Oil painting

Figure 2.1 is a polygon with 12 sides. The polygon is not convex, as there is at least one reex angle. The objective of the art gallery problem is to hire the most efficient number of guards required to have vision of each point inside of the polygon. Begin with the process of vertex guards. The most visually optimal way to prove the result _n 3 _ is by first triangulating the polygon. Every vertex of the polygon can be attached in such a way that the entire polygon is made up of solely…

I picked the Birth of Venus because I saw this painting in my Western Civilizations course here at Maryville College and it was the one that stuck out the most to me. It is a unique, mythological painting from the Renaissance Period painted in Florence, Italy. The Birth of Venus belongs to the group of mythological pictures painted by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) in the 1480s, following his return from Rome after completing three fresco paintings in the Sistine Chapel for Pope Sixtus IV. The…

raisonné for the artist Cima da Conegliano, which I found in the course reserves for this course, FAH274. I used the index of the book in order to find the catalogue entry for my assigned work. b. In the catalogue entry, the author mentions a few paintings that Cima da Conegliano made which are closely related to Madonna of the Orange Tree. Of these, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, with Sts. John the Baptist and Lucy…

I chose the piece Giza, made in 1999 by Henry Littleton (1922-2013) who was American. The medium of this work is print and the materials used to make it is a three color intaglio vitreograph, which is a print whose matrix is common float glass instead of the traditional metal, wood or stone. The size of this artwork is about 30 x 40 inches, with a wooden frame that compliment and holds the print. Giza was one of the many works promised to FGCU as a gift from Carol Littleton Shay from Littleton…

(Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, 1456-?) is an oil painting done on panel from the Northern Renaissance created by Hans Memling. The Portinari triptych has material and technical aspects of Northern paintings. Northern artists focused on using texture, lighting, spacial relations, and balance to reach their intended audience. Memling noticed that Northern-styled portraiture was sought after and catered to this demand. Oil paint was the most popular painting medium during the Northern Renaissance…

The painting that I found to be the most interesting was “Venus and Adonis”. This painting measures about 42 inches x 52 1/2 inches. The painting was created by oil paint, a medium composed of pigments and varying types of vegetable oils. The painting was done on stretched canvas, and therefore it gives the painting a slight textured quality. The painter, Titan, painted this picture giving soft appearances of the colors. The painting doesn’t have any harsh brush strokes, and the paint seems to…

image that I like to explain to other pictures that in the class room is “Dancers in the wings” artist by Edgar Degas (1834-1817). This painting is square shape frame with the dimension of 27-1/4 x 19-3/4 in. (69.2 x 50.2 cm). The medium of this painting are Pastel, gouache, distemper (glue-based paint), and peinture a Pessence (conventional paint drained of its oil). In the Norton Simon, it states that “Color is applied wet, with a brush, for reverse of a stage flat at left and in rapid, liquid…

I viewed so many stunning works of art, but out of the pieces I had the chance to see that day. The three that caught my eye were Antoine Watteau’s Ceres (Summer) oil on canvas, c. 1717/ 1718, Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Diana and Endymion oil on canvas, c. 1753/1756, and finally François Boucher’s The Bath of Venus, 1751. These painting are not only connected by the same medium, They also contain similar themes of Roman mythology (fantasy), and they all happen to be created during the same period…

meaning. This is oil on canvas painting called Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas made by artist Albert Bierstadt during 1870. This panting’s color schemes is polychromatic. It contains different hues such as green, yellow, and blue. Those hues that used on the painting are cool. Also there are secondary colors. The panting used dark green color in the trees that behind the river, and this creates values and distance between mountain and the land. Additionally, this painting used…

Van Eyck had one of the highest social standings for a painter? He worked under two courts so that we would be well know and have a high social standing. Jan Van Eyck was considered very influential. His painting were done in various styles and techniques. He was the first known painter to use oil painter. Eyck’s work under the two courts also made him very influential. Many of his skills were later adapted by early Netherlander painters. Eyck had a very mysterious childhood. His origins are not…