Essays on Painting

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…

‘The landscape genre, which has long been a vessel for the expression of a wide range of ideas and emotions in art and remains an important subject… But in its character has changed’. An exhibition of Traditional and Modern artworks that represent ‘the landscape genre,…

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…

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…

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…

George Bellows’ piece titled Dempsey and Firpo represents the fight of the century of the nineteen hundred. This match was between an American heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and his Argentine rival Luis Angel Firpo. This piece was made in 1924 as Bellows sat ringside sketching,…

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…

Two chocolate eyes look right through me, drowned by thick black eyebrows. One side of his face is thoughtful, the other concerned. I frown. Did I offend him? No, he must be thinking of something or somewhere else. Such a raw intensity hints at an…

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,…

Tomas Transtromer’s poetry is all based on modernism, surrealism, and expressionism that has a strong imagery to deal with issues of fragmentation and isolation. Transtromer is able to use color words to almost draw a painting in the reader’s head. There are a many poems…