Essays on Painting

The chosen work of art that was recreated is known as Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de’ Medici and Luigi de’ Rossi by Raffaelo Sanzio aka Raphael. The oil paint on wood was created in 1518-1519. Its intended location is unknown although it was…

Pablo Picasso’s Guernica speaks to pain and destruction as a singular picture. It is a cubist style painting which depicts the circumstance of the Spanish town of Guernica in the midst of during the Spanish Civil War. Guernica used to be the capital of Spain….

The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci is a masterpiece from the high classical renaissances of France. This is an oil on wood portrait landscape that depicts what art historians believe to be a woman from the noble class. This art piece is the most…

The 18th century was a progressive era where many great thinkers redefine the way of living in their culture. In the 18th century you see the trend of the growing power of centralized states and the rise of political powers in the middle class along…

The interaction between the two is a small one but an important one. He is a random man that happened to be around a pretty woman working on her garden. He stops to chat with her for a bit and maybe see if she has…

Abstract expressionism is an art movement in American painting, post–World War II. It was developed during the 1940s in New York. It was the first American movement to achieve international influence. The term “abstract expressionism” was initially used in 1919 in a German magazine called…

Claude Monet was a leading artist of the nineteenth century Impressionist movement. In fact it was Monet’s painting Impression, Sunrise (1872), which is credited for the origins of the movements name. Monet’s various departures form the norm such as the use of color, light, and…

The Persistence of Memory (La persistencia de la memoria, 1931) by Salvador Dali is one of the most well-known artworks of the twentieth century, which has turned into a symbol of surrealism. The Three Surrealist Manifestos by Andre Breton, who is known as a principal…

Ohhh…Alright painting by Roy Lichtenstein’s was created in 1964 using comics’ images which was originally published by Arleigh Publishing Corp, (now part of D.C. Comics). Using a limited palette of primary colours that appear innocent in concept yet portray an element of sexual attraction that…

Introduction Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait of Lisa Gherardini, more popularly known as the Mona Lisa, has been one of the most famous paintings in the whole world and consequently also became of the most-discussed work of art. The original painting is now owned by…