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Indian Art

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           Non-western art have multiple differences from western art which we have been several posts about in this blog, but today we are focusing more on the non-western artists and their works. It is important to understand the fundamental differences between those such as techniques, mediums used, religion, and philosophy which all can differ depending on if it is non-western art or not. For this blog post I will focus on art works from the country India since I have heritage from there and it will both be exciting for me to write but also for you to read about.   Untitled by Baua Devi          This is one of the most celebrated folk painting in India and it is called Madhubani and is a form of wall art in the Mithila region. It was unknown outside the non-western community until 1934 when William G. Archer discovered and shared it with the rest of the world. He saw it after the earthquake in Bihar when he saw the beautiful illustrations that were covering the interior walls of th
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Diversity Modern Art

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         Diversity            Over the years, diversity is something that has gotten more accepted and praised, which I like, with more music, movies, and art being created to lift up different genders, race, and sexualities. Diversity is something great and a something we all can learn from as we can learn from each other with different cultures for instance. The works that I will be presenting down below are all showing the support and pride in how diversity can be expressed through art. Enjoy!  Toyin Ojih Odutola                               Race has been something that has been a topic in our society for hundreds of years, for different reasons. It is something that brings a lot of emotions in me. In this portrait painting by Ojih Odutola we can see a man sitting on a bench, wearing nice clothes with a nice beard. For me, I think that there are more paintings within the diversity area that can bring more emotions to me. To connect this to diversity, I would just say that it is imp
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Early Modern

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           The Great Depression happened during 1929 to 1939 and was a economic crisis where the whole world got impacted. A market bubble bursted on October 24, 1929 and the whole stock market crashed. The biggest effects from this were widespread unemployment, homelessness, and a significant decrease in the standard of living. A new president, Franklin Roosevelt, got elected 1933 with the agenda to start new employment programs and increase the standard of living again for the Americans. Through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), many artists were a part of employment programs around the whole United States. Two years later, Roosevelt created the Federal Arts Project (FAP) where the agency tried to administer more artist employment programs, federal art commissions, and community art centers. Roosevelt believed that art fostered pride in the American culture and history.  Photographer: Unknown          As previously mentioned, it was a very tough time during The Great Depressio
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Preferences and Perspectives - The Romantic Era

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    The Romantic era started around 1780 and ended around 1830. During this era, the artists started to show a sense of emotions, something that was not really done before where reason and order were the most important means to understand the world. This was a reaction against the Neoclassical era where many of the romantic artists emphasized the individual's connection to the nature and a more idealized past than before. The two different styles that I have choosen for this blog post to do some research about is heroism and nationalism. The individual's connection to the past was a big thing during the romantic era and artists were starting to creating an idealized past with actual events that happened. A good example of this is the painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix and if you want to read more about that painting, you can visit my last blog post here.  The artists were trying to express a more sense and more emotions with the paintings and a lot of the e
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Classical era - The French and American Revolution

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       During the 1700s, revolutions in both America and Europe happened which has influenced our lives greatly today. We can often get a good insight and some clues of how the people and lives were lived during the time the art was created with some analysis. The revolutions happened because of similar reasons such as economic struggles, monarchy, and unequal rights. A revolutionary war happened as a consequence of this as we can see in the first painting The Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumball in 1786.      John Trumball is the artist behind The Battle of Bunker Hill that occurred in June 1775 and was both the first major battle of the revolutionary war and the first of a series of paintings that John Trumball did of major events during the American Revolution. The battle occurred two months after the opening battles but was the first major one where the British troops wanted to win Boston after the patriot troops had succeeded in their patriotic siege of Boston. This was the resp
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Renaissance - The Baroque Era

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  The Nightwatch (1642) Description:  This painting was made by Rembrandt van Rijn in 1642 and Rembrandt is still considered one of the greatest artists in history. The dark impressions in this art work got it the name "The Nightwatch" after it was first planned to be named "The company of captain Frans Banning Cocq and lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch. This is a giant painting, measuring 11.91 ft x 14.34 ft, That is one of the reasons for its fame, and other ones is that it is coherent, dynamic and incredibly realistic. I get this realistic feeling and dynamic feeling because of Rembrandt use of lights and shadows, especially the light on two of the characters in the painting. This is not only one of Rembrandt's, but also one of the most famous painting in the Dutch Golden Age. Personally, I would love to own an art piéce from Rembrandt and especially this one. After now learning about humanism, the different renaissance, and the dutch era I feel like I have more k
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The Pieta by Michelangelo

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  The Pieta                This is one of the greatest art work's by the famous artist Michelangelo and it was made during the Italian Renaissance during the years 1498-1500. Michelangelo created this art work after the cardinal Jean de Billheres asked him to create a sculpture that would go into the side chapel at Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. He created it by, according to himself, one of the greatest Carrara marble block he ever worked with and has been used by ancient Roman builders and was priced to be one of the best materials to use during the Renaissance.              The Pieta itself shows the Virgin Mary who is holding up the dead body of Jesus Christ after his death and his removal from the cross. For me, this art piece reflects sadness in Virgin Mary by the shape and structure of her head. A slight down-tilted head makes me think of sadness and devastation and with knowing of what the art represents I can imagine that the emotions I am feeling are "correct&
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