Nouveau During the late 1800s, a new art spread throughout Europe and major American cities. This movement, known as Art Nouveau, was an art movement and style of decoration and architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Artists and designers who created Art Nouveau aimed to transform their world by challenging convention, based on sources such as plant forms, Cel

The Scream Edvard Munch was born on December 12 1863 in Loten Norway. He moved to Christiana (Oslo) and spent most of his childhood there. Both his mother and his oldest sister suffered from tuburculosis and died before he reached the age of fourteen. At eighteen he became more serious about his art and started attending art school. Edvard finally found a release for the pain he felt

The Value Of Art There are several ways we put a value on art. The first way is simply material value. A particular piece of art may be considered valuable because of the material used in creating it. For example, the ancient Egyptians frequently used gold to represent the sun and divinity. Ancient Greek artists used bronze. This was valuable not simply because of the way it looked, but

The Unmasking The Unmasking “Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of it’s success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world—the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe it’s strange, special air” (Bernstein). An artist must create a different universe, one that surpasses culture, time, and personal philosophies.

Egyptian Influence Of Greek Sculpture The period of Archaic Greece from c. 600-480 B.C. was marked by continued prosperity, which had began a nearly a century before. With this, an interest in commerce intensified as rivalries between the city-states did. Commercial enterprise and competition brought these Greek states in contact with other foreign lands in the Mediterranean, like the

Art And Law In today’s society artist feel that they should have free reign that would entitle them to create anything they feel necessary and depict whatever they desire without any regard to the content, imagery, or morality of their work. They believe it would hinder their work to have limitations placed upon them and their artwork. They hold the opinion that they should be able to

Frida Kahlo I chose to watch the movie Frida. Frida Kahlo was one of Mexico’s most famous artists. She was known for her candid portraits depicting the emotional and physical pain she experienced throughout her life. Frida is about the struggles we face throughout our lives, and how we can overcome these hardships with love and friendship on our side. As a young adult, Frida was

Ansel Adams Ansel Adams was born into a wealthy family in San Francisco in 1902. He was first trained as a boy to be a concert pianist and pursued this career for much of his life. He became interested in photography in 1916 when his family went on a vacation to Yosemite National Park. He had a brownie box camera, recently invented by George Eastman, making it possible for amateur photog

Correspondance I chose to view Toby Kahn’s work called Correspondence. Before I went to see the picture I was imagining something colorful, with a lot of red tones to it. I thought it would stress to the knowledge of understanding and communicating. This piece art was very interesting because it is so simply designed that it difficult to understand what the picture is actually about.

Thomas Kinkade - Geniune Or Poser Thomas Kinkade, artist or businessman' This is the question that the three reviews by Karal Ann Marling, Brooke Cameron, and Mark Pohlad are basically arguing. Kinkade’s paintings and other works usually consist of a little house with the lights on. His work gives a sense of light and warmth at affordable prices. “His franchise earned more than $2 bil

Titian I have chosen to write about a man, who many consider the greatest 16th century Venetian painter. Tiziano Vecellio, better know as Titian, was born in Pieve di Cadore which is located north of Venice Italy. The year of his birth is uncertain. Titian, by his own account was born in 1477. But most scholars place his birth sometime around 1487. Throughout his long and wonderful caree

Thomas Couture “Decadence Of The Romans“ The name of this painting is “Decadence of the Romans,” and the painter is Thomas Couture. This painting was done around 1879, and is located the RISD Museum of Art. It was done with oil paint on a canvas, and the dimensions are 16 13/16”X26 ½. The composition of this painting is based on a central point. Around this point or horizontal line a

Marc Quinn ‘Self’ Marc Quinn ‘Self’ 1991; size 81.9 x 24.75 inches ‘Self’ is a blood head sculpture. The art movement, which Marc Quinn belongs to, is modern art. The piece Self is a very modern piece it was made in 1991. The first thing that strikes me about this piece is that it is unusual! The first thought that came into my head was how much blood did they use' And had anyone ev

Camera Techniques To optimize the quality of one’s portrait photos, a photographer must combine a series of camera techniques. A photo is a piece of art used to capture a moment in time. For a photographer to beautify the appearance of the photos he takes, he must know how his camera works. The photographer must adjust his aperture to suit the type of film he has and know how to lo

Bierstadt Withrow 1 Albert Bierstadt was an American painter of German birth. His career spanned the entire second half of the 19th century, and emerged as the first technically sophisticated artist to travel to the Far West of America (Turner, 43). On this trip, he recorded his experiences through sketches and stereoscopic photographs of Indians, emigrants and members of the survey

