Milkshake
Not for Girls:
Unknown:
I like this artwork because of its dimensionality and the fact that it is hanging. I like the textures of the art work which aren't smooth and they look like skin.
Tuesday 9 April 2013
Milkshake
Milkshake
Not for Girls:
Unknown:
I like this artwork because of its dimensionality and the fact that it is hanging. I like the textures of the art work which aren't smooth and they look like skin.
Monday 8 April 2013
Renaissance
Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance was the most earliest form of the general Renaissance art Movement, an era in which there were a lot of cultural changes and achievements that began in Italy during the 14th century and lasted until the 16th century, marking the movement between Medieval and into the Early Modern Europe. The term Renaissance is in essence a modern one that came into currency in the 19th century, in the work of historians such as Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt.
Although the origins of a movement that was limited largely to the literate culture
of intellectual attempt and patronage can be traced to the earlier parts of the 14th century, many aspects of the Italian culture and society remained largely Medieval; the Renaissance movement did not come into full swing until the end of the century.
The word renaissance (Rinascimento in Italian) means "rebirth" in French, and the era is best known for the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity after the period that Renaissance humanists labeled the Dark Ages.
Exhibits Collection -- Renaissance. 2013. Exhibits Collection -- Renaissance. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/. [Accessed 08 April 2013].
Fine Arts Exhibit
Fine-Arts Exhibition
The exhibition in Fine-Arts museum was one that I call ''plain'' in the sense that the artworks are great but in contrast with the modern ones they lack the innovation and the touch of colors and the emotion in the viewers eye. The busts have a lot of detail on them which kind of makes them come alive.
Contemporary Face of Faith
Contemporary Face of Faith
This exhibition is an example of abstract art and how each individual expresses and projects his art (and thoughts) on to the canvas. The way the paintings are done are very interesting because the outlines and the color schemes used for the works are simply great because of how colors blend well with each other and the different forms used in the artworks. What I really liked in this exhibition are the colors and the curves applied to make the faces.
Forces Exhibition
Forces by George Muscat
The artworks in this exhibition are very nice
because they show great detail in the anatomy of the humans. Personally I like
the colors applied to the ‘’female body artworks’’ because they blend together
so well it goes very gentle on the eyes of the viewer.
This artwork is very nicely done because the color scheme is very lightly toned and the graphics on the body look like tattoo's and the tonality blends well with the color.
This artwork in my opinion shows the diversity of many people in one single artwork in the sense of different forms of the faces, lengths, difference in the noses etc.
This artworks is smooth yet nice because of the textures and the way the glazes have been applied to the artifact.
I like this one because the fish are very realistic and it gives a sense of motion to the viewer because of the on-going state of the fish.
Rococo
Rococo Art Movement
Rococo was an 18th century movement that began in France. The Rococo movement began as an artistic controversy between the importance of drawing and the importance of colour. The style of Rococo reflects this controversy with bright colours and amazing detail. Rococo belonged to the wealthy and powerful of France.
Francois Boucher painted Rococo. In Hercules and Omphale, Boucher shows another aspect of Rococo. The erotic and sensual themes. In this painting, Hercules and Omphale are locked in a sensual embrace. Boucher shows his attention to detail. He also uses classical elements which are similar to those of the Renaissance in human figures.
Rococo played out in different parts of Europe such as Germany and Italy. In France, salons of hotels and private homes featured Rococo paintings and interior work for the upper class. In Germany Rococo survives in churches. However, in Italy this style is mostly captured in furniture.
Rococo and Art History . 2013. Rococo and Art History . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.arthistory.net/artstyles/rococo/rococo1.html. [Accessed 08 April 2013].
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry is a British artist, known for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. Perry's vases are made of classical forms and are decorated with bright and vibrant colors, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003.
Perry started his education with pottery lessons in September 1983 at the Central Institute where he was taught by a certain Sarah Sanderson. His first exhibition was in London in December 1983. For a while he made glazed plates with text because he could not make anything else. He was never motivated by a desire to work in clay rather he chose pottery because studio ceramics was in "thrall to a formal idea". Film having proved an inadequate medium for communicating his ideas about gender and society, Perry found in pottery an effective alternative because of the ways artificiality could be deployed to make the innocent or honest pot have a purpose and mean something.
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam mounted a solo exhibition of his work in 2002. It was partly for this work that he was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003, the first time it was given to a ceramic artist. He attended the award ceremony dressed as a girl which was his alter-ego Claire, wearing a little girl party frock. Perry was accompanied by his family.
Grayson Perry - Artist's Profile - The Saatchi Gallery. 2013. Grayson Perry - Artist's Profile - The Saatchi Gallery. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/grayson_perry.htm. [Accessed 08 April 2013].
Grayson Perry | Artists | Victoria Miro. 2013. Grayson Perry | Artists | Victoria Miro. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/_12/. [Accessed 08 April 2013].
Augustus Pugin
Augustus Pugin
In
Pugin’s opinion, Classical architecture is the long established Gothic or to
use his own words “Pointed” or “Christian” architecture.
While
Augustus Pugin was designing the Palace of the Westminster he was also
converting a return to the Gothic style of architecture through his writings.
