Museum of fine Arts Houston

 

WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU
The Elder Sister
1869
Oil on canvas
51 ¼ x 38 ¼ inches

         The young girl, is holding a baby in her lap. To me this picture looks extremely beautiful. The look on the little girls face looks angelical. The baby is asleep, and doesn't know what is going but the baby feels really safe with his sister. It's like if she's protecting him. The background to me represents peace, that they are happy kids with no worries. This painting brings back memories to me about my sister. about how much I love her. Art brings back memories and emotions. To me this painting made me think about alot of things, since i saw it the first time.I could find the meaning of the work, so it is a representational painting to me

Susan Comforting the Baby-Trigger Your Fellings

The painting Susan Comforting the Baby was one of the very popular and typical paintings for Mary Cassatt's style. The work was painted on canvas using oil in 1881, and its size is 65.09 cm (25.63 in.) x 101.28 cm (39.88 in.)
It caught my eyes because it triggered my emotions so much. It reminded me of my little sister. Mary Cassatt successfully chose the material to awake the moment at which the baby just stopped crying after Susan had comforted her. The picture brought the very pleasant and peaceful instant whenever I stayed beside my sister to mind. You may also experience that feeling when you see the picture in person. She brought her brush back and forth in different ways. Even she did not depict exactly every detail of the moment, the way she chose what was to draw and what was not to focus too much on awakes human feelings. For example, in the photo that I shot with zooming in to focus on the baby's eyes, you can see she did not draw complete eyes. The artist simply applied brushstrokes to create the soul in the baby's eyes. I love the baby's eyes than any other details because of those plain eyes. Mary Cassatt also corporated cold and warm colors effectively in order to describe that very composed moment. Moreover, she used linear perspective to create three dimensions affect for the picture. Looking at the windows and the wall with flowers, audience can guess where is the vanishing point.

The title of the work tells exactly what is it for. The picture simply describes the pleasure of the every day life. By doing some research, I realize that almost all of Mary Cassatt's works are representational. She chose her own family members as her subject matter. Her topics were women and children, and she achieved her greatest success in the depiction of maternity. Mary was one of the only three women and the only one American woman chose Impressionism as their paiting style. That may have been the reason why she chose women and children as her models. She chose to depict the beauty of life, and her works help to confirm the women's ability to enjoy and reproduce the beauty of the every day scences through her sensitive eyes.

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.