Impressionism/ Post-Impressionism

Impressionism is the impressions of what the eyes see, not just what the mind knows. Artists paint landscapes and ordinary scenes such as outdoors in varied seasons, times of day, and atmospheric surroundings. The post-impressionists see impressionism in a different way. Some do sketches and others use color and composition.

Pandora - Odilon Redon (French, Bordeaux-Paris)

Date: 1914, oil on canvas    size: 56 ½ x 24 ½ in (143.5x62.2 cm)

This painting represents the mythic beauties such as Venus, Andromeda, and Pandora. This painting depicts Pandora who is the woman fashioned from clay by the god Vulcan and sent to earth by Jupiter. She has a graceful postured with flowers. Pandora’s box is also shown in the painting which holds all evil inside. This painting also has bright reds, yellows and greens which is also balanced in color. the focal point is Pandora with the lightest color of yellow for purity with the white background. 

Irises – Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert)

Date: 1890, oil on canvas   Size: 29x36 ¼ in (73.7x92.1 cm)

A bouquet of flowers which has a harmonious and soft effect by placing the violet flowers with the pink back ground with red pigments fading. the flowers are a nice blue with green that balance out with the foreground of the painting. theres also a linear perspective which is the green surface depicting a table maybe. This painting was also owned by his mother until she passed in 1907. 

Renaissance and Baroque Artwork

Archangel Gabriel; The virgin Annunciate

Artist: Gerard David, Netherlandish, Oudewater Ca. Bruges

Date: Ca. 1510        Size: oil on oak panel, 34x11 1/8 in (86.4x28.3 cm)

The two Annunciation panels are the depictions of the passion which decorated the reverses and originally formed the movable wings of an altarpiece. When wings were closed, the Archangel Gabriel and Virgin Annunciate were shown but when they were open on feast days, Christ carrying the cross and display the resurrection depicting the lamentation. The deep translucent colors and sensitive integration of figures and so much passion shown with use of space, expressions in the face and the gestures in their hands. The color of her hair shows a softer side other than the greys. I also noticed symmetry in this painting which is dividing the two figures with symmetrical balance using different objects.

Portrait of a Man

Artist: Velazquez, Spanish, Seville Madrid

Date: Ca. 1630-35      Size: oil on canvas, 27x21 ¾ in (68.6x55.2cm)

 This portrait is from the figure who gazes out from the far right, depicting the famous military successes. The figure in the painting is an informal portrait, not a highly-finished work and the head is more finished then the body and the background. He has layers of dark colors and the expression of the face is quite serious. X-radiography is used to see the rest of the painting. It has a special color that should be viewed through the x-radiography.