Essays on Famous Artists

The statue of David is a world-renowned statue created by the Renaissance artist and sculptor Michaelangelo from 1501-1504. This statue stands massive at 17 feet tall, carved from a solid block of white marble, weighing in at an enormous weight of 12,478 pounds or 6 tons. This beautiful sculpture is host to many outstanding features...

Painting, whether done through the mediums of oil, fresco, or watercolour works to express particular ideas and emotions on a two-dimensional surface. Paintings use various elements such as color, tone, line, shape, texture, and most importantly space which work together to make a piece function in its entirety. Space works as an element inside a...

Introduction This essay will examine Frida’s work named self-portrait with cropped hair from the viewpoint of identity. Identity is the way that individuals perceive and express themselves (Swann, Polzer & Seyle, 2004). In other words, it is about answering the question: “Who am I?”. Different factors that people are born with like sexes, bodies, as...

Introduction Claude Monet’s Bouquet of Sunflowers is an oil on canvas, portrait painting. The dimensions of the painting are 101 x 81.3 cm. Currently, Bouquet of Sunflowers is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 819. Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers is also an oil on canvas, portrait painting. Its dimensions are 95 x...

Vincent Van Gogh is considered one of the most well-known post-expressionism artists of his era. He was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland on March 30, 1853, and grew up in a religious and cultural background (Van Gogh Gallery, n.d.). He lacked self-confidence and was temperamental, and in his early years he believed that his true purpose...

The Seine at Lavacour was created by Claude Monet in 1880. Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. He first was famous by drawing the residents in his town, his talent showed up obviously, caught the attention from Eugene Boudin, a local landscape artist. After meeting with him, Monet started to...

Impressionism is regarded as one of the most influential and innovative art movements throughout the history of art to so many artists. This art movement had originated in France during the 1870’s thanks to artists like Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, and Edgar Degas. These artists are celebrated for being independent of the academic...

Looking at the workmanship of ideality and the real ancient rarity, we will find that the results will typically differ widely as shown by the viewer’s eye. In order to force judgment as to whether a work of art can achieve the status of a perfect structure, one should first understand the reason behind the...

Females in the Nude was a topic that was approached lightly. Three common nude paintings were Édouard Manet’s Olympia, painted in 1863, Edgar Degas’ The Tub which was painted in 1886 and also Paul Gauguin’s Spirit of the Dead Watching, painted 1892. All three paintings and artists are different in their own right but they...

Andy Warhol is a renowned American painter, filmmaker, draftsman, and printmaker born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Historians regard him as a prolific figure of his time that enthralled the international audience with his aesthetics, appearance, and attitude towards the pop art movement. The artist is well-known for his expertise and experience in commercial art....