Dana Tiger Dana Tiger Dana Tiger has established herself as one of America’s leading contemporary artist. Dana was born in 1961 and is of Creek/Seminole and Cherokee descent. She is the daughter of Jerome and Peggy tiger and has a brother named Chris and a sister named Lisa. Dana’s father was a nationally claimed artist until he died of an accidental self inflicted gunshot wound to t

Donald Locke Donald Locke: “The Road to El Dorado: 12 Years in Atlanta” From now through April 4, 2003, the City Hall Gallery East features artist Donald Locke and his exhibition “The Road to El Dorado: 12 Years in Atlanta”. In Locke’s one-man exhibition at the gallery, part of its ongoing Master Series, initiated to honor artists of longstanding distinction, various bodies of work

Alber Bierstadt Withrow 1 Albert Bierstadt was an American painter of German birth. His career spanned the entire second half of the 19th century, and emerged as the first technically sophisticated artist to travel to the Far West of America (Turner, 43). On this trip, he recorded his experiences through sketches and stereoscopic photographs of Indians, emigrants and members of the s

Fashion As Art One of the most celebrated and influential Fashion designers Italy has ever born. His fashion house being reported to be the most financially successful that Italy has produced. His remarkable haute couture designs are known throughout the world for their timeless sophistication and elegance. His first fashion headline was made in the mid 1970’s when he reinvented the

Humanties Primary Source Analysis of Art “The Maids of Honor” by Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velasquez is a canvas painting created in 1656-57. This piece of art is rather dark, Velasquez is controlling what it is that you see. He uses natural light such as from a window and shows how some parts of a room may be seen and other parts not. We see three maids of honor dressed in elabora

Dali Vs Miro As World War I came to an end the Dada movement was engulfed by a new movement called Surrealism. Surrealist ideas often conform to anti-logical depictions under a subconscious influence. Artists in this school may use elements from dreams, visions, memories, and psychological distortions that are drawn upon through the use of familiar objects such as childhood icons. Salvad

Art History Whether it be writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, or photographers, artists all over the world have striven to show people their views of the world, of people, and even of the universe itself. Throughout history the creative urge of man to present to fellow men a different perspective or representation of life-or even the afterlife-has surfaced time and time again in th

Periods In Greek Art During the three periods of Greek art, the styles and characteristics of female sculpture greatly changed and evolved. Details in the figures were greatly increased with more lifelike appearance. Eventually, the figures looked almost real with intricate facial expressions and poses. In the Archaic period, the figure, Peplos Kore, depicts the female figure as havi

Gérard, François Gérard, François 1. Life and work. He spent most of his childhood in Rome. His talent as an artist revealed itself early and during this period he acquired a love of Italian painting and music, which he never lost. In 1782 his family returned to Paris, where, through the connections of his father’s employer Louis-Auguste le Tonnelier, Baron de Breteuil, Minister of the

Influences Of Archaic Greek Statuary The period of Archaic Greece from c. 600-480 B.C. was marked by continued prosperity, which had began a nearly a century before. With this, an interest in commerce intensified as ri-valries between the city-states did. Commercial enterprise and competition brought these Greek states in contact with other foreign lands in the Mediterranean, like the

Starry Night “The Starry Night,” by Vincent Van Gogh is an example of an expressionist’s perspective of an unusual, chaotic, star-studded night, above a small town located in the middle of a hilly landscape. At the bottom left of the painting, pressed up close, there is a dark, flame-like, tree that twists upwards into the sky, almost as if to divide the heavens. In the center of town,

The Great Pyramids At Giza Man fears Time, yet Time fears the Pyramids Arab proverb Among the seven wonders of the world, the Great Pyramids of Giza are the most mysterious and awe inspiring. Historians and Archaeologists have spent much time and effort finding the answer to the question: How were they built' The Great Pyramids of Giza were constructed during the fourth dyna

A King And His Queen So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man (Genesis 2:21-23). The bond between a man and a woman represents something special, even dating back to the book of

Henry Ossawa Tanner Henry Ossawa Tanner was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1859, to Sarah Miller Tanner and Benjamin Tucker Tanner. Henry is best known for his paintings of everyday African American life and for his from the bible. His most well known work is The Banjo Lesson painted in 1893, at the Hampton University Museum, in Hampton, Virginia. When he was 13 years old, Henry wat

Art And The Mass Media The electronic age of the museum is emerging. As "virtual" galleries and museums are available on the Internet, "real" museums are also adding electronic components and enhancements to their inventory. Some of the same problems museums have always faced - need for clarification, isolation of art pieces, displacement from culture and time, and the loss of meaning a