Impressionism was the late 19th-century art movement that sought to capture a fleeting moment, thereby conveying the elusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions (Kleiner, 2013, p. 1087). In late 1841 and the beginning 1843, the invention of paint in metal tubes was invented. This allowed the artists to transport the paints and paint out in the outdoors and paint instead of being shut off in the studio (Sayre, 2011, p. 1020). The three painter of this era that is essential to understanding this period is Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and James Whistler.…
Spain has produced some of the world-class painters. Francisco de Goya and Pablo Picasso exist among the ranks of Spain’s most internationally acclaimed artist. These two influential artists use their artwork as a platform to protest against social injustices. Goya and Picasso, works can be understood to address Social Protest Art, but artist handles the subject in their own unique way. Goya and Picasso were both prolific artists of their times, offering works of great visual travesty of the glories of warfare and bloody victory.…
Childe Hassam has been a well-known American Impressionist artist in America and Europe. Called the “American Monet” Hassam was famous for his early illustrations, but more importantly his landscape paintings and large cityscapes. During the late 1890s Hassam began to paint nostalgic scenes of women that brought emotion from viewers. The piece chosen for this case study, Improvisations, is one of the first of these new scenes that Hassam painted. This creates an importance to this particular painting as it begins to create a shift in how Hassam painted through the rest of his career. Although he didn’t completely stop painting landscapes, there was a shift towards painting women in homes that were taking part in activities that only the wealthy would participate in.…
In this essay I'm going to investigate two portrait painters, Alison Watt and Pablo Picasso. I will be writing about their lives and influences.…
2. How does the work attempt to express the personal views of the Artist? The artwork automatically portrays that the artist likes to play around with her artworks, and doesn’t make them in an ordinary manner. It shows us the abstract and unusual side to art.…
In this painting, Picasso forgot all known form and depictions of classic art. He used distortion of a women's form and geometric forms in an new way, which challenged the idealized representations of female beauty that was expected in paintings. It also shows the influence of African art on…
Wiley’s piece communicates stability with straight horizontal and vertical lines. For example, in the young African-American man his broad shoulders, attire and unfamiliar posture challenges the viewers. Overall, it communicates a sense of power and authority. Wiley also challenges the traditional law of space. The space is shallow. The overlapping of flowers on the male figure stands out with a light blue background. It gives the male figure an illusion of height and width. Wiley shows ranges of blue tones in his jeans and brown tones in his skin. The painting has both primary and secondary colors; such as, the yellow and orange in his shirt and the red hat he’s holding in his left hand. Also, in the background he uses yellows, blues, greens and reds in the flowers. His painting has many highlights; for example, the highlights in the male figures right hand and arm, chin and neck, right pants leg, the hat and the top of his shoes. In addition, there are also many cast shadows; such as, in the males figures left pants leg, top of the hat, inside his right arm and the whole right side of his face. Wiley manipulates the paint to create visual texture of baggy, more ridged and tapered look in male figures pants. The floral motif exemplifies a feeling of movement all over and a natural pattern that are not exactly alike. When you look at this painting,…
Energy in movement and quiet placidity seen from the eyes of a fly on the wall. Edgar Degas' Ballet Rehearsal, 1874 oil on canvas is twenty three inches by thirty three inches (Honour et al. 2005). The painting utilizes a sophisticated pallet and whimsical impressionist painting style to enchant its viewer. One of a series examining dancers, the painting of ballet students in rehearsal conveys Degas' knowledge and fascination with the human form as well as his mastery of formal elements of art. The configuration of the art work ponders a contrast between background and foreground utilizing dualities such as light and dark, energy and serenity, and clarity to obscurity. Line and space pulls the audience's attention across the entirety of the composition. The impressionistic style successfully captures a moment in time, saturated with chaotic elements caught un-posed and half seen, as they are in real life. Ballet Rehearsal's composition successfully blends line, color, light, shadow, and space in order to build an impressive example of visual art.…
It is in his concepts of man versus himself, his studying of light, capturing a moment and use of large shapes to flatten space that makes Edgar Degas an impressionist. In comparison to his peers, Degas has a tight style of painting and defined, characterized, figures; yet, it is not style that defines impressionism:…
“Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange, hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires” this quote by Pablo Picasso allows the audience to delve deeper into his emotions and what has finally persuaded Picasso to enter the art world. Art reflects the social values of a particular time and place; this can be seen throughout many of Picasso’s artworks throughout time, and how he and his techniques have changed over the period of his career.…
When an artist put their heart and souls into a piece of work there is always someone who has the job to criticize the artistic body of work. Proving and pointing out to the world that there are flaws and inadequacies. This paper too will be criticized as will for its lack of whatever is not being said. Therefore, Picasso wanted to keep his mind like a child because it should not matter what he painted just as long as he captured your attention with his bold color choices, sharp lines that display’s his unique style of cubism.…
As we all know, cultures and events shaped the world were being mirrored in the world of art. From Impressionism to Mexican Muralism, art has experienced lots of movements and it is easy to get confused regarding the similarities and difference between Impressionism and Mexican Muralism. In this essay, I will clear those things from two paintings: Camille Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre(Afternoon, Sunshine)and Diego Rivera’s A Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park.…
As portrayed in the scenery, the dancer gestures to an empty side on the right side of the stage with her left arm. The painting is a unique balance of color, figure and movement. It has a fine composition fashioned from six different pieces of paper of which Degas added as he supposedly changed and enlarged the painting design.…
The artist utilized oil and multiple layers of gesso on canvas to create his three dimensional piece of art. The Dancer At Pigalle’s represents a woman who dances in the spotlight on a stage. Her dress is spinning around in a circular flow. In this work, Servini is using a futurist style of painting. I have a feeling that I am inside the stage watching this woman performing ballet dancing. The canvas is developed with layers of plaster to be able to represent the dancer’s motion and dress by projecting them out into the viewer’s land. Light and environment act concurrently on the forms of movement. The work is a colorful representation of the body and the cloth of the woman as depicted. Her dress is pink and is printed with brown hearts. Her shoes are brown. She has black hair. While the painting does not reflect the real mood of the dancer, the bright colors and the gestures that the artist used on this painting reveals the happiness of this…
- Degas was influenced by Japanese prints in composition and line. He did not paint women in kimonos in his art. Rather than painting Japanese subjects like his fellow artists he took on Japanese techniques and qualities.…