have also tried a picture of natural objects with pastels then used chalk to make a grey background. I didn’t really
Japanese Art Japan’s Art, although sometimes over looked has evolved through many different periods. Its simplest forms in the Archaic period and last on its more complex period the Ego Period. Even though some skeptics believe that Japanese art can not compare to the art of the Greeks or Romans. Japanese Art yet simple is refreshing and has left Japan with wonderful shrines, paintings and traditions. The periods of Japanese art are the Archaic, Ask, Heian, Kamakura, Askikaga and the Ego
In Timothy Clark’s, Utamaro’s Portaiture, he stars off by speaking about Rembrandt’s Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels. To begin, he gives background of the painting, then moves into a brief description of the paining. He then begins to describe Utamaro’s design ‘Fancy-free Type. The comparison of the two paintings was deliberately put in the beginning of the paper. Clark wanted readers to note that it is right and wrong to compare Rembrandt to Utamaro. Throughout the beginning of the article, Clark
Mr. Grein had remarked on the London Sunday Times that:” the English are not artists in the dram, nor in the other arts, but they are eminent artists in living and in the ordering of a home”. In the story of Pride and Prejudice, characters’ daily chat are always surrounding house decoration or beautiful houses too, several plots are drew from the conversation about house, for example, when Mrs. Darcy came to Elizabeth’s place to tell her to keep away from her son, she ask Elizabeth to lead her a
In 1912, artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner completed his painting Two Woman. Two Woman was a painting that had much depth to it, meanings that one does not notice upon first glance. Thirty years later in 1942, famed American artist Edward Cooper was placing his finishing touches on his masterpiece Nighthawks, which was a painting that expressed both the general feelings of the time as well as Cooper's overall life experience. Both Two Woman and Nighthawks have much in common due to their personalities
Donatello, etc. Often those very people go to art schools to study the arts and advanced in their careers, building a style that is worth millions of money today. In art museums, galleries and all over the world, the art collections consist of various paintings, sculptures, photographs, and even live art or nonfunctional elements. However, frequently other art styles go unnoticed. That style being graffiti. Graffiti is underrated in the art world due to its history of vandal. The act of performing graffiti
more plausibly, the 1970s. Citing prominent economic historians, Nicholas Kristof asserts that globalization actually started in the second half of the 19th Century, when steamships, the telegraph, the railroad, and European, North American, and Japanese empire-builders brought humankind into a single densely interwoven community of trade, investment, culture, and political rivalry for the first time. One of the founders of world-system theory, Immanuel Wallerstein, traces the invention of capitalism
believed, geisha are far from being prostitutes; they are more accurately High-class Japanese entertainers. Arthur Golden shows the reader a completely different look on life in looking into the lives of geisha in mid-twentieth century Gion and sends a very strong message distinguishing the geisha and the prostitutes. Arthur Golden, throughout Memoirs of a Geisha, creates a perfect image of the city of Gion, the last Japanese city to still have Geisha the followed the old traditions. Golden describes the
propaganda video I came across was of an American citizen pretending to be a Japanese man in a very racially discriminating way. The man was obviously a fake Japanese man who was made to look Japanese by using stereotypes and donning a very obviously fake Japanese accent. [“My Japan” Pg. 2, sec. 2] The video went on to try and convince Americans at home that Japan was to strong and formidable opponent in the war using Japanese newsreels. By using stereotypes and fear (see “Types of Propaganda”), America
policy of Unconditional Surrender. Elegant Violence: Japanese v. American views on Warfare To the Japanese, the concept of Unconditional Surrender was a nightmare. The Japanese government had instilled in its people the idea that Unconditional Surrender to American forces would involve horrendous tortures and degradations. Whether or not the Japanese government actually believed their own war propaganda, there was concern among the Japanese leadership that Unconditional Surrender would mean the