Visual Arts

“The Birth of Venus” was painted in 1863 and is currently on display in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, France (Rosenbloom, 1989). Nude paintings and similar erotic subjects were popular during this time and as a result, Napoleon III immediately purchased this painting for his own private collection (Rosenbloom, 1989). This painting can be considered…

The Exoticism in the Work of Picasso and Gauguin * Ask of import critical inquiries in the text. * Elaborately merge treatment of the two images * Write about two pages on each image Introduction Picasso and Gauguin often deal with the thoughts and values associated with non-western civilization. This thesis looks at one manifestation…

The word “Moche” refers to an archaeological site, an ancient language, an art style, a people, and a culture – a civilization that flourished on the northern Peruvian coast between 200 B. C. and 700 A. D. It was a militaristic society that took its name after its language Mochica (Keatinge, 1988). Moche is also…

The Hope Athena For my visual analysis assignment I chose to go visit the Los Angles County Museum of Art. It has been an extremely long time since I last visited a museum. Took my twelve year old son with me to explore what the museum had to offer. We found the art to be…

Recognized as the leading portraitist in England and the United States at the turn of the century, John Singer Sargent was acclaimed for his elegant and very stylish depictions of high society. Known for his technical ability, he shunned traditional academic precepts in favor of a modern approach towards technique, color and form, thereby making…

Through his art, Francisco Goya relayed his feelings toward the political unrest that plagued Spain during his lifetime. As an artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Goya lived through a time of political and social upheaval, especially throughout Europe. At the time, the ideas of the Enlightenment had captivated the minds of…

The Renaissance Period changed the way Western art was conceived following the strict and religious tomes of the Gothic era.  The Renaissance was inspired by a naturalistic realism emphasizing the human qualities of the religious subject.  Both Duccio di Buoninsegna and Giotto di Bondone were at the forefront of this movement.  With this brief essay,…

Mona lisa: three different approaches The theme, subject matter, and content in these works are all markedly different.  In da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, the subject matter is the seated woman, clearly and respectfully portrayed, with the lighting as the only special effect and no irony apparent.  In Duchamp’s L. H.O.O.Q. (Mona Lisa with Moustache), a work…

Paul Klee was one of the most unique and influential artist’s of his time period. Klee was born in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland on the 18th of December 1879. Klee, being born in Switzerland and creating a majority of his work in Germany, was considered both a Swiss and German artist. As a child Klee was extremely…

The art pattern of pulling in the late 20th century has achieved the position of art in its ain right. The attack to drawing is besides altering in ways that reflect tendencies within the art universe at big. Many graphicss in association with pulling challenge traditional boundaries among media. Second, there is self-consciousness about the…