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tetrahedral planetoide

Artist: MC Escher

Title: Tetrahedral Planetoide

Escher is officially my favorite drawing artist of all time. The second I saw this I thought "Escher found Atlantis and did not tell anybody!" It is almost like each point has what its adjacent point doesn't have. One has a concave circular stadium type structure, and its adjacent point has a convex dome that counteracts it. What is also cool is the illusion that in one vantage point it actually looks flat (if you focus on just the circle around it). However in another vantage point, when looking at the structures themselves) you can definitely get the 3D feel.

Yet another Escher Drawing=)

Artist: MC Escher

Title: House of Stairs

I chose this drawing for this week's post because I thought it was interesting how he made the stairs go in every direction. Not just left and right in a horizontal/vertical manner, but he also makes then go in and out of the page as well. He also somehow makes a set of stairs look like it doesn't belong while looking at a set of stairs right next to it. And then from another vantage point it looks like those same set of stairs belong more than another set in the entire drawing! And what is up with those alien looking centipedes?! Those along with the stairs make this drawing not only complex but slightly creepy. But I like it! 

Almond Blossoms

This painting was illustrated by Vincent Van Gogh. The medium utilized was Oil on Canvas it was conducted February 1890 . This painting currently resides at Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. This painting was created when Vincent Van Gogh got word from his brother that his nephew had been born and his name is Vincent Willem. Van Gogh made this painting to be placed above his brother and his brothers wife bed to symbolize new life. He chose an almond tree that blooms early in southern region which announces the coming of spring.  I like this painting because I love the way trees look and I really would love to be able to draw a tree so detailed. The story behind this drawing makes me love it even more. I like the usage of color and I like the shades of blue that were utilized.

Joan Miro

This is a drawing by Joan Miro called The Vegetable Garden with Donkey and it was created around 1918. Miro uses oil on canvas to create this work of art. Miro uses cubism here but I also thought it was interesting because it tied in with landscape sketches we just did. I liked how everything drawn into this is in its own cubes. I thought it was a real interesting piece of work.

"Venice Twilight" by monet

   

"Venice Twilight" -1908, oil on canvas


Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movemetns of philosophy of expressing ones perceptions before nature. He was Born in 1840 and died in 1926.This painting was focus on the cathedral and bell tower located on the cost of the island, the beauty of the island at sunset. This was one of Monets greatest series.

Dogs Playing Poker

This painting is called "Dogs Playing Poker" done by C.M. Coolidge. This was actually part of a series of 16 different painting that featured dogs playing cards and billiards. The series was done in 1903 to advertise cigars. I liked this painting because I've always found it funny, and after I did the research on it, I learned things I never would've guessed about it, which I think is pretty cool.

Georges Seurat

This drawing is called "Place de la Concorde, Winter." It was drawn in the late 1800's.  This drawing really emphasizes dark to light and light to dark.  It looks like it just snowed and he captured the picture the day after.  It is a very simple drawing but covers a lot of elements of art.

Richard Parkes Bonington

Richard Parkes Bonington was one of the great English landscape painters at the height of the grand era of landscape painting in the 1800′s, and a notable figure in the English watercolor movement. I find this painting interesting because it shows the landscape and ships sailing towards it like they are traveling to new lands.

Elaine De Kooning

Sunday Afternoon (1957)

This oil on masonite is meant to be a depiction of a bullfight in Mexico. On a trip there she was captivated by the movements. I love the way that the bull looks like it's standing still and everything around him is moving. The red of the cape and the heat from the ground. Possibly blood from the bull itself.

Op Art

This abstract piece was created by Victor Vasarely. This type of art is referred to as Op art, or optical art. Using simple geometric shapes, like squares and trapezoids, Vasarely is able to create a 2 dimensional design that appears 3 dimensional. In this piece, the square in the middle appears to be jumping off the page. The middle square is the subject of the piece, the part that draws your attention, while the smaller background squares help the piece to appear 3 dimensional. I like how Vasarely uses simple geometric shapes, but combines them in a way that they make a complex and beautiful design. I also like how Vasarely uses simple colors, with each square being outlined and filled in with a different color. For the colors, each one is associated with only one other. The most prominent examples of this are yellow-orange and lite blue-lite green.

