Paintings Essay Examples and Topics

The image involves a half-body portrait of a woman, and the enigmatic smile of the lady reflects the artist's idea of the connection between nature and humanity.

The naming of Mona Lisa and the Last Supper paintings is based on the themes represented in the paintings and situations at the time.

Impressionists showed the development of the urban environment at the end of the 19th century. Monet was the representative of impressionism, whereas van Gogh represented post-impressionism.

Daniel Strobel, Jr.and Her Son, George is one from the pair of neoclassical portraits of the Strobel family Daniel Strobel, the American Diplomat in France, and his wife, Anna Church, the daughter of the first [...]

In concluding the review, the critic denounces Banksy's creations as works of art and generally sees the rise of Banksy as the fall of art1.

Cimabue's paintings has many of the similar Byzantine icons of the era and some of them are folds in the garments are pressed and almost standardized, the halo is golden hue and plate sized, all [...]

The Creation of Adam painting is the most notable as can be seen in the frescoes of the Sistine chapel. Michelangelo uses the enlarged figure of Adam and God in this painting so as to [...]

The cultural influence on the theme and manner of the work The Starry Night presented by the author can be evaluated through the complicated world look of its nature. The exaggeration of the drawing lines [...]

The telegraph cable that the woman is stretching across the continent, the book in her hand, the trains and the ships, and the bridge on the right everything is empathizing the progress of the European [...]

Aaron Douglas was a bright representative of the Harlem Renaissance, a movement that appeared in the first half of the 20th century and was aimed at attracting public attention to problems of African American people [...]

The emphasis on the big bright sky may represent Van Gogh's desire to fly away from his reality and embrace the light of the starry night.

One of the most famous female nudes in the history of art was the Spanish painting called 'The Nude Maja' done by Francisco Goya. Thus, the artists of the Renaissance brought about the rise of [...]

The shape of the counter follows the shape of the corner of the building and is curved at 90 degrees angle. Such a positioning of the counter allows the viewers to see the front and [...]

This paper will provide a rhetoric analysis of the Mona Lisa painting, because it has rendered its audience into a redundant situation where the individual who admires this painting always ends up in his or [...]

Different colors represent different emotions and feelings in a work of art such as a painting; perhaps one of the most important facts in the use of color is the ability to actively involve the [...]

Following is a depiction of the painting: This painting was chosen because the innocence on the face of the girl can be related to one's self and moreover, the choice of colours that Vermeer has [...]

The images were painted in the 20th century in the backdrop of the rising pressure in many parts of the globe for the government to embrace gender equality.

Finally, graffiti is a form of expression and inhibiting it denies young persons a voice and the right to express themselves.

Artist and designers use the term painting to refer to both the act of and the result of painting. The "Heart of the Andes," is a landscape painting and was done in 1859.

The kind of body art may be limited to one's gender because in some communities certain arts are limited to one gender.

The guiding lines are the instruments, and the line of sight of the characters, convening at the man. He accomplishes the illusion of space by overlapping characters in the foreground with the house in the [...]

To conclude, in his "Notes" Matisse touches on the most serious issues of art, such as the expression of a painter, the role of color and nature in art.

Contemporary theoreticians dispute the origin and meaning of subculture as a social phenomenon, analyzing the sociological parameters of the groups of population and their primary motivation for deciding on self-expression in the form of subculture.

The artwork is the most iconic and celebrated of Klimt's paintings that the artist did during the peak of his career.

One can argue that the street and the four people in the diner who do not seem to communicate are a part of the artist's perception of the loneliness in the urban society.

The most notable artistic technique used in the painting is the use of color, which is used a symbol of solitude.

The successful prostitute was a woman in control of her destiny as compared to the most powerless women of the age.

Jackson Pollock mastered this technique and while such paintings look like a mess of colors, careful inspection reveals that the paintings have very intricate patterns that put a living form for the painting.

The most "sound" in the context of "femininity" and "masculinity" are the pictures The Oath of the Horatii, The Death of Socrates and The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Songs and The [...]

The print is particularly referred to as Red Fuji which presents an uncompromising visionary element of the mountain in the absence of humans.

