Painting Essays

Philosopher Gernot Böhme once remarked: “Because of his polemic against Newton, Goethe’s theory of colours represents a scandalous episode in the history of science. The reaction today is formulated: “How could a mind so great, so all encompassing, be so wrong?” (Böhme 1987, 28) If Goethe was wrong then he …

            Both Kitagawa Utamoro’s “Girl Powdering her Neck” and interpretive poem by Cathy Song by Kitagawa Utamaro are very beautiful and more than capable of “standing on their own”.  Taken together the effect is both natural and intensely powerful.  The result is like looking at a photograph of a clear …

         Contained herein is an analysis of the depiction of Virgin Mary in Colonial Latin America, the scope period being 16-19th century. The analysis will specifically use the 1720 Virgin of the Mountain of Potosí painting to explain the significance of her presence. As a devotional image, …

Introduction: Photography and its contemporary relation to art of painting. They say Art is a product of the free mind. What we mean by such statement is that a free mind is more probable to wander farther into the realms of true art. From the start of civilization, painting (also …

When one looks at the painting “Fog” by Caliph Abdulmecid II, they see mist, or something like stubborn smoke, that lays low and thick just above the surface of the water, and a boat or gondola is emerging into the clearing.  There is something veiled by the fog, and with …

An attempt to determine Manet’s position by an analysis of the purely artistic values in his pictures –in this case we are concerned chiefly with the works of his early period–is particularly difficult because the material available is not sufficient to enable us to form a judgment as to the …

The landscape religious painting titled The Adoration of the Shepherds was painted on oil on panel that is attributed to an Italian artist, Giorgio Barbarelli, or popularly known as Giorgione (b.1477-d.1510).  This painting can be found in the National Gallery of Art in Washington as a gift from the collection …

Basic Facts;             James McNeill Whistler, (1834-1903) heavily influenced by Japanese artists, created aesthetic paintings controversial to the European audiences, but greatly appreciated by Americans. He spent most of his life in London, still considered an American artist. When he moved to Paris, he attended Navy based West Point Academy. …

1. Character a. Ann – John and Ann have been married for seven years. Although it may seem after that many years of marriage, the spouses would have great communication with one another, but that isn’t what it seems to be. Ann feels desperate and isolated in what seems to …

            In 1913 American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, best known then and today as a “religious” painter, finished the oil on canvas “Fishermen at Sea”. The intense and captivating painting is considered by critic Will South as “one of Tanner’s boldest works and one of his most mysterious” (South 5). …