Escher Eye

This Piece of art was constructed by M.C. Escher, and can be found today in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.  Eye is an excellent example of the technique referred to as globular reflection. This means that when Escher drew this sketch he drew it from looking at it in a reflection. In this case the eye, his own as a matter of fact was drawn from its reflection in a concave shaving glass. He says that he tried to “copy it as faithfully as possible.” Escher felt it was “necessary and logical to convey somebody, an observer reflected in the convex mirror of the eye” and so he decided to draw a skull because again in his own words, “we are all confronted with death whether we like it or not”.

Apocalyptic Landscape

This is Ludwig Meidner's (Germany, Bernstadt, 1884 - 1966) Apocalyptic Landscape, 1913. This painting is oil on canvas. Meidner intended this painting to depict the eve of World War I, predicting the violence, destruction, and devastation that was going to hit Europe at that time. This painting is part of a series of apocalyptic paintings that Ludwig produced. I chose this painting because it is an interesting take on landscape drawing that we are currently learning about in class. The colors and sharp edges of the figures demonstrate chaos and destruction. This powerful painting is definitely making a statement about how Ludwig feels about war, like it is an apocalypses.

Study of a Standing Male Nude

Gaetano Gandolfi was an Italian artist, a painter, etcher and a sculptor  He was born in August 31st 1734 and died in June, 1802. He was a student of the academy of Accademia Clementina near Bologna city in Italy. He was a successful artist, whose oeuvre includes about 220 paintings, sculptures, etchings, and a huge number of drawings. 
 I like this painting of Gaetano, because the body of the men looks so real. Gaetano applied the right colors for the skin color. Every muscle is well emphasized, it is even possible to the veins. I also like how he applied the light and the shadows on the body exactly where they should be, this therefore know that the men was under a bright light.

Rooms

Title: Rooms

Artist: Toba Khedoori

Medium: Oil and Wax on paper

In order to create this work Toba lays a rag paper on the floor and covers it with thin layers of wax, she then pins it to the wall and etches her images into the wax. This piece reminds me of a vanishing point work. I love how the doors seemingly never end, they just continue on and on. 

Italian Village Forge

This is a painting done by Heinrich Burkel, and it is called Italian Village Forge, which he created in 1832.  Burkel was a very successful landscape artist and he spent two years in Italy, where he created this painting.  What I like about this painting is the vivid color and the depth.  The background is decorated with mountains, while there is so much detail outside and inside the house.

Chuck Close- Mary Ann Raftery

Chuck Close is a revered American artist who is widely collected by major museums. In the late 1960s, Chuck Close’s realistic and heroically scaled portraits of his family and friends sent shockwaves throughout the art world that are still being felt to this day. Chuck Close's approach to the canvas was inspired by the non-hierarchical, all- over surface of American painting epitomized for him by the work of Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock.  After taking a picture of his subject, Close makes photographic prints that he uses to transfer the images to canvas. Utilizing a technique devised by Renasissance masters and adapted by contemporary billboard paints, Close overlays a working print with a numbered and lettered grid, and then reproduces the image block by block. 

Rooftops in the snow

French artist Gustave Caillebotte painted fascinating scenes of everyday Parisian life in a style melding Realism and Impressionism. This painting is called rooftops in the snow and was created in 1878.  I thought this would be appropriate because winter is coming and it has recently been snowing.  It is also similar to our project of the villa because of the detail and preciseness of the roofing, windows and chimneys.  I also liked that the snow on the rooftops is the most prominent in this painting.

Artist: MC Escher

Style: Surrealism

I chose this drawing by M C Escher because I feel his art surpasses the rules of physics. When he draws he seems to be able to make his subjects bend, twist, and act opposite of what the mind can comprehend. For example, in this one, he somehow gets the dragon to bite its own tail after it comes through its body and the head goes under and over its own wings! And what is really nice about this drawing is how he makes the background black with some soft white touches to make the dragon this main focal point of the drawing, which really marks the impact of the drawing. 

One of van Gogh's most popular and widely known series are his Cypresses. During the Summer of 1889, at sister Wil's request, he made several smaller versions of Wheat Field with Cypresses.^[168] These works are characterised by swirls and densely painted impasto, and produced one of his best-known paintings, The Starry Night. Other works from the series include Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background (1889) Cypresses (1889), Cypresses with Two Figures (1889–1890), Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889), (van Gogh made several versions of this painting that year), Road with Cypress and Star (1890), and Starry Night Over the Rhone (1888). They have become synonymous with van Gogh's work through their stylistic uniqueness.