BEAUTY IN ART

Art is both taken and giving beauty ; the turning out the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragedy and wonderful reality of earth and man , and of all the inter-relations of these Beauty is in the eye of the beholder what is beautiful to me might not be beutiful to you evrybody is entitled to thier opinion artists looks at their art as if in defiance of restricted routines of automated labor and strese og modern urban life. reserving judgement on the ultimate effects of machine culture on the individual

MFHA Homework assignment

Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, 1853-1890
The Rocks
1888
oil on canvas
21 5/8x 25 7/8 inches


My trip to MFAH was quite and experience this was my firt time thier so this picture interestead me the most it is aboout van Gogh's impression of a windblown, craggy site just outside the villiage of Arles in southern France painting was a struggle for Vincent.van Gogh, because the fierce ,blustering winds that swept through the region whipped  violently against his canvases.Van Gogh's own creative energy leaps outward through his vigorous  rich variety of brush strokes,in unmixed colorsof greens, blues and yellows the artiste capture the various textures of smooth rock face,dry flowers, grassy stems and vast sky. The elements are woventogether by the forcefulway he applied the paint to the canvas the style makes his work recognizables.Vincent Van Gogh's signature brushwork and his expressive use of color deeply effected the suceeding generation of painters. Theo van Gogh, the artiste brother, was so taken by this painting that he immediately frame it and hung it beside The Sower, another of van Gogh's masterppiecess.

Aesthetics

Decorative Figure on an Ornamental Background by Henri Matisse

This episode really seemed to focus on the aesthetics of art. The artists do not seemed interested in showing the audience life-like paintings of beauty, but instead focus on the shapes, colors, and overall feel of the work. They do not want to show you the art, they want you to feel it. I enjoyed Matisse's work for its lively colors and simple decorative qualities. I felt that his description of his art being like a nice comfortable arm chair in which a busy business man could come to at the end of the day and unwind was perfect for his work. Its art that one can just enjoy and not have to think about it.

Art Museum HW

Name: Pablo Picasso
Title: The Rower
Date: 1910
Materials: Oil on Canvas
Size: 28 3/8 x 23 1/2

         The piece that I chose at the MFA was, The Rower by Pablo Picasso. This piece is 28 3/8 x 23 1/2. It was an oil painting done on a canvas. This painting contained lots of copper, white, gold, silver, dark brown, black, cream, grey, light brown, and navy blue colors. Personlly, I thought from first sight that the piece was rather weird, but being that it was a painting by Picasso, weird seems to be the norm in some of his paintings, which is a reason why I choose this piece. From just staring at the picture I could not make out what exactly the picture was dipicting, but it wasn't until I took a picture of it that I realized what it was. I actually thought that it was much more visually easier to see it in picture rather than in person.

         I believe this piece by Picasso to be an abstract piece. At first it was very hard for me to identify whether its was abstract or non-representational, but after looking at it more closely and doing some research on the piece I came to the conclusion that this piece is abstract. If you look at the picture carefully you will see that Picasso is portraying a seated woman. Apparently, from reasearch, around the time that Picasso painted this portrait, it was a pivotal moment in Cubist painting, so the painting as a cubist background to it.

        

MFAHouston Homework

                                           Carlos Cruz-Diez
                                           'Maquette for untitled(Crosswalks)' 2009 (Paint on Masonite)

                                            Andy Warhol
                                            'Self-Portrait' 1986 (Acrylic screenprint on canvas)


In these pieces of artwork the surfaces on both were flat and the texture was very surfaced, both were on canvas but each made with a different method. The real eye catcher to me was the 'Maquette for untitled(crosswalks)' by Carlos Cruz-Diez because of the simple fact that I had recognized that pattern somewhere; until reading the description and story behind it, I finnally understood and realized that the same crossways outside of the museum itslef and the rest of the surrounding mueseum aarea  had these color/line patterns for crosswalks. In warhol's 'self-portrait' I saw emotion and much intrigue and that's one and many reasons I like warhol's artwork beacuse of the simple fact of how simple his work is and with the many objects that he uses and themes that he takes; he easily converts them into something dramatic by just using or adding a color scheme or change and showing repetition as well too. And plus both pieces were representational.               

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