Essays on Painting

Jacob Jordaens and Hendrick Terbrugghen are two great artists of the Baroque period. Both of them excellently represent the art of their time, and both leave a mark to younger generations of painters and audience. However, if we try to compare the works of these two painters, one would naturally outdo the other, and one’s…

JAIN SCHOOL OF PAINTING We find Jain style in the four paintings of Jins (Jain Gods) in the Sittanvasala caves in 700A. D. The oldest examples of this school are the paintings of parshwa-Nath, Nemi-Nath and Rish-Nath etc, 20 Tirthankars in “KalKacharya Katha” and “Kalpa Sutra”. Most of the Jain paintings were done Black &…

Liberty Leading the People Analysis Painting Analysis Ideas of freedom are represented in this painting (Liberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix) in many different ways. Freedom is represented very plainly in the title as Liberty means being free or being free from society. The woman wants her people to be free from the government and…

PART 1: Similarities Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride The French Ambassador 1.      Oil on Oak Oil on Oak 2.       Positioning of subjects, classical triangulation. A converging presence visible as the little dog in the foreground. Subjects also triangulated and are facing one another. Converging point appears to be a skull (looking like a piece of…

Compare and Contrast: Asian Paintings The Fan Kuan’s “Travelers among the Mountains and Streams” and the Xia Gui’s “Detail of Twelve views from a thatched hut”, both of these paintings are related to nature. Both of them are made in the reign of the Song dynasty. Both of them are made of ink and silk….

Introduction This research paper seeks to illustrate differences that exist between CorelDraw and Ms Paint, in terms of their features and applications. CorelDraw CorelDraw as defined in (Bain and Bouton 2008) is a kind of vector graphic editor, which was developed as well as marketed by a company called Corel Corporation. CorelDraw has been developed…

As part of Persian literature, Rumi’s poetry is influenced by Islam and Sufi ideas. All of his poems relate to Muslim religious views, which affect the true theme. The short poem I have chosen to analyze is, “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? ” This poem is closely related to…

The elements of art in Matisse’s ‘Woman With a Hat’ are line, shape, color and texture. The lines of the painting are soft, natural, and textured, and the brushstrokes are left apparent, as opposed to solid, straight lines. In addition, the lines, as well as the shapes, are curved and organic. The shapes of the…

Paul Klee is a famous Surrealist painter, regarded by the Nazis as a degenerate artist. Born on December 18, 1879, in Munchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland, Klee enters the most prestigious art school in Germany, the Munich Academy, at the age of 21. Shortly thereafter, he moves to Munich and travels throughout Europe studying impressionist artwork…

Clement Greenberg, “Modernist Painting” In his text entitled “Modernist Painting”, Greenberg focuses on the development of painting between the 14th and 19th century and emphasizes on what distinguishes Modernist painting from previous forms of painting, particularly those of the Old Masters. Greenberg begins by relating Modernist art to Kantian philosophy claiming that, the same way…