3 posts tagged “art”
Here are some more paintings that I studied in Art History that I really liked:
Impressionist JM Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold"
*(I can't help almost saying Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure every time I say/write the title of this painting. Thanks Steven Colbert!)
Dega's "Ballet Rehersal"
Monet's "Rouen Cathedral"
Kandinsky's "Improvisation 28"
Munch's "The Cry (Scream)"
(I like this one more for the meaning behind it than because it is a urinal that is considered art. It is a Dada piece that is "ready-made" which basically is when an artist takes something that is normal and regular in every day life, takes it and puts it in a gallery and it is called art. Really there is more behind the meaning of it)
Show us your favorite work of art (fiction, music, sculpture, painting, architecture, dance, etc).
Submitted by Dean.
Hmmm this is a really hard one. Since I am taking an art history class I constantly see art and I always change my mind as to which one is my "favorite". Right now we are studying the Romanticism time period in art. Therefore I have seen a lot of Goya's paintings and though this one freaks me out there is something about it that draws me in and I just really like it.
This semester I have been taking art history from 1400 C.E. - modern day. I really was dreading it, not because I don't like art, I just figured it was going to be a dry boring class going "Look at this painting, what is it composed of, how do you feel looking at it, etc." I was wrong though. I absolutely LOVE the class. It is so interesting and I love looking at and analyzing the paintings/sculpture/architecture. So far we have gotten through the Early Renaissance in Northern Europe (Flanders) and Italy, as well as some of the High Renaissance in Italy. I have learned about artists I never new existed and I finally learned how to tell what is a Renaissance style painting and what is Medieval painting. I love knowing the little techniques they use and how they put secular themes and ideas inside religious paintings (sometimes without the church knowing). Here is my favorite painting, actually it's an altar piece, that I have seen so far:
