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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) stands out in its location with its huge, layered rectangular layered contemporary façade.  Its walls reflect the sunny climate of the place with its beige paint and behind this façade is a lower wide building housing the extensive collection of the museum.  The museum is actually separate…

To have a deeper understanding of the French modernist painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) and his masterpieces, together with his contemporaries, first we have to delve into the art movement that they have pioneered — Impressionism. But before that, it is just proper to discuss Realism, the movement that came before it. The rising Modern Age…

In the history of art, numerous paintings depicting similar subjects have been created by different artists belonging to various artistic movements. Each artist possesses a unique style and distinct approach in capturing their observations and translating them onto canvas. For instance, Theo van Rysselberghe’s “The Regatta,” completed in 1892, and Joseph Mallord William Turner’s “Slave…

The Holy Trinity is regarded as an early example of Renaissance art due to its depiction of god in human form behind Jesus on the cross. Prior to this time, it was uncommon to portray God in artwork, and this representation also reflects Humanism. Traditionally, God would be depicted as a single hand, symbolizing an…

Introduction The African American art is one of the important aspects of the diverse collection of the American art because of its own sense of aesthetic, which was largely created, shaped and influenced by the works of many different African American artists. These artists contributed immensely to African American art through the display of skill…

   AbstractThe portrait paintings done by Elizabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1797) in Portrait of a Young Woman and that of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1859) in his Bocca Baciata both portray a woman of the 19th century.  However, reflecting over the subject, style, and technique (the use of color, strokes, and space), they reflect different backgrounds and…

Judith slaying Holofernes In this painting I see two women over a man. It looks like one of them has a knife and they are stabbing the man in the neck. The other woman looks to be holding down the man that is being stabbed. The man is laying on the bed with a woman…

At the early beginning of the 16th century, which is the époque of High Renaissance, was painted Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin by Raphael, and regardless of brilliance of the outstanding artist, still we can read a distinctive manner of the period in this masterpiece. Another composition is analogous painting of famous Rubens, who…

Introduction to Abstract Abstract Expressionism emerged in America following World War II, placing New York as the focal point of the art world. The term was coined in 1946 by art critic Robert Coates to describe a new American art movement. Its roots can be traced back to Surrealism, which used spontaneous and subconscious creations….

Manet and Modernism: A Perspective on Manet Modernism, as it relates to the work of Edouard Manet, requires at least two caveats as prerequisites to forming a perspective. The problem is twofold: 1) ‘modernism’ is a term with broad, even sometimes vague, definitions, and 2) Edouard Manet’s prolific work is open to broad degrees of…