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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Both "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and the "Mona Lisa" are considered masterpieces of their respective periods; both painters were able to capture their subjects in a way that is both realistic and evocative.

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.

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

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 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 [...]

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.

The composition is dominated by the figures of the father and the son, who occupy the center of the painting, surrounded by bystanders in the background.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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.

Nevertheless, the whole mood of Waiting is highlighted not only by the figures of the women but coloring and composition of the painting.

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 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 [...]

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.

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.

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

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 setting of the painting is a prison that has arches on the window and an arch in the hallway. On the right-hand side of the painting, the orange tunic echoes the red and yellow [...]

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

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Moreover, Saturn is one of the planets and a representation of the Roman deity known as Kronos, who was in charge of time.

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.

Of all famous paintings in the history of humankind, Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper takes a very special spot, representing the pinnacle of both Da Vinci's artistic development and the progress of the Renaissance era.

The figure of the Prophet occupies the central part of the picture; the upper part is occupied by the image of heaven, God, and angels.

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.

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.

In Sherman's interpretation, Bacchus has most of the external features of the original, but the details alter the painting's context. The gaze of Bacchus in Sherman's painting is less ambiguous than in the original.

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.

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 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 [...]

Correggio's Assumption of the Virgin is unique in its complex composition which represents the details of Mary's Assumption with the help of clear foreshortenings and the perfect illusionistic elements which create the effect of the [...]

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.

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 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 [...]

It is considered that the body type of Adam and God was heavily inspired by the statue of the Vatican's Belvedere Torso.

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

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.

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.

The abstract art's primary aim is to use gestural marks, shapes, forms, and colors to achieve the effects of a visual reality rather than representing its actual depiction. As a result, they chose to express [...]

The boy is confronting the remnants of the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden, as is shown through the presence of the small snake and the walled 'garden' while the landscape behind him [...]

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 present essay explores the different aspects of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, including Picasso's desire to deny the then-existing norms, his role in the development of cubism, and the colors used in the painting.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Printmaking has given artists a distinctive and adaptable method to create images on a variety of surfaces, from woodcuts and etchings to screen printing and lithography.

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 lack of obstruction in the picture and the simplicity of the room used in the image depict the drama of the event.

According to Wolfe, the formation of such a drip-style of the artist was influenced by World War II events. I believe that having evaluated the context in which the picture was created and its significance, [...]

Thanks to the drawings discovered in the cave, a fantastic discovery was made: the animals that now live in hot African countries and the inhabitants of the northern countries once existed in one place, on [...]

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

They handled color quite differently, and their methods of creating shapes and shadows are unique to each artist to the point that each artist's work is easily identified from its unique treatment of the shape [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 painting's major themes encompasses Miro as the painting's painter and subject, political radicalism, positivity of western influence in the artistic styles of Catalan artists as well as the use of the varying artistic styles [...]

The ornaments on the floor, the decorations of the walls and the general atmosphere of the place leave no doubt of this setting being in a palace. The royalty of this place and the people [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

There is also a burning giraffe and a blue dog on the right, horse-women in the river on the left, and a box with a bust and a monster figure in the center.

Francis in Ecstasy is one of the brightest examples of Early Renaissance and, without any doubt, one of the best of Bellini's creations. Thus, the painting in question can be named a perfect imitation and [...]

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.

This paper will focus on analyzing the different styles of painting in the paintings Mona Lisa and The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci and The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo Buonarroti.

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 [...]

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

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

The impressionist series depicting the same stack of hay is notable for the ability of Monet to repeat the same them but to capture different atmospheres, times of day, and times of the year.

She incorporated the use of Mexican and pre-Colombian art work, imagery and concepts in some of her works which included "My Nurse and I", a self portrait that depicts Kahlo in the hands 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.

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.

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.

Asymmetrical balance applies to the painting as Christina is placed slightly to the left; however, her silhouette is balanced to the top right by the farmhouse in the distance, which creates harmony.

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.

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.

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.

In the art, the great wave is drawn so that its tips appear as small white claws that target to grab the men sailing in the boats. In the process of recreating the image, I [...]

It is stated that Tamara's self-portrait appeared in the next edition of a prestigious German fashion magazine after the editor was moved by the sight of her exiting her automobile in front of a five-star [...]

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 [...]

However, in this painting, he is portrayed not as a mighty warrior but a victim of a woman, the young widow Judith.

Millais uses the contrast between the brightness of nature and the darkness of the girl's blindness. This technique is used to highlight the contrast and depict the main idea of the picture.

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 [...]

Other ritual vessels in the country were decorated using the brush and ink; resulting in the flourishing of the brush painting in the country.

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 majority of the background is in a somber gray in color. There is a human face, from the neck up, slightly tilted to the right in the center of the painting.

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 comparison of John Constable's Hay Wain and William Turner's The Slave Ship that one can make is as treacherous as between the styles in which the painters worked.