Tony Robbin Analysis

Chinese painting has been the major art form within Chinese tradition throughout centuries. Their paintings distinguish themselves from other art forms from different countries by their use of ink to emphasize motion and bring liveliness into a two-dimensional piece. In order to understand the old and ancient practices of Chinese painting, one must look towards Xie He’s Six Laws (or Methods) of Painting. In a demonstration of He’s six methods, Han Gan’s Night Shining White (short handscroll, ink on paper, early 8th century) not only is able to capture the physical representation of his subject but also the spiritual energy as well.

Focal Press.) In visual art term, value refer to the lightness or darkness. In painting, value can be seen through the gradient or hue of color that has been used to form an image. There is a technique which known as chiarascuro where painters in the ancient time explored ways of making their images more believable, they

The whiteness of the art piece could refer to the 17th and 18th centuries’ practice of removing color from Greek, Roman and Byzantine art for its “purity”. The texture of the board and the acrylic paint are similar to the rough popcorn ceiling paint and spikey feel to it. The hydrocal/plaster looks as if it used to create the top of the 9 sided dome and the faces. The edges of the dome and the building have a sharpness to it because of the illustration board. The lighting in the gallery accentuates the sharpness and the texture because it is white.

If you look to the top left of the portrait you should notice a diagonal stroke that makes its way through the whole piece. The painting centers on the model’s eye to create an emotional connection. The line work in this painting is used to outline the entire scene. The lines in the background all seem to fan out but point in towards to model forcing you to focus on her being the center of attention. The chair that the model sits on helps to separate her from the background chaos that is happening within the portrait.

This is yet another abstract nonrepresentational piece by Pollock where he used slashes of enamel paint that he slung on the paper. To me it looked as if Pollock was trying to express in his artwork a message, however that message was written in a language only he could denote. This made me think of how sometimes you feel a certain way but you are not able to express it through more traditional forms of media or art. Some of the visual elements used our contour lines used throughout the portrait, value contrasts between thick buldges of enamel paint to thin smears, and the color black which is the only color used adding to the mystery theme of the overall piece. Some principles of design I observed were balance and harmony.

The first difference between Monet’s garden and Picasso’s garden is artist’s background information. Background information is a general fact of the artist himself, which will provide audiences the better interpretation of painting toward each unique painting style. Claude Monet, French artist, was one of the pioneers of impressionism in 1860s, mostly created his artworks in a well-known “plein-air” painting style (Perry, 1927). Impressionism, in fact, derived from his artwork entitled “Impression, Sunrise” which gave its impression in terms of conveying feeling to most viewers as they were in the same situation (Dempsey, 2002). In general, impressionist art focuses on capturing the natural surroundings in a brief moment and shows in a rough style of painting (Grant, 2010).

I later found out that Bierstadt loved to paint paintings that had dramatic weather, saturated light, colors that verged on expressionistic, rocky mountains, Oregon trails, virgin landscapes, scenes of native Americans, and a bit more. This painting may symbolize dramatic weather because of the setting and all of the details that’s in it. Bierstadt had gathered the materials he needed to paint a painting of a place that he could identify as Puget Sound. Bierstadt’s artwork “Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast” was successful. It was a great painting of a storm approaching some working people on land.

Symbolism in general is the building blocks to all sources of literature and can shape a piece of writing in many ways. Symbols in general can portray what something or someone represents, giving a deeper and metaphorical meaning to a symbol. Symbolism is often used within poetry, literature, music, or even art. This is how an author conveys a different meaning to the audience. For example artists may use the color “red” not only because of the color theory, but to convey love, passion, and maybe even health.

• Texture: Looking at the Bauhaus movement I saw that a visually implied texture is captured. The geometric shapes are a nice examples of implied texture. De Stijl

In order to achieve this three-dimensional effect in the painting, the artist uses chiaroscuro in the drapery of Mary and the Saint’s

In Frank Romero's mural "Going to the Olympics,1984" what you see is various of colorful cars on the freeway or road and on top of the car there are hearts on each one. The possible meaning of it is because everyone does love their cars. Also in the image there is a blimp that says "A Good Year" mostly because it was related to the olympics or a form of advertisment. You also see some wrestlers, and a iron. The wrestlers I would say that represent the olympics and the iron is a flying iron back then was used as a spaceship in the movies as i was told.

The El Paso Museum of Art had a lot of interesting artwork that caught my attention, however the one that stood out of the most was a color lithograph painting called “We Love, We give, We Die, We Go Someplace, We Love” by Bert Long. Bert Long is an American artist, born in the Fifth Ward in Houston, Texas in 1940. Long was named the Texas Artist of the Year in 1990 and studied under the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in 1990 and 1991. The painting created by Long was made in 1996 and is a Color lithograph. This piece of art is part of The Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection.