Art F200x Blog - Keeler Larick

Our Vintage  by "@harcourtromanticist" (2019) Untitled  by Unkown (2019) HongKongers Stand as one  by "Phesti"     Works regarding the 2019 Hong Kong protests are unique to past works in some ways and very similar to them in others. Art inspired by the Hong Kong protests is closely interlinked with anonymity and internet usage. This is because for many their only safe way to participate in the protest was to show support for it anonymously online. As a result, it is sometimes difficult to gather information on artistic works that support the movement, as was the case with these works. The creators of  Our Vintage and HongKongers Stand as one  were only identifiable by their online handles, and the third artwork Untitled (not the name but I will continue to refer to it as Untitled for clarity) was unable to be identified by either an author or a name.     The first work, Our Vintage , is a direct reference to the French-Revolution era painting Liberty Leading the Peo

White Angel Breadline , by Dorothea Lange (1933) taken in San Francisco       Early modern period artwork and the great depression that influenced much of it is full of society's self-reflection on its place in nature as well as the industrial revolution.      The Great Depression was a time of widespread severe economic strife in the 1930s United States. Naturally, as art tends to express the experience of a society or group, art came to reflect those economic struggles.     White Angel Breadline  is a photograph taken of one of the breadlines that were common during the Depression. The photo shows both the young and old crowded together for what food can be provided. The pattern of the photo is broken up by a single man facing the other direction, which creates a focal point on him. Normally this kind of pattern breaking may be to show a difference, but here it just further illustrates the message present in the rest of the photograph. The man is wearing a old and very worn hat,

 Neoclassicism and Impressionism Evening Landscape with an Aqueduct , by Théodore Gericault, painted in France (1818) The Intervention of the Sabine Women, by Jacques-Louis David, painted in France (1799)   Neoclassicism is opposed to much of what the other styles from the Romantic era represent. Neoclassicism represents the older classical values of portraying things objectively and focusing more on how the world  is  instead of how people interpret the world.    Impressionist art is nearly the polar opposite of Neoclassicism, as it portrays  only  how a person interprets the world, even if that interpretation is distinctly different from object reality.   Even though the mediums of expression are quite different, I believe that both Neoclassical art and Impressionist art serve the purpose of transporting an experience from one brain to another through the vehicle of a canvas. The difference in my opinion comes in how raw the message being transported is. By rawness, I refer to how cl

The French Revolution and Art Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1830) Painted in France     This piece created by  Eugène Delacroix depicts an armed woman leading a ragged group of followers to victory against what can be presumed to be enemies of liberty. it was painted in the revolutionary environment of early 1800s France, after the first republic had fallen but before the second republic took power.     The painting is directly linked to, and inspired by, the French Revolution and its Enlightenment-era ideals. The ideals presented are that societies shouldn't be led by a small number of elites but rather by the consensus of the masses. That idea can be seen here in  Delacroix's work which shows a group of commoners led by a woman standing atop the French royal military.     Revolutionary ideals are the centerpiece of this painting, and the lighting, framing, and colors all support that centrality. The lighting and colors achieve this effect in similar ways. M

Saint Jerome Writing by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1605-1606)      This Baroque-era piece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio depicts Saint Jerome leaned over a script in his study, deep in concentration. The dark shading and highly detailed features of Saint Jerome are characteristic of the Baroque style of painting from the time. Saint Jerome is a Catholic saint from the 300s that had a large impact on the Latin translation of the Bible as well as church doctrine at the time.          I believe that this painting can definitely be seen as awe inspiring. The painting is more or less split into two main parts. There is a dark portion containing a skull, and an illuminated portion containing Saint Jerome and his holy scripture. The dark and skull represents eventual death, and the lighter parts of the painting represent things that live on without dying. The scripture will never die, and Saint Jerome has an eternal soul. The awe inspiring part of this is Saint Jerome's dedi

  Art Analysis of The School of Athens The School of Athens  by Raphael Sanzio (1509-1511), Vatican City     Raphael's fresco, The School of Athens , captures many of the essential aspects of the Italian Renaissance art style. The perspective and foreshortening of the fresco are used to bring the viewer's gaze to the main point of the art piece: Plato and Aristotle. Sfumato is also used all over the painting to aid the foreshortening in creating the illusion of a three-dimensional space on a flat wall.     The School of Athens  is one of a set of four frescos that were created to represent the "four branches" of knowledge. Fittingly,  The School of Athens  is the fresco that represents the branch of philosophical knowledge. This painting is related particularly closely to the Catholic reinvention of Rome.  The School of Athens  was painted as a fresco directly onto a well in the Vatican Palace. Raphael was commissioned by Pope Julius II, who was famous for his vision