The mirror-reflexion of the two Fridas constitutes the foreground of the painting. The two figures on the picture are being either linked in the inner world, which is being illustrated by the unity of the [...]

The prominence of the Black Madonna is majorly due to the miraculous character it poses to the pilgrims. Since the black Madonna is a representation of the Virgin Mary, there are people of Catholic denomination [...]

When looking at the picture, the variation of colors is such that one can easily identify the background. The ambiguity of the painting is very amusing.

The woman seems to notice the presence of the young man in the bushes, but the husband does not. It appears that the position of the event is somewhere in the bushes, which indicates the [...]

Raise the roller and move it along the slope of the pan severally to a point just below the well to allow the paint to flow into the roller.

There is in much painting of the era a new impression of limitless power, of figures bursting out of the frame of paintings.

The author of the painting is Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, a Spanish painter who lived and worked in France in the first half of the twentieth century.

In order to discuss the style of Ingres, one should look at the difference between his earlier and later works because this comparison can throw light on the evolution of his style.

The lower third of the painting shows a grassy area, and the other two-thirds contain the figures of a woman and a little boy behind her.

Speaking about the range of colour which can be seen in this painting, it should be said that it is rather varied and features basic colours such as blue as the main colour for the [...]

In the beginning of the period of Renaissance a lot of restrictions were placed on the women that saw the Western society witness a decline and invisibility of female artists.

Several details in Vincent Van Gogh's 1889 artwork Corridor in the Asylum catch the viewer's attention, but the lone person in the central area of the picture is perhaps the most prominent.

In the foreground of the painting, the viewers can see two men one facing the audience and the other one facing the street.

This movement appeared in France in the 1840s as a reaction to changes in the government, military, and economic spheres.edouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, Ilya Repin, Edward Hopper, and other representatives of early realism contributed significantly [...]

Both the painting and the poem encapsulate the feeling of veneration in the face of life and death. As in the case of Asher B.

A combination of hues of a certain color is defined as a chromatic value. Different chromatic values of blue and yellow are used in To Donna by Flavin.

It is one of the masterpieces of the Renaissance embodying the typical lines and techniques of that period. The main figures are in the center and at the bottom of the composition, which helps to [...]

Thomas Cole created the painting in such a way that the tower is situated between the sunset sky and the stones.

Hieronymus Bosch's The Last Judgment triptych uses the three panels of the painting to represent the three biblical events that predict the terrible end of humankind: the Fall, the Judgment Day, and the eternal Death [...]

He also drew the image of "Death" in his masterpiece painting The Death of the Grave-Digger from her. The figures of the woman angel and the old man standing inside the grave are in the [...]

The author states the major problem of humanity that is the meaning of love and our understanding and comprehension of it.

Two of the greatest artists of all time, Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo are very much noted as the masters of the two greatest qualities of craft and communication.

Analyzing Greenberg's work requires three components: reviewing his arguments, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the text, and showing examples of art that demonstrate the author's principal points.

The shade and the voluminousness of the vase and the sunflowers give an impression that one sees it with one's eyes.

In addition to properly chosen techniques and materials, the artist was able to create a story with the past, the present, and the future.

It is argued that while stylistically, the two artworks share some similarities, the subject matter of the paintings is different, which is validated by the shifts in cultural contexts surrounding the painters.

The iconography of the painting tells a story of masculinity and femininity while leading the audience to the times of Art Nouveau's popularity.

The complexity and creativity of the compositional process with which the painter applies the themes in the picture-puzzles are a rather personal achievement, and the many later copies serve to show Arcimboldo's true originality in [...]

I also noticed that most of Fazzino's creations have glitter on the edges, a technique that I liked and decided to use in my creation as well.

The essay explores the strengths, elements, and styles of the artwork. Leonardo da Vinci uses the best elements of art and principles of design to give the painting "Ginevra de' Benci" powerful themes such as [...]

The interpretation of some signs which are not seen at the first glance, such as the backward bend of the left elbow of the man and his eyes which can be only partially seen over [...]

