John Singer Sargent: The Most Influential Portrait Artist

Andy Warhol is one of the many Pop Art artists, another is Roy Lichtenstein. He was born in Manhattan, New York on October 27, 1923 he died in the same city on September 29, 1997. Roy was involved in the Pop Art movement and is known for his painting and sculptures. When Roy was born, he was born into a Jewish upper-middle-class family. Lichtenstein’s Parent were Milton and Beatrice, the father was a real estate banker and his mother was a homemaker.

Just two years after he arrived at the Art Institute, he began to study Synchronism, which focused on the musical qualities of color. He then moved to New York in 1913 to experiment with his new found interest in Synchronism. He created beautiful pieces of art in his time in New York. Soon after he moved to New York, he was drafted for World War I.

Henri Matisse drew some outstanding paintings. In the beginning of the 20th century was the modernism era. It included amazing and famous painters, sculptors, draughtsmen, and printmakers. In this era an amazing artist was born called Henri Matisse.

Thomas Cole was originally born in Lancashire, England in 1801. In 1818 he and his parents moved to America. Cole’s father wanted him to be a lawyer. However, Cole self-thought himself in the art where he found his true passion on painting. Cole always found picturesque landscapes for which showed interest at an early age.

This style of painting was less serious than its predecessors and more about leisurely activities. Some were even slightly provocative. Due to the scientific advances printing artwork was becoming more popular. The artist Rembrandt became famous for his sketches’ of objects and animals. He was most famous for his self-portraits.

Van Honthorst’s use of line within this work of art, makes the girl seem to fade into the dark background of the image. The texture in this painting are characteristic of seventeenth century northern European art. The texture within this work of art are realistic as though what is in the painting could be touched and feel like silk on the sleeves of the dress and the feathers look like they feel soft and fluffy. There is a great range of value within this piece, the background of the painting is very dark while the girl in the painting has very pale skin making her stand out from the dark background. This image is asymmetrical, the way that the girl is seated and holding the oval portrait make the painting unbalanced, the image would be symmetrical if the girl was facing forward rather than a three-fourths view of her.

Thomas Cole was born in England in 1801 and moved to America in 1819 “in pursuit of a better life.” This is where Thomas Cole first found his immense love for painting. During his childhood, Thomas Cole dabbled in many different kinds of art including music, woodwork, and other unique art forms. When Thomas Cole

Johnson was born in Florence, South Carolina on March 13, 1901. Alice Smoot and Henry Johnson are the parents of Johnson, sadly his father became disabled while working as a railroad fireman. Johnson dropped out of school high school to support his parents and four other siblings. His dream career was to become an artist. Seventeen year old Johnson moved to New York to pursue the dream without being disrupted by the Jim Crow laws.

Magee was born in Newtown, Pennsylvania 1947 (Alan Magee, Davistown Museum pg. 1). He loved art all through school. In high school his art teacher made him further himself. One way of doing this was to have him draw every student in the 7th grade.

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452. He was Italian, and wrote right to left. However, even though he was an artist he was very interested in the human body and interested in how it works. First, in 1470 he went to Florence, while he was there he painted a picture of a young woman. The Renaissance was just now beginning and people liked paintings that had a lot of colors.

He adopted the role father in his family and four years later his mother also passed away which had a deep impact on him. He moved to Vienna to pursue arts in Vienna academy of arts but failed to clear the entrance exam twice. At that time he was poor and had a

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

Elegant and charming, an 18th-century painting shows a young woman who gazes straight in front of her and holds a basket of fruits on a rural background. However, the model is different from the traditional upper-class portrait painting because she is a black slave woman. 18th-century portrait painting 's goal was to illustrate a human subject for public and private persons, or the inspiration by admiration or affection for the person. It was often necessary to state and record the family as primarily commemorating the rich and powerful historically class in portrait paintings.

Each painting is unique, with a tactile presence, which reveals the hand of the artist. The image, which was the product of a split second drive by photo, now takes on substance through both the physicality of the paint, and through the contemplation of place and time. In this, the paintings come to represent more of a testament to her experience than the photographs. In the essay An Art That Eats Its Own Head – Painting in the Age of Images Barry Schwabgley acknowledges photographs place in contemporary art while also confirming the significance of painting, “ Although it was

The “Mona Lisa” is the best known and most visited piece of art. It is a portrait painting done by Leonardo de Vinci. The portrait is an oil painting on a white Lombardy poplar panel. The woman in the portrait is sat upright in an armchair, with her arms folded. This painting was one of the first portraits that depicted the sitter in front of an imaginary landscape.