For the artist, the Gothic superiority of his work on the new Palace of
Westminster did not only represent a public statement of a wedded architectural
expression but also a spiritual one. In 1835 Pugin converted to Catholicism.
That is why his furnishing designs mirror many features of a pre-Reformation
Catholic church. ‘The reign of classicism represented to him the “current secularism
and moral degeneracy” of England and Wales and of which the Anglican Church had
supported.’
Pugin
noticed that the values and artefacts of society were all intertwined. By
promoting the dominant style of Gothic or “Christian Architecture” for the new
Palace of Westminster he was sending a message to the people. The message he
was trying to send is to go back to the traditional Catholic faith and to the
times which were moral, honest and truthful.
With both
his writings and his work on the new Palace of Westminster we see Pugin on a
mission to prove that Gothic architecture is the way forward for the 19th
century.
Augustus
Pugin’s work on the furnishings of the Palace of Westminster would certainly
have been seen as a dissent from the contemporary Classical Architecture.
Augustus Charles Pugin: Information from Answers.com. 2013. Augustus Charles Pugin: Information from
Answers.com. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.answers.com/topic/augustus-charles-pugin-1. [Accessed 08
April 2013].
The Pre-Raphaelites
Pre-Raphaelites
The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later on the three founders were joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form the seven-member "brotherhood".
The group's main intention was to change art by refusing to accept the Mannerist norms which were first adopted by Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood wanted to use and imply the abundant detail in the surroundings, intense colors and the artworks of Quattrocento Italian art.
Through the PRB, the brotherhood announced in hinted form the arrival of a new movement in British art. The group continued to accept the concepts of history painting and the imitation of the living word through art. The Pre-Raphaelites defined themselves as a movement which restructured certain aspects of art because they brought change where it was needed. The group's discussions and meetings were recorded in a specific journal called the Pre-Raphaelite Journal.
Pre-Raphaelites: An Introduction. 2013. Pre-Raphaelites: An Introduction. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/prb/1.html. [Accessed 08 April 2013].
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde | Tate. 2013. Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde | Tate. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/pre-raphaelites-victorian-avant-garde. [Accessed 08 April 2013].
George Seurat
George Seurat
Seurat was a painter and the founder of the 19th-century French school of Neo-Impressionism who specialized in projecting light by using tiny brushstrokes of colors which later became known as the Pointillism. By using this he managed to create huge compositions with tiny and detached strokes of pure color of which it was too small to be recognized when looking at the entire work but making his paintings real and with brilliance.
He spent his life studying color theories and the effects of different linear structures. With his 500 drawings alone they established Seurat as a well-known artist but he will mostly be remembered for his technique called pointillism which uses small dots or strokes of color to create subtle changes in form.
Georges Seurat - The complete works. 2013. Georges Seurat - The complete works. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.georgesseurat.org/. [Accessed 08 April 2013].
WebMuseum: Seurat, Georges. 2013. WebMuseum: Seurat, Georges. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/seurat/. [Accessed 08 April 2013].
Owen Jones
Owen Jones
Owen was the son of a Welsh
antiquary, was an architect and an interior designer. During his studies he
studied with the architect Lewis Vulliamy and then he enrolled the Royal
Academy schools. After a European tour which led him to sketch and paint the
Alhambra, the Moorish palace. Jones is best known for his Grammar of Ornament (1856) which came to be regarded as a
masterpiece, but he specialized as a color printer in the gift book beloved by
the Victorians.
Owen Jones started working for Thomas De La Rue
A
higher ambition: Owen Jones (1809–74) - Victoria and Albert Museum. 2013. A higher ambition: Owen Jones (1809–74) -
Victoria and Albert Museum. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/a-higher-ambition-owen-jones/. [Accessed 08
April 2013].
Essay on Contemporary Artist: Roberto Lazzarini
Robert Lazzarini
Robert Lazzarini is
an American artist who lives and works in the
city of New
York. He has been exhibiting
nationally and internationally since 1995 and he is included in major
collections such as the Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.;
the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;
and the Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis.
At first he was a sculptor,
Lazzarini is best known for using and making common objects that have been
subjected to multiple distortions and uses of abstraction which have the effect
of confusing visual and space, or rather complicating the space of pictures and
the space of things and even the projections of the work. Lazzarini also changes
the physical surroundings in which these objects are seen—the ground to the
object's "figure"—which adds to the confusing effect that the work aims to project
on its audience. His works offer no ideal point of view and that is how it
amazes its viewers to walk around the work, Lazzarini's sculptures trace their
lineage back to the 1960s because of their sense of minimalism and
to the introduction of phenomenology into
art. All of Lazzarini's sculptures are created out of the same materials as the
things on which they are based; for example, the skulls (2001), which Lazzarini first
exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, were created out of real bones
that were put in a cast.
Some of his works:
Robert
Lazzarini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Robert Lazzarini - Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lazzarini. [Accessed 08
April 2013].
