Henri Matisse The Open Window Analysis

Vicent Van Gogh once said, “If you hear a voice within you ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” Like most of Gogh’s paintings, Bonaventura Berlinghieri painted what he was passion about. Berlinghieri was “…know for his poignant and detailed scene from the life of the Saint Francis on the predella (based of the altarpiece) of the Church of San Francesco at Pescia” (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). The Saint Francis Altarpiece is a five feet panel, created in 1235 as a depiction of Saint Francis and the church. The portrait was painted on wood panel and in gothic like form. Nonetheless, this masterpiece is representation of time, the complexity of the painting and the

Peter Max is known as one of the most popular pop artists in today’s art circles. His work is easily recognized by bold and uncommon color and line choices, as well as the wide uneven brush stroke found in the majority of his work. “Vase of Flowers Series 60 Detail Ver. VI #40” is representative of Max’s work as a whole. It possesses the gradients, rustic brush strokes and the unusual color choices and gradients that have become characteristic of his style. This painting is able to redefine the “still life” painting; Max’s piece is abounding with movement and energy seen most easily in the choice of color as well as brush stokes.

The main focus of the painting is the architectural aspect. The scene is dominated by the main building and the large arched bridge that juts out in front of it. It is proportionally placed within the canvas. The width of the central façade makes up the central portion of the painting with the doorway being centered within the entire composition. The perspective of the painting, although not on axis, has the illusion of being balanced due to the centralized doorway and the aspect of the bridge being almost

This piece holds a very religious point in it since it was painted back in 1660. This painting is very low in saturation and it is very intense on the amount of objects that are in it. There are some geometric shapes within it as well. In this painting, there is a clock to show that time is limited. It’s a very dark painting in the face that there isn’t much hope in trying to outlive life.

Even the woman’s frame and posture seem to follow the lines created by the railings of the viewing box. The railings are also implied lines, the first thing our eyes go to is the woman, and then we follow the railings to the man who has his gaze set on the woman. The man’s gaze gives us implied lines that lead us back to the main focus of the painting, the woman. The artist also uses light and dark to guide our eyes to the important parts of the artwork. Most of the artwork is dark, while the woman and the man looking at her are in the light. This makes us instantly look at them. The wide space between the man and woman has no major distractions within in, the artist could have filled that space with some interesting art, but chose not to because it would have drawn the viewers’ attention away from the woman and man. The authors choice of color is quite plain, but the bright colors that follow the sides of the viewing box help guide the viewers eyes to the man in the background, assisting the implied created by the railings. The author used value in the artwork to show what is important. The woman’s body is heavily shaded and doesn’t catch the viewer’s eye. Her head and hand suddenly come into the bright light helping to show that her gaze is clearly on the show; the man in the background is also barely shaded helping to show that his gaze towards her is just as strong as her gaze is towards the

Archibald John Motley Jr.’s painting, “Mending Socks”, illustrates an elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair. She has a scarlet blanket loosely hung around her shoulders and is wearing a lace-bordered white apron. Above her on the wall is a wooden cross. In the painting she is repairing socks, hence the piece’s name. On the periwinkle table to her left is a small pile of olive green socks. The painting is oil on canvas and contains an extensive amount of contrast. For example, the bright vermillion blanket against the dull eggshell colored door. The disparity between the colors used is prominent. Additionally, the fusion of ornate patterns and simplistic solids is evident. The tablecloth is a geometric mixture of cream and periwinkle. However,

Bazin argues "only the impassive lens, stripping its object of all those ways of seeing it, those piled- up preconceptions, that spiritual dust and grime with which my eyes have covered it, are able to present it in all its virginal purity to my attention and consequently to my love. By the power of photography, the natural image of a world that we neither know nor can know, nature at last does more than imitate art: she imitates the

The brilliant hues of greens, purples, reds, and yellows that are strategically brushstroke on the piece give of a sense of impressionism. The characteristics of this piece capture the modern them of leisure activity. Caillebotte’s young cousin Zoe and brother Martial are depicted in this piece through the two characters. Both characters are dressed relaxed and have middle to upper class attire. The painting contains element of modern style through the scenery and garden. The heavy brushstrokes seen in the red flower bushes represent a feeling of realism. It’s as if you could physical touch the flowers. His details are more precise than Berth Morisot’s The Basket Chair, and show how more open male artist could be with their artwork. The scene seems to be during summer with the sun radiating off the garden gravel. The light change in the artwork from dark to light, displays a feeling from relaxation to adventurous and excitement. The male figure I the piece has a calm mood to him and wears a straw hat while reading a newspaper that demonstrates a sense of modernism. According to the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston (MFAH) Web site, “Capturing the specific light effects of midday, Gustave Caillebotte contrasts the cool colors of shade with the dazzling, flattening effects of direct sunlight” (2014, para. 1) Caillebotte creates a diagonal line that moves from the lower left

