assignment # 6 Dada

The Dada artwork came to be because artists were protesting against world war 1 and there art work expressed how they felt about it and thought about the war. They came up with the name because an artist stuck a knife inr a dictionary and they thought that the name suited there work and beacs. The Dada style is more of a rebellious attitude than a cohesive style and it also broke away from tradition. The Dada artwork is more like abstract things that make an everyday thing be different or abnormal and to viewers it looks a lot like nonsense
The artwork from Jacob Lawrence  were based on African American history. In his first painting its more like Dada in a way because you can see that all but one figure looks normal while the rest seem to be missing their heads. Most of Jacob Lawrence paintings he uses a lot of shapes and colors. He also created his own type of painting style by combining two styles together. His paintings had different types of messages like some of the messages he sent out in his paintings were of education, what happens to people who migrate and also how woman were portrayed back in the old times. Jacob Lawrence was painting based on expedites of black labor in Southern U.S. He was inspired by Goya, Daumier, Arosco and Harlem Renaissance that he decided to make his own style. He also was interested in Matisse work because the color, flat space and the he used pattern interested him.     

assignment # 4 part 2

The baroque and the renaissance period have different types of painting styles. You could distinguish the baroque from the renaissance by the different types of quality and elements which they use to express their perspective. The baroque style is very different from the renaissance you can tell the difference between the two in various ways. The Baroque style it is more of dark colors in the background has directed light which makes it have a strong contrast to the painting which captures your attention. The Baroque paintings show energy, feeling and scale in the paintings that sometimes you feel that you are there in person.  In the Baroque also uses vivid realism by using sharp diagonals and foreshortening, therefore these paintings are usually used for personal and mystical types of faith. On the other hand renaissance they were challenged by humanism which made them rediscover the arts of Rome and Greece. There were two different types of painting styles that were done in the renaissance period which are Gothic style and Italian renaissance. The renaissance used other types of mean to capture the viewers’ attention by using psychic lines, realism, space, implied space and linear perspective. In the renaissance paintings they also use warm colors and also show human emotions in the paintings. This is the period where they rediscovered realism and started to depict people feelings in the paintings more, which you were able to see more human emotions in the painting.
 

This is painting “Fra Carnevale” by Bartolomeo De Giovanni Corradini which is made by tempera and oil on wood. The painting itself is 57x 37 7/8 inches which is pretty  big and shows how much work and detail he put in the painting. The painting is about Madonna giving birth to her son in contemporary terms, in the background of the painting you could see the newborn baby is bathed by the midwives. In the painting you could see the woman in the front talking and greeting each other. This a perfect example of a renaissance painting because in the painting you see different colors you see the different qualities and styles that were used to make this painting. The way you could identify this painting from the renaissance is by looking at the painting and you could see linear perspective and also the vanishing point. If you look at the tile on the ceiling it goes straight to the baby and it vanishes. You could also see depth and space how everything looks to be far away and in the foreground is closer to you.

The Baroque painting “Merry Company on a Terrace” by Jan Steen which is oil on canvas the painting size is 141 x 131.4cm which is more like a normal size. The painting is about a waitress and she is holding a glass which makes it look sexually suggestive and she is so familiar with the musician but he has more to offer the waitress. This is painting you tell that it is Baroque because the painting has a lot of dark colors in the background and you could that light is trying to come in from the right side. The waitress is in the middle of the painting which draws your attention to her and the symbols around her. The meaning of the painting is that these people are spoiled and that there should be child rearing and garden of love and combined it into an original story.

assignment # 5

There are a couple of different types of art during the 18^th and 19^th century, those art works were romanticism, photography, realism, impressionist and port impressionist. The impressionist opposed doctrines of romantic and realism that they focused more on impressionism.  Most artists used these different types of art to express their messages, emotions or etc. In this time period a lot of the artist were mainly focused in impressionist which is based on what they see then what their mind knows about what they are viewing. The reason why many artists at the time began to be more involve with impressionism  because of a group of artist that were not allowed to show their art work at the salon of 1873.
 

