ART F200X Blogs

    (Andy Warhol, "Marilyn Diptych," 1962, Acrylic on Canvas, 208 x 145 cm (82 x 57 in), Pop Art, Tate Modern, London, UK)      One of the known artists of the early postmodern art is Andy Warhol (1928-1987), "an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s who's mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States." (Wainwright). This work of "Marilyn Diptych" mostly look like it "explicitly references a form of Christian painting" which Warhol has got his inspiration from. Of course, the image was turned into something appropriate for that modern art and contemporary life.   (Andy Warhol, "Cambell's Soup Cans," 1962, Synthetic Polymer Paint, 51 x 41 cm, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, United States)     This painting was weird for me at first because why would Warhol paint this kind of things? Apparently one reason was because "he wanted a fr

 For this week's blog, I will be showing three different art pieces that is influenced by The Great Depression. As we know The Great Depression was one of the worse events that has ever happened in American History and many outcomes that comes with it is what made things harder, for the people of America, to live. To help put "light" in this depressing times, President Franklin Roosevelt has created the "Works Progress Administration"  Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975), " Approaching Storm ", 1940 Lithograph, 113/4 x 16 in. (29.8 x 40.6 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Anonymous Gift (1942) As we know one of the events that has happened during the Great Depression is the Dust Bowl. This drawing of the "Approaching Storm" by Thomas Hart Benton, has shown a scene of a farmer with his horse and farm field before the big dust storm has hit them. "Thomas Hart Benton was an America painter, muralist, and printmaker." (

For this Romantic Era blog, two styles that I have found to my liking are Romanticism and Art Nouveau. These two styles have things that I have found very interesting, and the painting were always so lovely in my eyes.  The first two artworks I want to represent are " Zodiaque ("La Plume") " by Alphonse Marie Mucha for the Art Nouveau style and " Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds " by John Constable for the Romanticism style. This first Art Nouveau art is called " Zodiaque ("La Plume") " which was created in 1896-1897 in a 63x47 cm (24 13/16x18 9/16 in.) Color lithograph from multiple stones on tan wove paper. When this design was created it was supposed to be for an in-house calendar for the company, Champenois, that Alphonse Mucha works under. Of course, this changed when chief editor, Leon Deschamps, of the 'La Plume' magazine bought the right to put it on the magazines 1897 calendar. Which then on "The Z

[Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), An Experiment on a bird in the Air Pump, 1768 oil on canvas,  72 x 96 1/16 in. Presented by Edward Tyrrell, 1863.]      The first art piece is called "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" painted by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797).  This oil painting was completed in 1768 on a 183 cm x (72 in x 94 1/2 in) canvas that is now housed at the National Gallery in London.  The story behind this painting is more terrifying than fascinating about what science can actually show you. In the picture, we can see a lot of different expressions being shown but I would say that it shows two different perspectives of things between an adult and a child. From the adults, we can see their fascination for what they have seen and learned from this experiment shown by the man in red robes. While we see disturbed looks by the children with what they seen. "The true subject of the painting might therefore be human nature as it is affected by the mate

I have decided to pick "Las Meninas"   (1656) by Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y for this week's Baroque Blog. This painting was created on a 320.5 x 281.5 cm canvas as oil painting and it is displayed at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. This painting was "one of Velazquez's largest paintings and he made more effort to create since it has a sense of life and reality while enclosing a dense network of meanings."  (“Las Meninas - the Collection - Museo Nacional Del Prado”). If we look at this painting, it will seem like they are looking at us, which makes it amazing and mysterious in what they are actually looking at.   The scene that was put for this painting was "carefully constructed using perspective, geometry, and visual illusion to create a tangible space, but one with an aura of mystery, where the spectator's viewpoint is an integral part of the painting."  (Owen). Velazquez not only "captured the physical likeness of his s

For this week's blog, I decided to pick Raphael's painting The School of Athens . This painting was made in the year 1508-1511 and its current location in Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, Italy. This painting was part of the Stanza della Segnatura series which is a "room in Pope Julius II's private apartments in the Vatican." ( Pulimood ). It was considered to be one of Raphael's most famous artwork pieces of the Renaissance. The Fresco painting itself was 500x770 cm (200x300 inches) and has a label above it that says "Causarum Cognitio" which means " Knowledge of Causes ". The first time I have seen this painting, the first thing I noticed was how amazing the linear perspective was used on the building, making it look like you can see farther. It looked so detailed, and it really looked like you were able to walk inside the painting. The used of both shadow and light on the painting, are really balanced out to show the perspective of where