Category: Art 2722

Being a comparatively recent thriller, Midsommar has managed to take both critics and viewers by storm with its unique premise and stunning cinematography. The film is filled with scenes that can be used as an example of stellar filmmaking. However, one of the scenes stands out particularly strongly, offering the viewer an unusual perspective and…

Historys Greatest Impressionists and Historys Forgotten Impressionists are episodes from the documentary series The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution. They were produced by the BBC and aired in 2011. The episodes are devoted to the age of impressionism in European art. The narrator Waldemar Januszczak speaks about the history of impressionism, its style, and the main…

Robert Rauschenbergs Monogram is a combination of painting and sculpture. The central element of Rauschenbergs combination is a taxidermied Angora goat with paint on its face placed in the rubber tire. A black ping pong ball is placed behind the goat, meaning that the animal is defecated on the paintings depicted on the wooden platform…

Painting, as well as other forms of art, serves to convey the authors vision of the world. The choice of the plot is never accidental because painters want to share with their viewers the stories that agitate and captivate them. However, production is not the final step of the work. The further fate of the…

The Demoiselles dAvignon, an oil painting by Pablo Picasso, is considered a masterpiece work of art, from which Cubism began. At the same time, the faces of the nude female prostitutes that are depicted on the canvas have an undeniable resemblance to masks, which was typical of the African period in the artists work (Blier,…

HBOs Iron-Jawed Angels offers a vivid, if fictionalized, look at the history of the American suffrage movement in the early 20th century. The struggle for the constitutional amendment guaranteeing female enfranchisement faced considerable opposition from within the suffrage movement as well as without. White and black activists from different social backgrounds had to wrestle with…

Human beings evolved in various stages, Paleolithic stage being one of them. They drew images on the caves walls where they resided and then used small stone lamps that they made from animal fat to view the pictures. The art was a way of keeping information for future reference, and the positioning of the lights…

One of the most remarkable artists of the Rococo period was François Boucher, and his works represent the paining style typical for the artists of that time. However, his belonging to the most known Rococo painters is conditional not only upon his talent but also upon the outside assistance. The influential person that helped Boucher…

For centuries, human beings have been considered the most advanced species on Earth. First, their sophisticated organization and intelligence form part of this advancement. Such superiority can be said to be a human beings ability to express themselves through arts. Language, as one of the forms of human expression, has not failed to incorporate art…

Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese, is famous for his large paintings connected with mythology and religious topics. His techniques of fresh and innovative ways of painting were noticed and encouraged by many artists and art critics. Along with Titian and Tintoretto, he was considered an excellent artist of the Renaissance period. Many European and…