Impressionism
Impressionism Art Movement
The Impressionism art movement was founded in the late 19th
century (roughly 1874) by a group of artists, sculptors and printmakers who made
an exhibition that launched the Impressionism art style. Some of the founding
members were Monet, Pissarro and Degas and many others. They sought to view and
project art in a non-traditional way like… giving it un-finished looks, using
different techniques such as the ‘’impasto’’ (a technique which involves
applying the paint directly on the artwork with a palette knife), pointillist
brush-strokes (technique were brush strokes are applied in an illusionistic way
to project the image in the viewer’s mind), short and thick strokes of paint to
capture the light and essence of the world. One particular technique was the
avoidance of the black and dark tones because in Impressionism dark tones were
achieved by mixing the colors together.
WebMuseum: Impressionism. 2013. WebMuseum: Impressionism. [ONLINE]
Available at: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/impressionism/. [Accessed 03
April 2013].
Impressionism: Art and Modernity | Thematic Essay |
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013. Impressionism: Art and Modernity | Thematic
Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
[ONLINE] Available at:http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm.
[Accessed 03 April 2013].
Romanticism
Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic Era) is an artistic (and a cultural movement) which its origins started way back in the end of the 18th century and from Europe. The movement was used as a reaction to the Industrial Age and as a rebellion against the politics and social issues of that time. The influence of Romanticism on art was that the artists began drawing landscapes containing storms, wild landscapes and Gothic structures. The traits of romanticism were those of featuring great simplicity and natural opposite of the styles that came before romanticism such as the Renaissance, Neo-classical etc… which favored grandeur, complexity and details.
Romanticism [ONLINE] Available at: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html
Romanticism- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Romanticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism. [Accessed 02 March 2013].
Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya
Francesco Goya was a painter and a printmaker that lived in the Romanticism Era and was a court painter for the Spanish Crown. Goya is known best for his artworks depicting scenes of great violence like his famous “Los desastres de la Guerra” in which he paints and projects the Napoleonic war in Spain. Goya had a house in called Quinta del Sordo and in this house he had his 14 ‘’Black Paintings’’ which one of them was “Saturn devouring his child” (which people believed it was symbolizing the politics of Spain in that time) and also “Witches’ Sabbath”. These paintings have references of witchcraft and war on them. He is also known to be ‘’the first modern artist’’ because from his view the artist should use vision rather than tradition.
"Saturn Devouring his Son"
"Witches' Sabbath"
Francisco De Goya - The complete works. 2013. Francisco De Goya - The complete works. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.franciscodegoya.net/. [Accessed 05 March 2013].
Francisco Goya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Francisco Goya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya. [Accessed 05 March 2013]
Realism
Realism
Realism
Realism (also known as Naturalism) was an art movement which first started in France and was used to revolt against the Romanticism Art movement. In general, realist artists sought to capture the detail and precision of the everyday situations of every individual in the classes of society while avoiding the emotion and drama in which it was seen in Romanticist paintings.
Realism (arts) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Realism (arts) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts)#Visual_arts. [Accessed 02 March 2013].
Realism - Realism Art. 2013. Realism - Realism Art. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c19th/realism.htm. [Accessed 03 March 2013].
Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was an era where a lot of changes occurred in many things such as; the manufacture of metals, agriculture etc. The term ‘’revolution’’ in this context is used in the sense that it brought a great change of how things were done such as the production in agriculture (the further improvements done to increase food, wood an cotton production), in metallurgy a certain Abraham Darby managed to smelt pig iron with coke (which lessened the amount of trees which where chopped down to create fires to smelt the iron thus providing more wood for other things).
Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution. [Accessed 02 March 2013].
81.02.06: The Industrial Revolution. 2013. 81.02.06: The Industrial Revolution. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html. [Accessed 02 March 2013].
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
Gustav Courbet is the painter that started and ruled the French movement toward Realism. Everyone was getting used to pictures that made life look better than it was. However, Courbet, truthfully portrait ordinary places and people.
Courbet was born on June 10, 1819, to a farming family in Ornans, France. In 1841, he went to Paris to study law but instead, he studied painting and learned by copying pictures of other artists. In 1844, his self-portrait ‘Courbet with a Black Dog’, was accepted by an annual public exhibition of art.
In 1849 Courbet visited his family in the countryside and produced “The Stone-Breakers” followed by ‘Burial in Ornans’. Both paintings were unlike romantic pictures of the day because they showed peasants in realistic settings “instead of the rich in glamourized situations”. Gustav Courbet his work himself near the exhibition hall when one of his huge canvases was refused for an important exhibition.
By 1859, he was the leader of the new generation of the French realist movement. The artist painted all varieties of subjects such as portraits, nudes and also scenes of nature.
"Self Portrait"
Gustave Courbet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Gustave Courbet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism. [Accessed 02 March 2013].
Gustave Courbet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Gustave Courbet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism. [Accessed 02 March 2013].
Victorian Era
Victorian Art
Victorian art (as its name suggests) is referring to the development of the arts in the Victorian Era. The Victorian art where those of mixing and reviving old art movements with the Asian and the Middle-Eastern cultural influences. This movement is not based on ‘’art’’ in the sense that all of this led to new designs of textiles, furniture and interior design.
Victorian decorative arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Victorian decorative arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_decorative_arts. [Accessed 05 March 2013].
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