The Bride

Week 4       

Die Braut (The Bride)

Hannah Hoch (1927)

114 by 66cm

Oil on canvas

Berlinische Gallery, Berlin

            Hannah Hoch is a well known modern painter from Germany. This painting by Hannah Hoch struck my attention because of the idea of two people getting married but it depicts as if the bride in this wedding is still a child. In this particular painting by Hoch I see many objects floating around the odd couples head. The background of this painting is a very bright orange yellow color. There are more warm colors in this painting rather than cool colors. In this painting there is much variety being displayed. This painting makes you mind think of so many things. It is not original. It’s a one of a kind painting. The emphasis for this painting is my eyes are drawn towards the wife whose head is that of a baby.

            To me this painting is maybe sending out a message to societies that people are getting married to young. She uses the head on the baby as if to illustrate the meaning of a young marriage. The women or “baby” is this painting is getting distracted by all these different toys like many people do in life with their own lives. The social issue I chose was the media. The media plays out a lot of issues. I think that her painting is like the media in a way that the media will exaggerate events or people to make it more exciting. In this painting she does that by making the bride just a child.

            This painting might not change anyone’s perspective on young marriages, however it is fun to look at and a very creative painting. This painting is not meant to stop young marriages but to just depict to people that they are there. This painting The Bride is very visual and it makes you think about what the meaning behind it truly is and what was going the artists mind when she created it.

Dreams

Week 3

Dreams No. 2

 Jacob Lawrence (1965)

90.8 by 61.0cm

Smithsonian American Art Museum

            This painting by Jacob Lawrence captured my attention because of all the color that was used. This particular painting Dreams, depicts what looks like a women sitting in a chair asleep dreaming. The artist uses mainly bright colors. He makes the women sitting in the chair stand out against the rest of the room. He paints what looks like two windows. In one of the windows it looks like there is a scene of some kind happening either outside of the room or in the women’s dream. He paints this particular woman very dark as if to make her look of black ethnicity.

            The social issue I chose was family. I think that this painting shows a women laying in a chair tired from providing for her family.  Family is very important to have this women was probably providing meals and material things for her families happiness. She was helping out her family like most families do. They help out one another. I think the purpose of the particular piece of art is to show the visual elements of an everyday situation of someone living their life then dreaming of another through sleep.

            I think that this painting relates to my social issue of family very well. This artist did a nice job of using color and visual elements to describe what was happening in the painting. This quote from the bulletin of the museum of modern art, “Lawrence paints facts, not propaganda”. I thought that this quote describes well of why he paints certain scenes. He paints life.  

The Endless House

Week 2


Endless House Project, Perspective

<http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=104>
(to view drawing)


Artist: Frederick Kiesler

Size: 37.5 by 45.1cm

Gallery: Museum of Modern Art, New York



            This particular drawing The Endless House Project, is one of many parts to this particular art project. This is an ink drawing on wash paper of The Endless House. In this drawing there is only one color being used in different shades. There is dark and light shading with and ink pen. There seems to be lighter shading than there is dark. The people that he drew sitting under what is suppose to be the house have not physical attributes. They are there to give you an idea of what this project is suppose to be used for, a house. This drawing looks like it is suppose to demonstrate how the house has no distinct ending. It has round edges as if it is on the earth and is created into the ground.

          This ink drawing relates to my social issue of the environment because this house that he created on this drawing is meant to be endless as if it is involved on the earth. It is depicted as a part of our environment. To me this house is meant to be connected with the earth as one. The earth is never ending it is round and goes on and on. Just like this house there is no end to it. It also goes round and round. This Endless House would have still been manmade and not actually created by the environment. However Frederick Kiesler wanted to create something that was endless and had no edges to where it could stop.

         This particular ink drawing changed the way people think of architecture and the actual purpose of a building or object. This quote “It is endless like the human body. There is no beginning and end to it. The “Endless” is rather sensuous. More like the female body in contrast to sharp-angled male architecture,” demonstrates that this piece is in fact supposed to be understood as being endless. The artist wanted the idea of endlessness to come across to people when they looked at this. However this drawing was just one of the many steps that the artist used for this whole project I think that the drawing really gives you a good idea of how he wanted people to view it.

The Young Beggar

Week 1


The Young Beggar

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo_-_The_Young_Beggar.JPG
(how to view the painting)



                 This piece of art work depicts a young boy homeless on the streets. He is all alone managing to stay alive on hisown. This particular piece of art work is depicted to be very dark. He is right next to the shadowed area. But the boy seemsto choose to sit in the sun. This painting shows both light and dark areas. However the meaning of the painting seems like itwould be darker. This boy is all alone and their is bugs by him. No bright colors are used in this. There is alot ofbeige and brown. There are still light and dark parts of this painting but nothing that really stands out with a very bright color.
               I think the purpose of this photo is to capture people attention on a personal level. To show people the povertyin the world and how it effects everyone even young children. You often see older people as being homeless but this artist, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, shows a young boy alone with ratty clothes on and barely any food. To me this painting ismeant to catch people by surprise. They see a painting of a young boy all alone and feel sad for him.
              This painting was said to be greatly appreciated by the people at that time. This painting was painted in 1645 to 1950. This is an oil on canvas painting. It is 134 by 110cm. This painting, the young beggar, is currently in LouvreMuseum, in Paris. The quote, "Murillo's interest in the needy perhaps also has something to do with the doctrine of charity of the Franciscans,for whom he frequently worked. Murillo, the last of the great painters of Spain's Golden Age, was above all a religious painter".This quote shows that he was a religious painter and that this painting for Charity was meant for those of the poor. He genuinely cared about the poor and felt obligated to show how some people live through his paintings.