Painting Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 5

Grant Wood created “American Gothic” in 1930. He used oil on beaverboard. The story goes that in August 1930, Grant Wood visited Eldon, Iowa, where he saw a modest residence built in the 1980s in a style known as Carpenter Gothic. The house inspired Wood to imagine its residents; an insular Victorian pair clinging to…

In time as everything will change and develop, so as art will. There are going to be new methods of art, new ideas, and old ideas in a new version and new objects and tools will be used for arts. For instance, books are going to be replaced by iPads, and there will be a…

For my compare and contrast essay I have chosen the painting “Sunrise” by Claude Monet. Claude Monet is an impressionist who painted with stress on color and light. Monet painted the “Sunrise” in 1872. This is during the time where impressionism was at its most potent. The scene is of a body of water possibly…

Many artists, authors, and composers have put the beauty and warmth of the sun in their work. The Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh created landscapes that expressed his joy with sunshine. The American poet, Emily Dickinson, wrote a poem called “The Sun” which she described the rising and setting of the sun. The Russian composer,…

The New York Museum holds most artistic works from as early as the impressionist movement. Among the pieces of art that impresses in the Museum of Modern Art is the painting “The Starry Night” done by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889. It is oil on canvas painting that depicts a night filled with swirling clouds,…

The Death of Socrates is a 1787 oil on canvas painting by Jacques-Louis David. At approximately 50 in x 77.2 in, the glorious painting hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of An located in New York City. It is a historical painting and like many of his works of an, it focuses on a classical subject,…

And it starts again, the episode where I’m again alone, alone with my thoughts. This episode of my life is totally based on being the ranger who wanders from place to place in search of peace, love, togetherness, harmony, compassion and betterment wander through the dark in search of light, searching for a ray of…

The literal definition of Renaissance is “rebirth”, and both Italian and northern renaissance is a great example of this. They had similar and different rebirth but they both had to do with culture, art, values, and beliefs. People in the italian renaissance focused on a person’s success and role in society, and this shows they…

George Washington crossed the Delaware in 1776, but the the image that’s conjured whenever the event is mentioned was painted in 1851 by Emanuel Leutze. Commemorating one of the defining moments in American history, Washington Crossing the Delaware has become one of the most iconic American paintings of all time. In his historic piece, Leutze…

Leonardo da Vinci lived from 1452 to 1519. Leonardo was born in the Tuscan town of Vinci. He was the son of a lawyer. Da Vinci worked under the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence. In 1438 he moved to Milan to work as an architect. In about 1495 he created The Last…