Essays on Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art is a museum with rich and high-quality collection of art objects of all historical periods. The objects are nicely presented within the framework of their origin, meaning, role in society, temporal affiliation. Here, the accent is put on the painting section. Regarding the permanent...

The painting “Starry Night over the Rhine" is one of the arts' works which made Vincent Van Gogh popular in the arts arena. The painting is a representation of how Gogh viewed the Rhine River from his rented house in Lamartine (Naifeh and Gregory 34). Even though Starry Night was...

Out of the works listed for this course, I finally settled on researching Rosa Bonheur s The Horse Fair (1852-1855). I have always been drawn to arts composed during the period of Realism since they do not only give the real impression of the beginning of modern art but also...

Gentle rolling waves wade through the air; stirring up sea and sand, The sun glistening water gleaming like satin sheets, reflecting the blue sky, As slow blowing wind, blusters the cloth on the mast, swaying the boat hard, All is peaceful and calm with Pearl Kite chirpings, a day to make merry. From a...

Gustave Courbet and The Stone Breakers Art Gustave Courbet painted the Stone Breakers art in 1849 during the period of social realism. The painting is a depiction of young and old peasant men breaking rocks. The picture was destroyed in 1945 along with other 154 paintings that were in transit to...

According to the painting of Domingo of 1960, a group of white racists is seen assembled in front of a school protesting against integration. The painting is focused on the American society social ills, inequality and aspects of racism that was experienced in the 1960s. The Domingo’s painting depicts the...

In Western Art, Portraiture has been used by many artists. However, most recent students of portraiture are choosing a different representation of the works of art by coming up with portrait works that seem to have a different representation from those in the earlier times. Various artists such as Pablo Picasso,...

Art in the Past and the Modern Era Art has changed from the past to the modern era in different perspectives such as colouring, lighting, motivation factors and even the selling. In the past, art did not have any freedom and the artists could not express all their ideas since some...

Paintings portray various messages and have also been used to depict the emotional state of the environment or the artist. In the Renaissance and post-Renaissance period artwork was dominated by men and just a few women managed to stamp their authority in this profession. However, among the few we female...

The Ancient Near East begins this discussion by describing The Stele Code of Hammurabi which basically defined a set of rules (or laws) whose enactment was done by the Babylonian King Hammurabi. His reign commenced and ended in the period of 1792-1750 BC. This code of Hammurabi is basically inscribed...

There is technically no precise definition of the term modern art thus its remains elastic accommodating different meanings. The rationale behind this assertion is that art and the world as a whole is in constant evolution which means what is considered or perceived as modern art today might not be...

I and the Village is a painting done by the French artist Marc Chagall. The painting was composed in 1911 and is a colorful work of art done on canvas using oil paint to demonstrate its themes that incorporates multiple pictures that overlap each other in the painting ("Marc Chagall....