Arcaic Vase Painting Museum Paper: Archaic Vase Painting When I visited The Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Greek vessel collection really caught my eye. After studying archaic vase painting in class, I was very excited to see some authentic examples of this art. I was most impressed with an attic red-figure kylix, otherwise not titled, from c. 480 B.C. This particular cup was si

Circle Stories Circle Stories “Circle Stories: A collaborative Project” by Riva Lehrer, is a collection of paintings and stories of artists who have some form of disability. The author, Riva Lehrer is disabled, as shown in her self-portrait. Riva Lehrer compiled this collaboration to give all society a compassionate insight into the lives of disabled people in the arts. Her coll

Giacometti Giacometti was a perfectionist. He tormented himself with his attention to detail and his desire to make every piece be as realistic and life like as he possibly could. As a result of Giacometti’s determination, out of all of the paintings he has done, he never considered one a finished piece of work. He shows his struggle in all of his paintings by isolating a certain area

Knight Death And The Devil In Durer’s copperplate engraving, Knight, Death, and Devil, it appears that the Knight is emerging victorious, both morally and literally over his two adversaries Death and the Devil. The Knight could be interpreted as Erasmus’s unwavering Christian soldier who mocks Death and the Devil, believing that he is protected as he does God’s will here in mortality on

Refinish Furniture How to Refinish a Piece of Furniture Sometimes furniture could use a facelift. So, before you put yours on the curbside for the trash man to pick it up, you might want to consider this. The fact of the matter is, as long as you are dealing with wood, you can always strip and refinish it. This gives you a brand new look (or you can restore the old look) and is not that

Reflective Essay All of my life I’ve wanted to be an officer of the law, more specifically an R.C.M.P. Though as my life went on and I grew older I realized that these goals maybe unreachable. So I set out in the world of finding a career that would satisfy my financial and family needs, and personal goals. In the next few paragraphs I will try to describe how my work history never co

Renaissance Art The ‘Age of Enlightenment’ is a term used to describe the trends in thought and letters in Europe and the American colonies during the 18th century, prior to the French Revolution of 1789-1799. The phrase was frequently employed by writers of the period itself, convinced that they were emerging from centuries of darkness and ignorance into a new age enlighten

Renaissance Art The Renaissance art The Renaissance brought new and amazing innovations in the way that artists painted. However these innovations took place in two different geographic regions and in two very different ways. In the North artists used oil and strived for a intense realism. In Italy, a new style emerged called Mannerism. Italian artist experimented with spatial sen

Renaissance Art History Question 1 Define a bottega and its function during the Renaissance. A Bottega is a Italian word for a studio or a workshop and/or the assistants in the artists workshop. It was also used to identify an object made within the studio of a master when his assistants/students work on it appears to dominate his own. Question 2 Briefly outline the method of fres

Richard Hamiltons Just What Is It... The piece entitled Just What is it That Makes Today’s Home So Different, So Appealing by Richard Hamilton is a collage of pictures from the early to mid-50’s. It is my belief that Hamilton attempted to predict the future of America by focusing on the shallow desires of human nature: sex, wealth, and superiority. His prediction was not far off in com

Monet And Friedrich The central image of both paintings is a church. This characteristic is one of the few similar characteristics the two paintings share. They practiced two different styles, painting in two different times, and enjoyed painting two different types of subjects. Toward the middle of the 1880’s, a few artists became disenchanted with the ideals of impressionism. Some

Richard Hamilton Richard Hamilton Richard Hamilton was born in 1922. He Finished at the Slade School of Art in London in 1951 after working in advertising during the forties. Hamilton’s style was established in 1956 when he finished his work, “Just what is it that makes today’s homes so appealing”. It was inspired by an Italian artist named Eduardo Paolozzi, who was known for incl

EUGENE DELACROIX: GREECE ON THE RUINS OF MISSOLONGHI Eugene Delacroix’s work entitled “Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi” is one of much drama and emotion. The composition is an oil painting on canvas. Delacroix shows the viewer a scene of a woman standing on a rocky cliff above water. An arm of a dead man is protruding from underneath the rocks, and in the immediate distance stands

Dadaism DADA The word Dada simply means rocking horse in its native tongue. But over the past century it has taken on a whole new meaning. In Zurich, Switzerland, 1916, the chance meeting of a collection of young artists sparked a group we know today as Dada. Most were young men retreating to neutral Switzerland during World War I. After meeting, they collaborated to develop a style

Retablos The Mexican American Experience This exhibit was particularly interesting to experience and learn about because I had previously never even heard of a retablo, and went in without a clue as to what I was about to engage in. My first stop was to read the history of the retable; it was intriguing to learn that they were made for the purpose of prayer and worship to the Saint

