Essays on Artist

In “Ways of Seeing,” art critic John Berger discusses a key argument, which is, that if you know your history, then you know where you are coming from. In Berger’s more classically Marxist formulation he states, “A people or a class which is cut off…

Between the representation of art and science with Picasso and Einstein, the discovery is made that both art and science are equally valuable, but beyond that, even within one another’s disciplines, both science and art are required to generate a nice balance and thusly increase…

Un Perro Andaluz is a silent, surrealist short film co-written by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali and directed by Buñuel. According to Linda Williams, surrealism was inspired by the “subsequent exploration of the relation between the unconscious thought and poetic production” (Williams 12). She explains…

Maya Lin: A Personal Reflection Learning about Maya Lin and her struggle changed my understanding and appreciation of her work by making me realize how much racism she had to deal with, especially from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Just because she is Asian doesn’t mean…

For the current artist, commissioned artwork is made based on the buyer’s design, while also taking a little inspiration from artwork of the time period, and favoring the buyer’s outlook. Claude-Joseph Vernet was a famous painter during the mid-18th century, who specialized in commissioned artwork…

Reading about Pablo Picasso surprised me and left me in shock, It changed how I looked and saw his works, before knowing what’s behind his art, looking at Picassos paintings was never interesting to me, they couldn’t make sense to me. When I read about…

The modern representation of the garbage that comes in and out of humans mouths. In Philip Guston’s painting “Painters Forms II” laid out with oil on canvas (75 X 108 inches) with images of a big open mouth and teeth, what looks like soles of…

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…

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…

Addressing the first assembly of the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture Louis charged its members with preserving the crown: “I entrust you with what I value most—ma gloire!” At first established to arbitrate in feuds over artistic representation, the Academie and, later, its…