 Claude Monet was a very famous impressionist artist who drew a lot of paintings that showed how some of the impressionist viewed their surroundings. In this painting of Claude Monet you would not be able to identify what is exactly in the painting or what it about. You could look at it from close and far and the more you study the more it will become clear.  The impressionist they do a sketch and they do it fast they don’t take their time painting it or making sure that it is perfect. They paint on direct observation then going back to their studios to paint it and they also use small dabs of paint and not a lot of color in their paintings. Like here we can see how Claude Monet painting looks to us you could see where you could see the strokes of paint and how he only uses a few colors not so many so he could show us active balance.
 

In the post-impressionist the artist reacted differently because some artist didn’t feel like the impressionist wasn’t showing spiritual content or it was missing personal expression so it was split into two different groups. The two groups name were former organizational and personal expression in the post-impressionist they used a part of Japanese’s print to paint their paintings. The post-impressionist they see nature as gift so they paint it with a different perspective. The post-impressionist they use a lot of repetition and they flatten out shapes and makes it broader. Vincent Van Gogh painting he expresses of what the heart feels then what the outer expressions shows. which in this painting he shows how the wheat is in danger by crows and the storm that causes mayhem to the wheat.

assignment # 4 Rembrandt

    The portrait of the "the business man hero" was a portrait of a businessman that sold fur and his business was about marketing fur. In the portrait that he asked Rembrandt to do for him, his whole body and head was covered in fur. The texture of the fur looks so real and makes it look like it is soft. His body is surrounded by a luminous light that seems to cling to his body. Behind his head you could see the light going into dark because of the gray and black behind his head. While you look back at his face you could feel the intensity and feel so realistic. Makes you feel that he is looking right at you, you could see the line and wrinkles in his face and his eyes looks so sharp. He is the "the Business man's hero" because in the painting he is branding himself with his own merchandise which also shows that he is rich. He is also showing different types of signs by the color on his face like the pink around his eye shows that he had slept very little that night. The way every wrinkle and line around his eyes make his eyes look sharp and slightly intelligent.
    The mood of the portrait of the 83 year old woman is poignant vulnerability which in her face you could see that she is uncertain of something or she also looks kind of scared what is going to happen. She could be scared about whether she would be accepted up to heaven due to the sins she committed or could be who she is leaving behind. We don't know the reason but we could feel that it could be anything that could be worrying her. You could tell that she is either scared or unsure by the way he drew the wrinkles and lines around her face, they seem to droop and come down. Her eyes shows sadness in them you could feel it which this portrait makes you think that probably Rembrandt was a human psychologist.
  Other painters painted Sampson half naked in between the arms of his lover which is Delilah.  What Rembrandt is communicating in his painting of Sampson and Delilah is that he painted Sampson fully clothed which makes him seem he is more vulnerable. He also painted a knot in his clothing which symbolizes the relationship between him and his lover. He is lying between her legs while she is she cutting his hair with her right hand while her left hand caresses the rest of his tresses. Rembrandt goes straight to the point of the story which is about the tragic inseparability of amorous tenderness and brutal betrayal.

assignment #3

The Medici family was so important in the development in the renaissance because they had a lot of money. They also took risk but they were helped Brunelleschi work was considered to be unorthodox but Cosimo still helped him and let him work on a structure for the dome. Cosimo also let artists show their artwork even if it was different then they would normally see around them. Donatello’s David was revolutionary because it was the first time since ancient Rome when he made the sculpture that is bronze. He took the risk of getting killed or beaten for showing a nude sculpture due to the fact that they considered a taboo. The sculpture is a life size bronze sculpture of David and he is wearing a hat and boots. He has a feather in his boot that reaches out to his knees which seems that the feather is caressing his leg. The stance of the sculpture shows his expression and the intensity. The sword which is on his right hand and the head at his feet symbolizes that there was a battle which he had won.