Artwork Review: What Painting Technique Did The Artist Use? (Coursework Sample)

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¯ “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,” Edouad Manet
í How does this work follow the Impressionist style?
The artwork included use of small and yet visible brush strokes just as the impressionists did. He also uses a clear emphasis on light depiction with the changing qualities of the scenes. His technique (pointillism) is based on the impressionist style where they avoid color mixing as much as possible. In his art work, he does not use any black just as the impressionists avoids using black. Another impressionist style he used is movement where there are movements of boats at the background and of people on the foreground; depicted by a lady walking alongside a kid.
í What painting technique did the artist use?
He uses a technique known as pointillism or divisionism. He renders his subject by closely placing tiny and precise brush strokes of complimentary and contrasting colors blending at a distance. He uses newly discovered color and optical theories. This was meant to allow the viewers to blend the colors optically rather than the artist doing the color mixing.
í What social issues does this painting address?
This composition addresses the growing middle class during their leisure time. It can also be viewed as a representation of the social tension and gap that exists between the modern city dwellers whose social classes differs, gathered at a common public place without making any interactions o communications. It is a reflection of the societal boredom; it depicts the disappointment and incongruities of idleness. On another perspective, the piece of at portrays the lust and vice that has gnawed the French bourgeoisie.
¯ “The Tub,” Edgar Degas
 
í What formal quality did this artist explore?
Degas explores the underlying formal compositions, rhythms and connections hidden beneath the surface. He thinks of the subject, the 2D elements of shapes within space and their spacing framing. He manages a great switching by seeing 3D subjects transformed to 2D shapes. He uses parallel lines on the woman’s arm and also the table thus dividing the painting clearly into thirds. Edger uses deliberate choice and placement of color and forms to give us a casual work of the objects.
í How did his medium contribute to the appearance of his work?
Edgar uses pastel, charcoal, pencil, canvas and oil to convey his intellectual ideas and artwork through paintings and sculptures. He projects his skills using these pieces advancing from a copyist to an influential innovator. He defines the edges of the modern.
í What Modernist interest does he investigate?
He investigates the notion of ideal nude. He drifts his interests from the renaissance to the modernism, focusing his interests on modern subjects such as horses, ballet dancers and bathers. He works at the fringe of the society he lived in and worked within the limits of artificiality and truth telling in his art. Through his representation of the modern subjects and constant questioning on traditional artistic practices, Edgar helped define the beginning of modernism in visual culture.
¯ “Vision after the Sermon,” Paul Gauguin,
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¯ What fundamental differences exist between Gauguin and the Impressionists?
Paul Gauguin uses synthetism in all his pieces of work. He felt that the juxtaposition created by the complementary colors in impressionism brought discord rather than harmony. He produced paintings that were autonomous objects whose identity was proclaimed as a colored pigment covering a vertical surface while the impressionists produced paintings known as the slices of life. The impressionists used spatial illusionism developed during the renaissance; Gauguin rejects the same and seeks pictorial logic not defined by spectators physical existence in real space and time.
¯ Why did Gauguin move to Pont-Aven?
Gaugin moved to Pont-Aven due to his disappointments such as having lost his ...