Garden at Sainte-Adresse and The Oxbow The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an astonishing place where people from all around the world gather to see wonderful art objects that some of it goes back the early centuries and even before the born of the Christ. Fortunately I had the opportunity to visit it and examine with my own eyes two of the most wonderful painting that I have ever seen (Garden at Sainte-Adresse and The Oxbow). I would like first to talk about my trip to the museum and then I will describe the two painting in details and give my overall impression about them. I actually got lucky because my uncle was going to New York City so he took me with him and by that I saved time and I had more time to spend in the museum. At the heart …show more content…
“Garden at Sainte-Adresse” was of course made during the Impressionist period and “The Oxbow” was made during the Hudson River School period. The title “Garden at Sainte-Adresse” indicates that the painting show a grand in France (Sainte-Adresse). In this painting we can see the blue sky with couple clouds and the English channel under it. There are ships and the smoke is coming out of their chimneys in the English channel as well as canoes and all of that is in the background. In the front, there are flowers, green grass and an old man and a woman sitting on chairs. The man is holding a crutch and the woman is holding an umbrella. There are two empty chairs next to them. In the front there are a man and woman standing by the edge of this garden and how also have a crutch and an umbrella. There are two flags one of them is the French flag and the other is the flag of the town of Sainte-Adresse. On the other hand, the title “The Oxbow” doesn’t give a clear idea about the content of the painting. The painting shows a view from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm.There are some broken trees and some birds in the sky on the left and an oxbow lake on the right. We can see some hills and mountains in the background as well as sky and a majestic view of the clouds that can almost touch the ground with a small hidden
Some rocks are stretching all the way to the center of the lake, where some people and their cattle are standing. The whole painting don’t have any special focus because the artist didn’t give any part more attention. The whole scene seems clear and calm in a sunny weather. The sunlight comes from the top part of the sky behind trees around the lake on the right side of the painting.
The subject of this painting to me is a picture of the Pacific coast when a rainstorm is starting to come inland. The context is Indians on boats just gotten to the coast to avoid the storm that has already started at sea.
At a first glance, one can tell the painting is about the Virgin Mary. She has long, wavy, hazelnut brown hair that reaches to her mid back. The focal point is the cloak draped over Virgin
Margaret Olley and Van Gogh are two of the most well-known impressionists of their time. With more than a century between their eras, they both played significant roles in the progressing development of art today. Similarly painting still life’s and portraits, they also used the same media types and painted what they were surrounded by. For example, rooms of the houses they lived in, flowers and places they travelled. This comparative essay will compare and outline these two famous artists and the similarities between two of their most
I gazed at the little girl in the foreground; the reflecting glass in the mid-ground, and the evening sky in the background. The painting is sized at about 24 inches by 30 inches.
The Oxbow is done in a very large scale, giving the viewer a sense of actually being in the landscape and increasing its affect. The 4’ 3 ½” x 6’4” size of the painting gives it a sense of life and its size pulls you into the drama that is The Oxbow and allows every minute detail within the painting to be seen. The proportions of this painting are all pretty accurate and give the work its naturalistic quality.
This painting shows a Native American tribe on a snowy hill. They are watching a train pass by diagonally below them. The party appears to be travelling somewhere together. Several of the individuals are horseback riding while the others are walking. It´s looks like they are fleeing from something, almost as these people are vanishing away from reality.
The first thing to note is the overall composition of the painting. First and foremost it is a landscape painting. The colors are very monochrome; the space is stretched to reveal a depth to the painting that the eye cannot capture; and there is stillness to the art that embraces nature and serenity of life. In the right-hand corner of the painting there is calligraphy. The calligraphy lacks the precision, but is very clear in its form, much like the depiction within the painting
This painting shows how close and codependent humans and nature were. How well humans worked together with one another and their world. How peaceful those that are close to nature are, which is why it (nature) must be celebrated and appreciated.
The background of the painting is a
A blue cloth is flowing in the wind behind him, sort of draping off of his back like a cape. Behind him are a man and a woman farther in the background. The man is standing in the water while the woman is sitting on what looks like a porpoise. On both sides of the center three women are two men with wreaths on on top of their heads, and they are blowing into what looks like horns. On the right side of the painting are three more figures. One is a woman sitting on top of a rock with a white cloth underneath her bottom. Her back is facing towards the viewer and she seems to be looking towards the man on the other shell. She holds a green cloth on the top of her head with her right arm while resting on her left arm for support.There is also a tipped vase in front of the rock that is spilling water into the ocean. To her right is a muscular man holding a woman on his back. Behind the two is an orange yellow cloth flowing in the wind. In the front of venus is an cherub angel laying on an orange yellow cloth with it's arms around the head of a sea creature. Above the pink cloth that Venus is holding up are six more cherub angels. Some are dropping flowers down on the congregation and some have their little bow and arrows out. There is a lot of clouds in the sky behind them. On the clouds to the left is a chariot being carried by doves with another angel in it. The women figures and the angels are pale
The dimensions of the painting are 98 ¼ x 74 ½ inches. The painting itself was adorned with a large golden frame. Hill chose to used was oil on canvas as the medium. The scene is of a beautiful mountain valley somewhere in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. There are several people in the scene and it appears that they are having a picnic outing.
The painting depicts a scene from the Book of Revelations (6:12-17) where God opens the sixth seal on a scroll. A powerful bolt of lightning can be seen on the right side of the painting coming down from the sky and striking the rocks. The clouds in the sky above are parted with light shining through, this seems to symbolise God in this painting. In the foreground there appears to be a rocky cliff edge with people on it cowering in fear, praying and looking up to the sky. In the middle of the rocky outcrop a figure is standing with his hands up to the sky.
One of Paul Cezanne’s exquisite paintings was that of Mount Sainte-Victoire. Dating back to around 1902, Cezanne’s “mount of holy victory” painting has many unique characteristics that make it unlike other paintings of that time. Cezanne’s style encompasses many aspects of modernism within it. Modernism is the idea that the world is represented by experiences, rather than as one may have thought it to previously be. In this work of art, Cezanne uses a few contrasting colors and creates several implied lines that draw the eye to notice the volumes in which the space is filled.
As well as Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre, Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was inspired by and deviated from Cezanne’s great achievement. Cezanne’s landscape is a broad open field with the abstract females surround a pond as they bath with abstract surroundings, very much different from Picasso’s