The last but not the least, Hopper incorporates formal elements like value, space and lines to display the double act of looking in Morning Sun. “ The model for the painting was Hopper’s wife Josephine. She was to be become Hopper’s only female model after their marriage in the mid-20s. At the time those drawings were made, she was 69 years old” (Theophanidis, 2014). As capturing the main character in the painting, a young girl with hair in a bun sits at the middle of the bed in a bare room. Both of her hands hold her knees, and the back leans forward. She is dressed up like a ballet dancer, looking outside of the window dully and staring at one point in the distance. Since the curtain is not pulled on the top, so a slice of sunlight is casted

Camille Pissarro is born in the U.S Virgin Islands in 1830. He is born part French and part Danish from his parents. He moved to Paris at the age of 12 to pursue his career overseas. During his time overseas, he became interested in the French Arts, especially in the philosophy of anarchism. Overseas, he also studies in different institutes to learn more about the arts. He also lived through the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, but his paintings were destroyed in the war. He moved from place to place to find inspiration for his painting around Paris.

In this artwork, Van Gogh uses strong vertical lines to give the sense of unease. These lines are present in the floor boards, the chair and in the wall. The lines give an unnerving feel to the room as vertical lines suggest that the room was not a place of tranquility, or calmness, but a rather gives a sense of despair. Furthermore, In the room there is also horizontal lines to suggest peace, and calmness. This also found on some parts of the chair. Theses conflicting uses of lines give the audience a sense of chaos and confusion in the world around the man. Van Gogh, predominantly known for his color usage also

Light coming in from the window is diffused and casts a faint, natural glow creating shadows around the oranges and the sandals sitting on the floor. The sandals are realistically detailed to the point where Jan Van Eyck has included wear and tear onto them. The eye is drawn to the female figure because of her vibrantly colored dress, which is a sharp contrast to the bright red bedding. Her outfit is a symbol of wealth and it would be fair to say she is the main focal point of the painting because that is the first thing the eye catches. The color of the dress and the excessive amount of fabric, as well as the assumption that the fabric is velvet or silk, signify their wealth. The application of detail on the bottom of the dress and gold cuffs also express the extravagance of the outfit. The male outfit, though not as vibrant, contains colors that would have been extremely hard and expensive to produce. Both figures have realistically painted fur placed around their necks and armholes. The attention to detail, texture and the vibrant colors give this canvas a realistic feeling, while the clothing and material items accurately represent their status in

Art is also able to make something unique through pay attention in creating abstract meanings of products. Henri Matisse, a painter, thinks the happiness is sheer and pure; it is a human right through his painting which is named Le Bonheur de Vivre. Comparing to the modes of movie, music and speech, this painting focus on using the color and simple lines to explain his happiness is. For example, this painting uses the warm color to draw all the subjects in the painting, such as trees, grounds, sky, and ocean (Matisse). Usually, people thinks warm color stands for happiness and cold color stands for happiness.so through the warm color used in the painting, the whole sense will give people a feeling of comfortable and happiness. it is what other modes may lack in their expression of determining what happiness is. Meanwhile, the distinctive part of simple lines is also make the theme of happiness preform. Trees and people in the painting are all made of curves which are simple lines (Matisse). In this painting, people will realize that there are lots of couples of people who are naked and lie down in the ground. The couples of people clearly perform happiness is human right because they can do what ever they want, even they choose don 't wear any clothes. For Matisse, his painting expresses the opinion that people can freely pursue happiness life and express their happiness

In the foreground, the head of a cow can be seen looking directly into a man’s eyes, most likely Chagall himself. Inside of the cow, a woman can be seen milking a smaller cow. In between the cow and the man, a town can be seen with a man walking on the street with a scythe. Below the town is a small sapling that is being held by a hand. The leaves are many different shapes including triangular, elliptical, and spherical. There is no source of natural light in the picture, and the direction of the artificial light is indiscernible. When a viewer first looks at the painting, they see the cow and man observing each other. Then, a viewer will notice the finer details of the smaller cow being milked, the man with a scythe in the town, and the sapling being held by gentle hands. The colors in the foreground are whites and greens, while in the background there are darker tones of green and black. The lines are curved and overlapping, suggesting wrinkles and folds in the cow and the

His art fit in more with the fauvism and cubism of Paris’s art in the early 1900s. He kept the same style yet adapted throughout the years, he even created the stained glass windows in the Art institute of Chicago in 1977.