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...

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 ...

 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 be...

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 colo...