Essays on Art

Art has no purpose beyond its own self. Art exists to celebrate life, nature, and the world we live in. And to some extent, to expose problems in society. We can conclude that we use our senses to identify ourselves with an artwork. However, there…

Art has been around for thousands of years. It has come in many shapes and sizes and different forms. We now have so many ways to create art from colored pencils to graphite. These media have their own individual history of how they came to…

Seated woman, 1999, by Ron Mueck is a sculpture of an old lady who is seated clasping her hands in front of her. She is slightly hunched and her face looks lonely and sad. She has wrinkles on her face which explain that she is…

I have decided to break down my essay into sections of subheadings of vital famous events in Basquiat’s lifetime that impacted the public and society. For example, I included his early life as SAMO and stand to police brutality etc. Biography Jean-Michel Basquiat was a…

Christopher Miranda Ansel Adams was one of the founders that created photography and made and evolutionary change for everyone. He was a photographer and environmentalist, born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. The grandson of a…

The paintings on the walls and ceilings of the Camera Picta by Mantegna are frescoes. In his frescoes, Mantegna painted using illusionism, effectively employing depth, aerial perspective, color, etc. In the interior of the Camera Picta, Mantegna decorated the walls with many different paintings. The…

Mona Lisa is widely considered to be the greatest portrait of all time it appears in countless advertisements has inspired poetry sculpture forgeries and theft but seriously why the Painting is small only 30”x 21” the color is somber the background seems desolate and eerie…

The portrait shows the subject sitting upright and sideways in a chair, with her face and chest turned slightly towards the viewer. Her left arm sits comfortably on the armrest of the chair and is clasped by the hand of her right arm which crosses…

He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art, he taught himself. Massachusetts, in 1836, Homer was the second of three sons of Charles Savage Homer and Henrietta Benson Homer, both from long lines of New…

Image is a visual representation of a person or a thing. Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph or screen display, or three-dimensional, such as a statue. They may be captured by optical devices, such as cameras, telescopes, microscopes, etc. and natural objects and…