Essays on Painting

What should you expect when you go to have a portrait made? You just dress up and go to the studio and say “Cheese”… Right? Oh, hell no!Yes, you could just walk in and let the photographer take care of everything. And you could come…

He moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne with the family after his school days and worked in different jobs. Later on he took a strong decision to become a professional artist in 1988. He is a self-taught artist with a unique style in his paintings. Alexander Millar’s paintings…

The window is wide open; the sky is blue; the white clouds are in a beautiful blend with the sky; there is a tall tree in the middle of the forest; the field is green as it is filled with grass and bushes; a cool…

Salvador Dali’s painting Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man (1943) is a dynamic piece that utilizes multiple elements and principles of art to convey its meaning. Dali’s piece portrays a sense of otherworldly intrigue, if not disgust, as a man hatches from…

These three artists utilized the human body as a vessel, leaving out unnecessary information by simplifying form, color and light. Coming from different movements and cultures such as Impressionism, American Renaissance and also Japanese ukiyo-e print designing. Also using different techniques like painting, inking, sketching…

Salvador Dali was known for his surrealist artworks. The term surrealism first appeared in the writings of French poet Guillame Apollinaire who used it in 1917. It is known that surrealism is irrational, and hallucinatory. It positioned itself not from escape from life but as…

One of Matisse’s most distinguishing features are bold primary colors that tend to stand out on the canvas. The Fauves added this characteristic to their paintings because of the French pessimistic point of view that France was losing its taste for life and culture, with…

“I’m just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration”. This is a quote from the man who created the Wolf and Fox Hunt. This work of art conveys a clear emotion through its style of art. First, it uses…

‘Postmodernism’ is a style of the late 20th century, which involves the intentional influence/use of past artist’s work styles and conventions. As a characteristic of postmodernism, ‘appropriation’ occurs when artists deliberately borrow pre-existing art features/images adding little to no variation. This occurs in order to…

I have selected the art work called New Hope (Falcon heavy side boosters, first landing) because it really caught my attention and I thought it looked really cool the way Adam Fung can make a painting look like if it was a picture taken. In…