Essays on Artwork

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...

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....

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 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...