Spray painting

1. Mexican Muralism – Mexican muralism is the term used to describe the revival of large-scale mural painting in Mexico during the 1920’s and 1930’s. The three greatest Mexican muralists were José Clemente, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Diego Rivera is known to be the most important painter of the movement. The Mexican muralism is also known as one of the greatest movements in Mexican territories as it gave a new way for painters to be able to paint in civic buildings and in…

the fall of the French monarchy during the rise of Napoleon, Architectural Fantasy reflects the former works of Hubert Robert while also depicting a slight change in subject matter. Although the painting is of a building, it evokes qualities of a landscape painting with its broad views. Romantic paintings from this era were defined by their use of light and color to convey emotion. Another aspect of Romantic works was that the scenes were often glorified to depict a more beautiful and perfect…

1994; I found this painting in the CSUN Art Galleries. There are many paintings in the CSUN Art Galleries, this painting attracts me the most. The size of the painting is 56 inches by 60 inches, this is a painting that is not small nor big. This painting was painted in 1994, so there doesn’t have a lot of high technology, like cell phone or iPad in those days, so it’s easier to analysis. When I first saw this painting, it very attracts me, especially the color of the painting. The background…

Norwegian born American artist known for his paintings of various landscape scenes, such as View of the Seine and Morning on the River. Dusk on Lower Broadway is an oil canvas painting of a similar breed, currently displayed in the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College. It depicts a cold city street, utilizes a simple, yet pleasing, range of primary colors, and represents the charming way that busy cities drown out details and people. In this painting, Lie creates the familiar set of a…

his perspective paintings. While he was not the first to discover this phenomenon, he still adopted and expanded on the idea and asked the question, how can I make a flat surface portrait resemble a realistic picture? Filippo Brunelleschi was the one who had a system of sizing objects on the painting, according to what he wanted the viewer to see or focus on. Leon Battista Alberti wrote a book about painting techniques, and how the painter could make the two-dimensional painting, look…

Leonardo Di Vinci. I have studied his work before and I am intrigued by all of his work. Through all the reading I have done and the studying I have done I have realized that he has in fact had a major impact on perspective, light, shadows, and color in painting and influence that it had on other artists. I think it is interesting that this was listed and how exploration and discovery apply to many areas and not just in science and the universe. Da Vinci is a leader in the art industry and has…

Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15th, 1452, in the town of Vinci, Italy, to a notary named Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci and a peasant girl named Caterina. Few documentations are known of the early years of his life, although it is known that he lived in his mother’s home until the age of 5, moving to his father’s household after this age. Leonardo’s father was married four times throughout his life, with the first three being unsuccessful for various reasons. Starting at the age…

Context Urban Outfitters’ layout has a banner that runs across the top of the page that contains all the compartments of the website (Women, Men, Apartment, etc.). The website's background is white and the words are in black, but has pictures all along the homepage directing the customer to different parts of the website. Once you decide what products you want to look at the layout is the same for each. It has the basic white background with pictures of the products laid out by the number the…

In the image of a mural painted by frank romero “Going to the Olympics, 1984” shows a beautiful painting done on the side of a Hollywood freeway. It was dedicated to the Olympics, it has 5 old model type cars with valentine hearts over each car, there are palm trees in the background as well he uses light pastel colors to give off the light cheery mood. On top in the sky of the mural are symbols as well; there is an iron, two men wrestling, a Good Year blimp, a stallion, and a mailing stamp.…

Books are tools which people use find truth and wisdom; pictures are the important role for more understanding. After years and years of improving, pictures have become an important part of readings, especially in the range of Encyclopedia and history; therefore, considering a picture for a certain part in history is critical in different circumstances. For example, consider a picture for CPR, well known as the Canadian Pacific Railway, there are three pictures available: The first one is…