Artists Essays

‘Paranoic Critical Solitude’ This painting was dated 1935. The artist Salvador Dali has used the media of oil paint on canvas. His palette is mostly sandy ochre’s and browns. There is some blue, green and blacks. The detail is such that it must have taken a long time to paint, …

I create art because this passion and curiosity has been with me ever since I was a toddler, running around and doodling on any surface possible. In this course I wanted to learn techniques that would help me improve my style. I wanted to broaden my creativity by creating abstract …

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor,printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he …

Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy. Born to a family of moderate means in the banking business, Michelangelo became an apprentice to a painter before studying in the sculpture gardens of the powerful Medici family. What followed was a remarkable career as an artist in the …

1.0Art Life history of Picasso Pablo Picasso is a Spanish artist and he is Small, muscular with radiant black eyes. Picasso was a master at drawing, painting, sculpting, graphics, ceramics, and theatrical design. His career spanned nearly the entire era of modern art, starting with the realism era in the …

In Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait entitled “On the Border of Mexico and the United States,” the artist evinces her sentiments on the disparity betweeen her homeland and America. Frida’s strong ideologies, persuasions, political views, and identity are interwoven in the painting. A picture of herself holding a Mexican flag on a …

The line, space, light, color and design may define the achievement of any given artwork. However, no one can deny that it is the greatness of the theme that makes the over-all effect and elicits the sublime reactions from the observers. The experience of gazing through the painting itself transcends …

Introduction The long standing challenge to contemporary Korean art is to establish a historical claim for itself as it developed in the implicit absence of a time-honored norm of modern Korean art. The job of Korean artists now is to distinguish Korean art from those of other countries. This is …

THESIS STATEMENT             Julio Gonzales was a renowned artist who pioneered the use of constructed metal structure and his work has greatly impacted on the works of artists today despite the modern advancements in technological art.  INTRODUCTION This paper examines the work and career of Spanish artist Julio Gonzales and …

The short stories A Hunger Artist and Bartleby the Scrivener illustrate two very deviant characters. They both represent the human being’s whimsical desire to rebel against social forces and community standards. In A Hunger Artist we see a man who refuses to accept the fact that times were changing and …