Review Of Rosand’s “Venetia Figurata: The Iconography Of A Myth” Review of Rosand’s “Venetia Figurata: the Iconography of a Myth” Venice personified, or Venetia, is probably the most influential mythical figure to shape an entire worlds view on one city in the whole of modern history. David Rosand explains this icon who embodied the beliefs and reputation of the Republic of Venice, th

Richard Serra Richard Serra Assignment Richard Serra is a sculptor whose work is highly criticized because of its simplistic nature. Richard Serra’s artistic ability isn’t a new realization, for his mother realized his creativity when he was a young child in elementary. She highly encouraged his artwork and introduced Richard as ‘the Artist.’ Richard then continued testing his abil

Roman Art Greek and Roman art gave Western art its classical foundation in form, line, structure, and meaning. These two periods gave a great deal of impact and inspiration to our arts and our lives. Many of our structures and sculptures have at least some form of influence from these classical periods. Some of the examples are Epidaurus Theater, The Colosseum, The Parthenon, Temple of F

Roman Art Vs. Greek Art Graves Western Civilization 10/29/00 Roman Art Vs. Greek Art Throughout history art has consistently reflected the cultural values and social structures of individual civilizations. Ancient art serves as a useful tool to help historians decipher some important aspects of ancient culture. From art we can determine the basic moral and philosophical beliefs of many a

Roman Empire Throughout history there have been many eras that both share similarities as well as differences in the areas of art and civilization. Two eras that illustrate this are the Roman Empire and the Byzantium Empire. In Rome there were three major art forms. The first was civil engineering, which involved building cities in an orderly fashion, in order to accommodate the need

Rubens Two painters that both worked under Spanish rule, Diego Velazquez and Peter Paul Rubens were considered two of the greatest painters in Europe. Diego Velazquez, being a more visual, rather then spiritual preferred, to paint portraits as well as genre scenes. His style one may consider calm, and easy on the eyes. Peter Paul Rubens on the other hand, painted highly sacred pieces cap

Salvador Dali Paintings in the surrealism period are difficult to interpret. Critics have stated that it is nearly impossible to explain in rational language what the significance of a surrealist piece of work is because seems to have been conceived in a state of hallucination. In Salvador Dali’s work, The Persistence of Memory, one can assume just that. This painting consists of relati

Salvador Dali Salvador Dali 1904-1989 Meditative Rose 1958 Spain Oil on canvas 280 x 350 Dali’s painting, Meditative Rose, shows a single vivid red rose that has beautifully fully bloomed. This rose sits in the middle of the picture and is the main focus of the painting. The color of the rose stands out so much since the background is an intense blue sky with w

Sandro Botticelli: The Renaissance Artist Sandro Botticelli, born Alessandro Mariano Filipepi, was the son of a tanner. He was born in Florence around 1445 and showed a talent for painting at a very early age. Botticelli was first apprenticed under a goldsmith named Sandro, from whom it is believed he derived his nickname. At the age of sixteen, he served an apprenticeship with the paint

Sebastiao Salgado Sebastiao Salgado and the Migrations Project Sebastiao Salgado was born the son of a cattle rancher in Minas Gerais, Brazil. During many years, he witnessed the social and economic rural transformation of the area, hundreds of farms with thousand families living on them being replaced by a few enormous farms in logic of monoculture agricultural production. Some of

SFMOMA The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was the first museum on the west coast dedicated to 20th century art. It first opened in 1935 but underwent a major renovation and opened a new museum facility designed by renowned Swiss architect Mario Botta in January of 1995. Botta used a lot of historical influences, but the most prevalent is definitely the influence of Roman architecture

Sistine Chapel The chapel was built between 1475 and 1483, in the time of Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere. A basic feature of the chapel itself, so obvious that it is sometimes ignored, is the papal function, as the pope's chapel and the location of the elections of new popes. Furthermore, the building was in some respects a personal monument to the Della Rovere family, since Sixtus IV saw t

Silk Silk Silk is a fabric that is used throughout the entire the world. It is a very elegant fabric that many people prize to have. The silk fabric can trace its origins back 4000 years in China. It has a very interesting myth related to it but for all that can be said it may also be the truth. Silk is farmed and manufactured in a method known as sericulture and it is an extensi

Silver Mine, Cobalt Silver Mine, Cobalt Well-chosen colors, definitive style, the theme represented in this painting is both the glorification of the “machine age”, yet also represents the infringement of industry upon humans and the natural world; the painting has two completely different sides, depending on how you look at the piece. In an analysis of a painting, the viewe

Olympia, Madame X, and Mme Matisse Between 1870 and 1910 Paris was a prominent cultural center in Europe. It was a time of great change in society, education, women’s roles, the separation of church and state, industrialization, colonization and society standings. Many artists moved to Paris to be part of the cultural scene. These turbulent times created an atmosphere in which some ar