Essays on Painting

The drawing of Florida Scene by Thomas Moran is highly influenced by nature. In the art, he predominantly exploits organic shapes. The landscape in the south has curving and irregular forms as observed in the sky, ocean, and vegetation. The trees in the art have long curving branches. Numerous wildflowers...

View of a Town in the Sabine Hills View of a Town in the Sabine Hills is an artwork by Jean-Victor Bertin in 1814 which reveals from a distance, a city constructed on the historical Sabine Hills. During this period, oil painting was the primary medium used to paint such artworks,...

It is apparent that according to Sayre and Henry (50), surrealists aim to express either verbally or through writing, the precise functions of thought. Also, the surrealists aimed at finding the tenets of conception without reason as well as other moral preoccupations. Surrealists as well aimed at ascertaining that apart...

Byun uses different aspects to bring art to play through a mixture of different patterns from Asia and Europe; there is the use of contrast as the painting presents white spaces that appear as cut out pictures on the table and characters in the wall frames. With the presentation of...

a) Dominance of landscape as a subject matter in response to the industrial revolution With the encroachment of the industrial revolution in the early 1800s, economic activities shifted gradually, then rapidly to accommodate the new commodities (Johnson,...

Formal Analysis and Comparison of “Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon crossing the St. Bernard” and “The Emperor Napoleon in his study at the Tuileries” Name Course Date Introduction In Jacques-Louis David’s piece titled “Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul, crossing the Alps at Great St. Bernard Pass” (1802 painting) represents a uniformed soldier sitting contentedly while straddling a wild-eyed...

Etcher, a Dutch painter once contemplated that “Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.” (Rugger and Billinge 25). Apparently, several painters have focused on the atmosphere of the spots or environment that they chose to draw on their paintings. Some of them, however, found themselves mysteriously attached to the atmospheres of...

The Last Judgment - Background The Last Judgment, done between 1536 and 1541 by Michelangelo, covers the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. The time of the painting came shortly after two significant happenings in the history of Catholicism. One was the surge of the Protestant Reformation,...

Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper: A Renaissance Masterpiece Leonardo da Vinci's mural painting the Last Supper was created between 1495 and 1498. The Renaissance masterpiece has struggled to remain intact throughout the years to date. Moreover, even in his lifetime, the painting had begun to wear off. The art was further...

Technology enables us to view various artworks on display at the National Gallery. One can take a virtual tour by pointing their browser to the Gallery website. The physical location of the museum is in Trafalgar Square in London, (The National Gallery, 2018). By viewing artwork at the Gallery, one...

The anger of Achilles painting by Jacques-louis David Introduction Jacques-Louis David was a top Neoclassical painter in Europe during the French Revolution under the leadership of Napoleon. Jacques was sent to exile in Brussels after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. During this time, he was able to paint and exhibit “The...

The painting of a woman with a parasol is found in the National Gallery of Art Museum, located in Washington, DC. The picture was done by Claude Monet to capture his family out on a stroll (Claude, 1897). Apart from the fact that the painter’s family inspired the painting, impressionistic...