Essays on Artwork

Widely known for his controversial and anime-inspired artworks, Japanese artist Mr. returns to Hong Kong for his new exhibition titled “People misunderstand me and the contents of my paintings. They just think they are nostalgic, cute, and look like Japanese anime. That may be true,…

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…

This photograph was taken by Mike Wells in Uganda in the year 1980. The photo is a low close-up shot. It is lit from the top which brings focus to the subject of the image; the contrasting hands. I feel this picture is a powerful…

The theme I chose for my artworks for the grade 11 syllabus was “Extraordinary, ordinary”. I had varies subthemes I wanted to explore such as extraordinary love, which is where I wanted to show love without boundaries and extraordinary women, which is where I wanted…

Twelve different children. Twelve innocent yet motivational children. Children who stripped-off the layer of clothes for us to see the naked truth. The painting was portrayed by different kind of children from different story of life with Jesus as their center. Which of these children…

In this essay I will be discussing a variety of topics all regards to two specific pieces of art. The two pieces of art I will be writing about were created by two different artists. The first painting is named Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi’s,…

Ian Burn is an Australian artist and art writer born in 1939 who focuses on conceptual art, an art form which concepts and ideas presented by the artist is considered to be more important than the final result of the art piece itself. In 1964,…

“The Broken Column”, a self-portrait, was created by Frida Kahlo in the year of 1944. This artwork was painted just after Kahlo had undergone a spinal operation. The surgery had left her unable to do much activity and bounded by a metal corset, which helped…

Comparative Artwork Visual Analysis Large pieces of artwork are difficult to create. They can take years to make and properly assemble a meaning within. One of these large works My World and Yours (1954), by Irving Norman is an oil on canvas which represents a…