Cassidy Dolan Art F200

A World Painted in Blood: The Grim Art of World War II      This week, I decided to delve deep into the trauma and destruction of World War II art. The art from this particular era delved deep into raw emotion, death, gore, and pain. A brutal conflict between many nations. Art in this era was often portrayed with some heroism involved, but much of it showed the brutal costs of this type of conflict. If you've seen my previous blogs, you know that I like to dive into the more morbid and dark side of artistic history, and this blog will be no different, as seen with the first photo here, called The Price by Tom Lea.  The Price by Tom Lea, 1944,  El Paso, Texas, USA, Oil on canvas      The three artworks from Tom Lea that will be shown in this blog are from the Battle of Peleliu in 1944, as he made these artworks to correspond with Life magazine on the front pages. This particular image shows a U.S. Marine with part of his face, left arm, and left a...

 World War 1's Influences on Art as We Know It This week, we are getting into artworks more at my speed. I love all things morbid and dark, and while I love how dark the artworks from World War 1 are, I also feel a sense of respect and melancholy for those who died and had to endure its hardships. I loved this week's choices for our blogs so much that I couldn't just pick 1 art piece from Felsing, so you will be getting 4 artworks this week. Let us begin with one that jumped out at me when I first researched this topic, C.R.W.'s  Tunnellers.       Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, Tunnellers, London, 1916, Ink, bodycolor, graphite, and crayon on sheet      The  Tunnellers  stirs a feeling of claustrophobia and pure fear in me. The canary in its cage stands exposed, while the man's gas mask conceals his face, making you sympathize with the bird. Both in this scenario are trapped in one way or another. Most of these b...

 Romantic Era: Romantic vs Realist Art; A Comparison of 4 Arts      Romantic era art is not just romanticism style art, but a mixture of many art styles that have evolved over time. The two styles that caught my eye the most when looking at this week's lectures were the romantic and the realist styles. Each portrays life and art in their own way, while also having similarities that tie them together. Let's dive into the Romantic style first with Turner's Fisherman at Sea.  Romanticism  Joseph Mallord William Turner, Fishermen at Sea, United Kingdom, 1796, Oil on Canvas.     The first thing I see when looking at this painting is the lighting. Only two sources of light can really be seen in this painting, from the boat as a small lantern, and from the moon that reflects on the water's surface. This ties in heavily with the contrast in this painting as Turner went with a heavier contrast instead of the more whimsical light colors one might think when...

 Art and Scientific Discovery in the 1700s For this week's Clasical Art, I decided to go along the works of scientific discovery and showcase a couple of the more famous works and a more buried artist with many works of the same name but different paintings. I am pursuing a degree in a science-based field as well as a minor in art and felt an immediate connection with this topic. I wanted to delve into how these two very different areas of study have melded together to create some truly masterful art that not only tells a story about history, but also the discoveries made along the way in this era. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), Derby, England In Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump , we are shown both the celebration and critique of the pursuit of knowledge in the people's faces and body language. On the left, a woman and a man a...

 Baroque Era: Johannes Vermeer - An Introspective Look                                        Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Netherlands, c. 1665,  Oil on Canvas     My initial thought when looking through artists in the Baroque period was "Who made the Girl with a Pear Earring," as my mother had used this for a previous art-related assignment, having to change it, and used me as her muse for it. I remember it so vividly, and this painting has stuck in my mind since. It only seemed natural to look for the artist who made this masterpiece,  Johannes Vermeer, who is known to only have made 36 works of art. He was directly associated with the rise of the merchant class, as merchants and the middle class had a growing demand for art in the Netherlands. This meant that Vermeer could sell his artwork off to wealthy individuals and keep m...

 Italian Renaissance: Botticelli's Primavera -  An Introspective Look  Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera, c. 1482, tempera on wood           When looking through artists from the Northern and Italian Renaissance, many can catch someone's eye, such as Michaelangelo or Donatello, but the one who snagged my attention was Botticelli. I discovered through research that tempera during this time was actually egg tempera used as a binding medium for oil paintings. This was one of the mediums that Botticelli would use when painting, which would bind the pigment of the paint with the medium, allowing it to stick to the canvas.  Botticelli was also known for his masterful use of lines by historians, where he would focus on the line of these creations, which in turn caused the forms to be lightly shaded. Botticelli learned this technique he utilized from his mentor, Fra Filippo Lippi, who was a frontrunner in Italian Renaissance art.    ...