Museum of Modern Art

Throughout Art History, it is apparent that techniques are established and flaunted to create some vivid image of a story, or a message. Up to the post war of World War II, art has delivered a scene which can be interpreted through context clues such as; current philosophies, current events, and folk-lore. Then, mainstream art had undergone a significant change in theme post World War II. New York City, United States of America, became the art capital of the world. Why? It is arguably due to Abstract

Vincent van Gogh which was created in June 1889 and is currently located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “The Starry Night” was painted during the post-impressionist period, and is one of several that Van Gogh produced while staying at the asylum in Saint-Remy in southern France. According to Soomo Learning (2017) the piece is "a vision of dynamic spiritual movement from temporality to eternity" (Section 2.4.2 Art Gallery). The painting depicts an imagined view of the town of Saint-Remy, with

Christmas Eve is a landscape oil painting housed in the George Innes collection at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey. This piece, created in 1866, is displayed on a square canvas with unspecified dimensions. The painting is set on a grassy terrain broken in half by a frosty dirt path that leads toward a forest. A black figure is placed at the beginning of this path that is lined with a low stone wall on the right. The sky is dark and cloudy, but clear blue air surrounds the full moon present

French artist Paul Cezanne portrays how even incomplete works are capable of depicting its own form of art and overall experience. His painting On the Banks of a River is constructed using oil on canvas and is an unfinished lifelike rendering of a natural scenery; well-preserved today at the RISD Museum. Cezanne’s process of painting and his techniques are clearly discernible in this early stage of art. Likely using a wide brush, his paint strokes are both purposeful and confident where his objective

essay, I would be demonstrating how the topic of contemporary art and the politics of art institutions reflects and relates to Rajni Perera’s 3 figures and VHT. With formal analysis of these artworks and readings from this topics, I would show the differences and similarities between these topics. Contemporary art represents what we see as individuals in society today, it does not follow the set rules of art. For instance, modern art looks and follows modernist theories, likewise, impressionisms

hospital where he suffered occasional relapse into delusions. While he was there, he was able to read, paint and withdraw from his room. As he was going through depression, Van Gogh then began to have hallucinations and even have thoughts of suicide. His art helped him stay emotionally balanced. He then started to paint The Starry Night, and used dark colors. For example, in the painting he clearly paints all the buildings dark and black and paints the stars and the moon brighter to make it stand out more

had a unique method of expressing himself on canvas. He was a post impressionist painter whose paintings portrayed emotionally evocative style through the use of bold colors and later swirling brush strokes. Throughout his life van Gogh worked on his art while battling mental instability which lead to his death in 1890 as a result of a fatal, possibly self inflicted gun shot. His most famous and respected paintings were completed in the final two years of his life. Van Gogh began drawing at a young

Modern art takes the best of artists and their art work and adapts it, adding new techniques and personal styles of each. When one carefully analyzes different pieces of art with openness to emotional impression and introspection it allows appreciation and pleasure towards other artists as well as their works. This paper will provide information on the artist Paul Cézanne and his work The Large Bathers, look into Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. It

and the relevance of surrealism as a movement in art history and to contemporary art would be a very interesting, but definitely too vast project. Therefore, this essay will focus on the origin of the brilliance of the two painters, Salvador Dalí and Rene Magritte, by focusing on the different approaches to achieve their status as masters of surrealism, emphasising their painted works only. Despite surrealism’s place on the sidelines of the art world throughout the 1950’s, it was clear that

sunrise. The dominating colour palette in the painting is dark blue and black hues oppose the bright whites and the yellows in the sky. The size of the painting is 29 in. by 36 ¼ in. The current location of the painting is in the galleries of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The artist keeps his main focus of the canvas to be the night sky, keeping a part of it as a village, depiction dark which gives the