Essays on Art

There are numerous Old Testament Trinity icons across the globe from different times but Andrei Rublev's visual interpretation of the holy trinity can be considered one of the most popular paintings. Andrei Rublev's The Trinity, was painted in the 15th century between 1411 to 1427 with the exact date or year...

Inspiration and Interpretation in Art Inspiration is a vital ingredient when it comes to the creation of a masterpiece. Different artists have different inspirations. It is always interesting to observe how aspects of our daily life are represented in art. Although a piece of art often represents an artist's point of...

The machine is the one factor that defines the 20th-century identity. At the turn of the 20th century, the role of the machine was an innermost one; to introduce the dawn of a modern age facilitated by productivity and energy of the machine. It was during the 20th century that the...

Zoe Leonard basically is a feminist activist, who wrote the poem ‘I want a President.’ Some of the works she has done is influenced by the occurrence of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s.The desire to have an elected leader, one who has experienced the hardships of a common man pushes...

George Washington's Crossing of the Delaware River George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, pictured above, is an 18th-century painting which was done by Emanuel Leutze. The 1851 painting is located at the Metropolitan Museum of art and has 378.5 cm × 647.7 cm (149 in × 255 in) dimensions. The...

The Garden City, Mega City is a work of art that is preserved in the Skyscraper Museum in Manhattan, New York. The Garden City, Mage City illustrates a built and pre-built work by WOHA, a Singaporean building design company for tropical and urban buildings. The art work was introduced to...

The Stone breakers by Gustave Courbet and The Gleaners by Jean Francois Millet The images The Stone breakers by Gustave Courbet, and 1849 and The Gleaners, 1857 by Jean Francois Millet, are important artworks in Realism. The two images are about the daily life, a subject that everyone tends to forget....

Renaissance Period: The Annunciation by Leonardo Da Vinci -It was Leonardo’s first painting at only 20 years old -First appearance in Uffizi, 1867 during the Renaissance period. It was thought to be Domenico Ghirlandaio’s work but Karl Eduard von Liphart of Florence recognized it as Leonardo’s. -It has a touch of both Verrocchio...

On Monday the 22nd of February 2018, I met Salgado Peters- a young painter from Virginia. I had called him a week before requesting an interview with him after hearing from friends about his sold-out showcase in New York. This interview was part of my project with The Guardian on 'talent'....

It is said that art is the Universal language, clearly understood by a larger proportion of the global demographics.  Art best describes the norms and cultural orientations of the people habiting a certain locality.  This explains why it is simpler to explain life affairs using a simple piece of art...

Julian Onde4rdonk was the son of San Antonio who was a famous painter. He lived in the year (1822-1922) ("Julian Onderdonk | Questroyal"). He spent his early childhood exploring the South Texas Hill Country. He later went to school at the Art students League. Julian became famous for his Bluebonnet...

As a robust way of knowing the universe, painting assembles the personal aesthetic emotion and artistic capability of humans. In the history of art, Canadian and Chinese landscape painting use nature as the figure of performance, present significant differences in the eyes of painters and their tools due to the...