Oil painting

Bride, Jan van Eyck’s 1434 oil painting on wood panel, is among the most famous paintings in Renaissance art. This painting not only is a double portrait but also visually certifies the wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini, an Italian merchant, and his betrothed in their Flemish home in Bruges. Van Eyck’s composition is filled with elaborate detail and complex symbolism. The use of oil paint instead of tempera paint allowed van Eyck to create the illusion of depth within his painting. He achieved the…

time. He used oil as a medium, the slow drying substance allowed him time to mix colors and create layers. The painting that most embodies Eyck's skills is the Arnolfini Double Portrait, painted in 1434. The painting is currently displayed at the National Gallery in London. This double portrait is an intriguing piece that leaves more questions than answers. One of the reasons the painting is so intriguing, is because of who is being painted. At a time where portraits and paintings were more…

My analysis is on “The Corn Poppy” by Kees Van Dongen, an artwork that was published in 1919. According to the date, it was set around the twenties, which reflected the “Flapper Era” which was going on at the time in Paris. Kees van Dongen was part of the “Fauve” movement. They were known as the “wild beasts” and their artwork used “garnish colors and apparent crudeness” to each of their art pieces. The lines displayed in the picture show us how the girl is the main focus of the artwork. The…

Feminine features The painting Jupiter and Callisto by Angelica Kauffmann (1781), oil on canvas with a 24 inches diameter is a painting in the late 19th century. As soon as our eyes set into the painting, two female figures in the foreground captured our attention. One of them is Jupiter in the disguise of Dianna, while the other female is Callisto. Since the main light source is shone on both of them, they would consider as the emphasis of the artwork and where most tension is created. The…

Germany, 1920. Its oil on canvas and the scale is Frame: 31 x 26 x 1 ½, 24 ½ x 19in. This art piece uses some of formal elements and design principles to make the art very interesting to examine. For example, Heister used color and shapes to design the beasts and proportion and scale to make the beast big to catch people’s attention. The combination of both techniques has made this piece of art look intimidating because of the color and distorted shapes. The theme of this painting is that the…

I chose The Veteran because I could tell it was a surrealist painting and because of that it would be relevant to the class. I also chose this painting because of the symbols of a war around the body and the empty landscape that is in the background. I chose The Javelin because of the figure and how it looked compared to everything else in the painting. The proportions of the painting really grabbed my attention because the figure was so much larger and everything else was smaller than it should…

North of Italy, painting was less influenced by the Greco-Roman revival that it had been in Italy. However, in the north, there were a number of technical innovations that revolutionized painting. In the Netherlands much of this art was not produced on canvas or church walls like that of Italy, but instead produced on wood panels. These could be alter pieces for churches, but portable. The Dutch mastered humanism and showed their virtuosity in minute details such as backgrounds, clothing details…

Joseph-Marie Vien, I was first surprised by size of these two paintings. They are almost life sized, or even bigger. One could hardly tell the story behind these images while he or she was looking at these two works for the first time. So did I. However, I didn't stop looking at them. I decided to cultivate things solely out of visual perspective before I look up their historical background. While I will be addressing plenty of analysis on the paintings’ pictorial and historical background, I…

human morality and the consequences of poor decisions. These pieces are both extraordinary in their complexity, details, and thoughtfulness. Each provides endless observation and interpretation by the viewer. Hieronymus Bosch’s painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, is oil on oak panels, measuring 220 cm × 389 cm. Finished in 1505, the piece is a triptych, constructed in three panels hinged at the sides. When closed, the scene is a grayscale translucent image of the earth, sky, and sea…

The painting, Turf, with Jockey up, at Newmarket, was painted approximately 1765. Stubbs used oil to paint yet another one of his sporting pictures. This painting is around 38 x 49 inches and painted on canvas. The painting is certainly asymmetrical because the two sides of the painting are different. In the dead center is the horse, Turf, owned by Lord Bolingbroke, one of Stubbs’s early patrons. They are framed by an immense golden rubbing house on the right however only a small white post on…