Max Pechsteins painting called \"Zwiesprache\" (Two Voices) painted in 1920 is of two nude females conversing in a landscape. Its condition is unusually fine, with strong boldly printed colors. The sheet has only some soft creasing in the margins. The subject matter is most probably sexuality and it...

The twentieth century brought WWI, Hitler, and the Great Depression to the world. It was a time of turmoil and out of turmoil comes change. The art world would also be turned upside down and forever changed. Fauves, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Fantasy, Dada, Surrealism, and early Abstract...

Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous Modern artists of the twentieth century. Picasso\'s work followed the style of Cubism. Cubism was a non-objective style of painting developed in Paris in the early twentieth century. It was characterized by reducing and fragmenting natural forms into abstra...

The atmosphere in the Museum of Modern Art was very tranquil - the lights aren\'t too bright, and the wall itself looked like a piece of artwork. I\'d been walking around the museum for a while and I finally saw a painting that was what I\'d been expecting to find. It was located in a big room with ...

As my second museum visit in America, the MOMA was so attractive that it kept me to stay for more than three hours. It was a truly different experience compared to my first museum visit. The more art I studied the more I began to easily understand the variety of different ideas and feelings a single...

While touring the Baltimore Museum of Art one particular piece caught my immediate attention. The painting is entitled \"Evening Glow\" and was painted in 1972 by Alma Thomas, a renowned African American woman with a lifetime of achievement in painting and teaching art. Evening Glow was painted ...

Henri Matisse's painting Purple Robe and Anemones, from 1937, hangs in the Baltimore Museum of Art. This painting depicts his model Lydia Delectorskaya in a purple robe with a vase of anemones in the foreground. Matisse did not intend to capture his subject realistically. Instead, the painting ...

Alcott's Luminous Crystals Robert Alcott's Luminous Crystals were truly beautiful, amazing works of art. It was my first time to an art show and I was able to attend the opening so that made it an even more memorable experience. I was very impressed by his work found it truly beautiful...

My experience with art is novice at best, but one particular piece caught my eye. It is a painting by Jackson Pollack entitled \"Flame.\" This piece is abstract. Although it is abstract, it still conveys an environment and setting. At first glance, it seems to be just a pattern of colors, but afte...

Pointillism has truly been the beginning of a new error within time itself. Its creation came from an offshoot of Impressionism, and is usually classified as a form of Post-Impressionism. It is very similar to Divisionism, but where Divisionism is concerned with the color theory, Pointillism is focu...

Upon visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I saw many different varieties of artwork. One such painting that caught my eye was Femme au Chapeau (Woman with the Hat), painted by Henri Matisse (1869-1954). The image was made in 1905 and originated from France. The oil painting on canvas mea...

Vincent Van Gogh was born in Brabant, Holland in 1853. His \'bizarre\' sense of colour disallowed his access to any art school. It was however this unique \'impressionism\' that made his work so popular and valuable to this very day. Van Gogh moved to Paris later on in his life to join his brothe...

The Picasso and the Perugino paintings in the art book are in no way really similar; they are infact very different aside from the fact that the main piece of the painting is a female. The colors used in Picasso\'s Weeping Woman are a lot of Brights. But the colors in Perugino\'s The Virgin and Chil...

Since the beginning of time, mankind has experienced the power of colors - their relation to nature, their attributes, and their significance. Not only do colors characterize a society, but they are also the essence of everything. Color is a perception (from our eyes) that results from the complex c...

For this second assignment, I chose a painting by Mimi Parent, titled A Stroll in the Sun. It\'s a very bright and colorful canvas that automatically attracts your attention upon entering the exhibition room. In the foreground, we see a young girl standing to the right of a field of various flowers....

\"Merengue en Boca Chica,\" reveals a bright and moving piece of work that makes native Puerto Rican music come to mind. In the painting, there is a group of three Hispanic males playing various instruments. These three figures are painted in such a way that they appear to be moving to the rhythm ...

Since the beginning of the universe, mankind has experienced more or less the power of colors, their relation to nature, their attribute and significance. Not only do colors characterize a society; they more importantly are at the essence of every thing. Color is a perception (from our eyes) that re...