This painting, written within the framework of romanticism, is one of the significant of Friedrich's works and a symbol of romanticism, embodying the spirit of the era and the peculiarities of the author's style.

The main peculiarity of his art is that he "is widely recognised as the foremost painter of Australian suburbia"2. His artwork Family home: Suburban exterior can help us to understand the main motif of his [...]

This painting is incomparable for its use of space all over the canvas, and the application of dimension in the form of space is unique.

The painting therefore develops a protection theme in which the mother is perceived to be protecting the children from the dangers of the city.

The painting is called Hope II, which indicates that the artist wanted to emphasize not the doom and sadness of the death of a child but the hope of the women depicted in the painting.

The mouth of the lady is depicted by a line that is somehow excessively curved. Further, the scale employed in the paintwork exacerbates the artist's sense of loneliness.

His important works include: The Disrobing of Christ; The Burial of Count Orgaz; The Agony in the Garden; View of Toledo and Laocoon.

As in Rubens' other paintings of the same genre, The Crowning of Roxana also made use of rich texture and vivid clash of light and shadow.

Although the first painting is a symbolic self-portrait and the other one is a realistic portrait of a woman, both of these works strike the audience with the powerful depiction of the women's experience of [...]

Bruegel's paintings portrayed the life of peasants during that time.'The Children's Games' and 'Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap' are some of the most famous paintings of the artist.

Painted by Lucan Cranach, the Elder, the Ten Commandments is the depiction of the lives and times of the people in the 1500s.

It formulates the conceptual framework of the selected work and the other ones, namely the impact of the world, the audience, and the artist's life.

It is now displayed at the Uffizi, Florence, and is considered among the best paintings depicting the Medici family members in the role of the Magi and the Virgin.

The poster mimics the design of the Sun Maid Raisins box. Salvador Torres The origin of the picture is the poster by "Sun Maid Raisins" corporation.

This painting by John Gast "might not convey the facts and aspects of the country's history". The "railroad lines and wagons presented in the painting say a lot about the country's economic position during the [...]

The first use of gold leaf can be discovered in his paintings even before the Golden Phase: in 1898, Klimt painted Pallas Athene borrowing the methods of classical myth iconography and emphasizing the divinity of [...]

Her face and the pink dress she is wearing are the points of focus in the painting, which is the reason for the title of the painting called The Young Woman with a Pink Dress.

The use of complementary colors, which became the signature of Van Gogh's style, helped to intensify the mutual effect of the color scheme in the paintings.

Guernica is a painting by an influential 20th-century artist, Pablo Picasso, that was created in 1937 in response to the bombing of the city of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War.

This picture made me interested in what was depicted in it from the first sight because its composition was attractive due to the wide range of shades and the scenery that can never be witnessed [...]

The portrayal of a mirror in work is what has interested me the most. Manet paints a lifelike view of a bar and adds the mirror to present the unexpected ambiguity.

Among the works worthy of analyzing to understand the main components of art is Andy Warhol's portrait of Marilyn Monroe, which emphasizes the two-dimensional and colorful nature of the piece.

Her paintings at that time consisted of black and white geometric ornaments that explained the dynamics of the field of view and disoriented the eye.

The work depicts one of the most significant boxing matches in the history of the sport in the 20th century and is probably the most famous painting of the author.

The painting conveys the act of the second come of Christ, and the apocalypse. It is explicitly seen the way Christ is depicted in the light, in the middle of the painting; just the way [...]

Each of the paintings surprises with its uniqueness and expressiveness, but the sense of the paintings is even more striking."The Course of the Empire" changes the ideas of American people about other nations and their [...]

Pablo Ruiz Picasso When the discussion comes up about the subject of the monochromatic color schemes, I usually think of Picasso and his famous "Blue Period", especially about "The Old Guitarist" painting."The Old Guitarist" painting [...]

Despite the fact that the bombing of the town was Picasso's major motive for creation Guernica, in the painting, there are no scenes of bombing, no explosions, and no direct images of the ravages of [...]

The greatest and an interesting facet of the image is the placement of the orange sun, which, despite being small and one that covers only a small area in the image, is contrasted to the [...]

