MFAH assignment

Artist Name: Childe Hassam

Title: Rainy Midnight

Date: Late 1890’s

Materials: Oil on Canvas

Size:  8 5/8 in x 7 in

This is a small piece of art that really caught my eye at the MFAH. This appears to be a picture of a rainy night in New York City. I love how Hassam used warm colors to depict a cold, hazy, rainy night. His drawing only consists of maybe 3 or 4 colors. The use of his brush strokes really separate and help identify each part of the drawing. This is conveyed with his use of straight up and down brush strokes for the lights, he then used angular strokes for the street and the reflection of the lights on the ground, and he also used strokes from left to right on the carriage. His trees and the person driving the carriage are also noticeable due to the way he used his brush. I also notice he uses the one point linear perspective and a vanishing point. The street and the buildings are aligned perfectly to where they would meet at a certain point further back in the background. I really enjoyed how the reflections of the lights have like a glossy way of standing out on this picture. I attribute this to the materials used on this painting i.e. watercolors and oil. I also feel he used hatching throughout the painting to demonstrate a sense of volume and closeness with the carriage. He also needed the use of value with his color scheme to portray what parts of his piece were closer and which were further back in the background.

The title of this piece would make it an abstract painting. Hassam was an American artist that lived from 1859-1935. He was considered and extreme impressionist and the way he used light and atmosphere is his drawings was astonishing. I believe this painting can be classified under a couple of roles of art. It can be seen as helping people see the world in a new innovative way. This helps show how rain, wind and mist is a beautiful part of life. I can also see this painting being define as recording people, places and events. This is a portrait of New York City on a rainy windy night. He is definitely showing this within his art.   

Matisse Beauty / Cora Thomas

Henri Matisse Beauty in art is still very important today. People use decorative art to furnish their offices and homes. They find art beautiful and uplifting also. The tall beautiful sky scalpers are a sight for the sore eyes. What one person fine ugly, another may find it beautiful. Matisse wanted people to find comfort in the beauty of his paintings. Matisse enjoyed beautiful things, flowers, and music. Henri Matisse is said to have physically struggle with his paintings. Even in the hours of his death he painted. He lefted outlines of his attempts as he work on his painting of Olga Merson. The painting of Olga Merson had scuffing, and over painting of the face, neck and forearm and the gallant black marks that so severely repeated the figure’s placement on the canvass. There are some say that his encounter with Pablo Picasso affected him, Matisse soon moved away from bright colors of to new artistic topography. Cora Thomas

Museum Homework (blog #4)

I want to remind you all that for this week's homework you need to visit the Museum of Fine Arts Houston or your could also visit the Contemporary arts Museum across the street. Check their websites (in the links) for hours and locations- I know that if you show your student ID and tell them you are there for a homework assignment you will get in free to the Museum of Fine Arts- the Contemporary Arts museum is always free.

LSC –North Harris

Art Appreciation Spring 2012

Museum visit and Art review assignment

Instructions: Take as much time as you can to look around the museum until you find a work of art that you are drawn to or are most interested in to write about. You can pick absolutely any work of art in the museum.  It is extremely important that you complete this writing in the museum, DO NOT rely on your memory! If you can, take a photo of the art that you choose. In most cases they will let you shoot without a flash. Then post the photo on the blog where you will also turn in the review. This post is due by Monday 2/20.

Basic info:

Artist’s Name (if available):

Title:

Date:

Materials:

Size:

Part 1:

Formal (Visual) Analysis –Describe the piece visually and be as descriptive and detailed as possible. What are the size, colors, materials, or sounds?

Part 2 :

Finding Meaning- Use titles, text, symbols, how the subject matter represented (abstract, representational, nonrepresentational), role of the art, the cultural origin, or any other info you can to try to find the meaning of the work.

Jules Olitski "Beauty, Beauty"

After watching this video the first thing that comes to mind is the quote, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. That being said I truly believe “beauty” is still an important part of modern art. I am intrigued by an artist by the name of Jules Olitski. Even though Olitski states that beauty in art is now politically incorrect he still believes it has value and hopes art is beautiful. He began his career as an abstract and color fielding painter. He painted with a spray can and flatness technique; the video then portrays a man who had a distinctive change in the way he drew at the latter stages of his life. He began painting landscapes when he was in his late 70’s early 80’s. He stated he did this because “he wanted to paint landscapes.” He also quoted Oscar Wilde by stating that “nature imitates art”, his examples included that nobody used to admire a sunset, until they notice sunsets in Monet’s art.  He became one with nature and really brought out the beauty of it in his work. Even though his initial type of art (flatness) was pretty much exiled, he continued to do what he thought was beautiful. Whether that was continuing his colorful abstract pieces, his spray can paintings, or his landscape drawings, they were all beautiful in their own way. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  

Henri Matisse-colorful or without colourful

by Henri Matisse

Heart by Henri Matisse

 by Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse is a leader of modern art of beauty. His works focus on portraying the beauty of not only women but also very simple objects of the daily life. Many of his works are very colorful such as Heart. On the other hand, there are works less colorful but focusing on shape that Henri wanted to portray and emphasize. For example, the picture of a woman up there was colored with only blue, but the beauty of women's body was emphasized excellently.

In my opinion, Henri portrayed the beauty very specially in his own way. In the first picture that I uploaded there, the woman looks very fantastic and fit with the surroundings. He did not portray exactly how the woman looked like but her glory is still obvious and even better described with that setting.

Henri Matisse is worth being respected as the leader of modern art of beauty because he tried to find his own voice in his works. They are attractive and special.

Patrick Heron!

                                                                   "Azalea Garden"

                                                                     "Boats at Night"

Mr. Heron's painting are of great beauty. His paintings were decorative with meaning behind them. Heron's earlier work was abstract. You could see the "Boats at Night". Later his work became even more abstract, as you see in "Azalea Garden". I love the fact that Patrick Heron painted till the day he died. His work is very beautiful, as most of the times he was just painting the things he saw around him.

Henri, Mettise

 Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse

December 12, 1869 – November 3, 1954

Henri Matisse. Large Seated Nude,1925-29. Bronze

     Henry Matisse was a well known painter and sculptor. Matisse is one of the artists who helped the developments in plastic arts.He also helped in the developments in painting and sculpture. For instance, in the sculpture large seating nude, Matisse sculpted a women but not just any women a large beautiful women. He worked on this sculpture for many years. To me Henri Matisse was a great painter and sculptur and

he also bwon a recognition as a leading figure in modern art.  

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