Painting Essay Examples and Research Papers

The painting “Woman with a hat” (La Femme au chapeau) has been created by Henri Emile Benoit Matisse. He was born on December 31st, 1869, in Le Cateau-cambresis which is in the north of France. In the year 1889, Henri Matisse’s mother provided him a box of colors when he started painting (The personal life…

In the month of October, me and my family went to the Norton Simon Museum (NSM) so I could work on my art history college homework. The guidelines say I need to make an analysis on a painting and its artist. We looked around the museum for a long time before I could find a…

The first painting is an oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich, ‘The Monk by the sea’ which was painted in the early 1800s. A lone monk stands left from the centre on an uneven beige foreground with the highest point being the ground that the monk stands on, closest to the sea. It depicts his…

Cimabue’s painting The Flagellation of Christ was created circa 1280 on a poplar panel using tempera paints and gold leaf. The painting is on the smaller size, being 9 ¾ inches tall by 7 ⅞ inches wide. This results in the viewer having to get physically closer to the painting in order to be able…

The painting of Gordon Bennett is a remake of Samuel Calvert’s painting that plays with the colours and changes painting techniques in order to change the perspective of the viewer – no longer are the British colonizers the main focus of the painting, they could formerly be observed all around in the painting in the…

Incident Description “The Raft of Medusa” was created by Theodore Gericault in between 1818-1819. This painting was based on a real accident which had occurred on July 2, 1816. In this tragedy the shipwreck had occurred on course off the coast of Africa before running aground near Mauritania. There were 400 people on board including…

Da Vinci through the Mona Lisa painting became the first painter to use an aerial perspective to depict a sitter before an imaginary landscape in a portrait. The enigmatic and mysterious woman is seated on an open loggia as the picture portrays each side of the picture containing dark pillar bases. There is a vast…

Drawing animals is something I had once avoided. I am someone who critiques each and every line that is created as soon as my pencils make contact with the paper. So, of course, I’d be someone who also overthinks each and every strand of hair, every scale and every whisker when illustrating an animal. Each…

Armand Guillaumin, Railroad Bridge over the Marne at Joinville and Édouard Manet, the “Kearsarge” at Boulogne Armand Guillaumin was an impressionist and lithographer born in Paris, France in a working family that later moved to Moulins in Bourbonnais where he spent his childhood days. Armand started working at the age of 15 at his uncle’s…

Early Sunday Morning is an essential painting by Edward Hopper. Hopper piece title Early Sunday Morning ( Edward Hopper 1930) represents the “almost a literal translation of Seventh Avenue”. This piece was made in 1930 a depiction of the bare essential street in New York City. The current location of the piece is in the…