The piece conveys the horrors and losses of the event dead adults and children, a horse in agony as an important symbol in Spain, and the suffering of survivors are present here. In various ways, [...]

While the painting shows Emperor Jahangir of India and Shah Abbas of Persia embracing and is an allegorical representation of the friendship between the Mughal and Safavid empires, at that time there was an uneasy [...]

Ultimately, Guernica by Pablo Picasso is one of the most significant art pieces in Cubism that takes inspiration from historical and stylistic influences.

The object in the picture is three-dimensional, practically does not interact with the light, is only under a direct source in the form of the sun.

Moreau's work depicts this tragic plot and indicates the theme of the difference between humans and the divine by portraying Jupiter and Semele on the border of heaven and the underworld.

The Madonna of the Meadow is one of the numerous compositions of the Virgin with the Christ child that the young Raphael created to establish his reputation as an artist when he arrived in Florence [...]

In contrast to Donnel's opinion in terms of space, he believes that this is the main weapon of modernist art where the painters were able to demonstrate the play of colors, which is the main [...]

Diffused description of the main details on the picture emphasizes the strong motives of Munch to develop a realistic picture of how one can imagine the horror and in which perspective can one look at [...]

The mood is reinforced by the strong brush strokes used on the sky and the artist's intentional blurring at the edges and the trees.

The chapel is located in the Vatican and is one of the most illustrious artworks in the western world. The entrance to the chapel is marked by two frescoes which symbolize the last episodes of [...]

In the far distant center of the painting, is a mountain, still and motionless, in contrast to the dynamic furious sea wave. The shape and size of the wave create the imagery of force in [...]

One of the most peculiar things about the narrative framework of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling is the order of the frescoes, with the final one referring the viewer to the beginning of time and the [...]

The nature and appearance of the painting provide evidence of the artist's adherence to the European Renaissance, especially the Northern Renaissance in the 14th to 16th centuries.

One of the most striking dissimilarities between the two crucifixes is the fact that the Gero crucifix seems more "human" while the one from the Lindau Gospels seems to depict Jesus as more of a [...]

The style is realistic, in that the viewer has no doubt that the object in the picture are human figures, female, and that they are standing on the ground in a real landscape.

In spite of the fact, the author of Triptych of Madonna and Child with Angels is anonymous, the researchers are inclined to agree that the works of the author of the Legend of Saint Lucy [...]

The Birth of Venus is a famous painting produced in the year 1863 by a French painter Alexandre Cabanel. This paper analyses the painting The Birth of Venus and gives a brief background of its [...]

The work depicted the scene of the last supper as illustrated in the Bible. The person in the center of the picture is Jesus Christ.

In depicting the dimension, the shape of the painting is enhanced by the boundaries of the window and the soap bubbles.

The word painting will also make us wonder whether the painting was done during the Renaissance period, the Middle Ages, or another period. Edgar Degas' was influenced by the painting of famous painters.

The painter had a vision of ensuring that his work reflected the real life activities of the people viewing his work.

They exemplified the trend in French art termed Modernity, defined by the poet Charles Baudelaire as a pursuit of "the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent"1.

With the help of various elements of art, the artist creates a picture of a biblical plot, which is of value for the study since it touches on such a new topic for that time [...]

The public recognizes the 1893 version of the Scream painting, which was created on cardboard using crayon and tempera. In The Scream, Munch again emphasizes his interior condition rather than the surroundings by using a [...]

Specifically, the light blue palette that dominates the painting evokes the feeling of sadness, yet the choice lighting, namely, the decision to avoid substantially dark elements, in general, and place the source of light outside [...]

Two children are shown in the middle of the image: one is a black girl, and the other is a white boy.

The aesthetics and experience of art inspire modern artists and impact the emergence of new works created under the influence of past works.

The Mona Lisa picture above is written with the use of paint and pigments using the brush and sponges and it is an original copy of the world's greatest work.

At the very center of the image are representations of Aristotle and Plato, two of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of Ancient Greece.

Overall, the painting Old Man in Sorrow by Vincent van Gogh is an excellent portrayal of the frustration, grief, and loneliness experienced by the artist at the end of his life.