Tag Archives: passion

My high school art teacher was by far my favorite teacher. He first taught in the middle school, and that’s where I first met him. He encouraged my artistic interests, and I appreciated someone who would take an interest in … Continue reading →

My high school art teacher specialized in printmaking in his education, and so he always had a particular interest in different printing techniques. I think he bestowed some of this interest on me, and so I like this next piece … Continue reading →

For everyone who isn’t familiar with Peter Paul Rubens, let me just tell you that he is a very accomplished artist, but so much more. In his time, he had travelled all over Europe and learned from the great Italian … Continue reading →

This is a very cool painting in a very cool series of paintings by Roy Lichtenstein. Everyone knows about Lichtenstein’s comic strip paintings on love and war, but he went much further into Pop Art than most people know. Apart … Continue reading →

When I first saw this piece, I wasn’t impressed. I walked past it, but nothing really made me stop or take a closer look. It seemed primitive, an early, unimportant predecessor to the momentous works of the High Renaissance. But … Continue reading →

I’m sure everyone reading this knows who Claude Monet is. But just to be clear, he was a founder of Impressionism and one of the most recognized painters in modern, actually all art. The Impressionist movement focuses on the artists’ … Continue reading →

I saw this painting in the National Gallery. This is Turner’s The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, painted in 1843. It’s pretty different from Turner’s typical work, so I thought it would be interesting to share with the … Continue reading →

For our last art history paper, we had to compare two paintings representing modernist style versus illusionistic style. I chose to compare a pair of still lives, but I had no idea what to write about. I turned the rough … Continue reading →