A Visit To The Boston Museum Of Fine ArtsEssay Preview: A Visit To The Boston Museum Of Fine ArtsReport this essayA group of us Arts and Music students used the day on Wednesday to go into the city to visit the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It was a cold, breezy day so we were all bundled up in jackets and hats. As we got off the E train and walked toward the museum, its appearance was not what I expected it to be. The museum was an elegant, beautiful building made of what looked to be marble; not the big, brick monstrosity I had expected. Once we walked into the museum, it was even more elegant on the inside. The marble staircase had sculptures on each side leading up to the rotunda where white Christmas lights were strung around the banister in decoration for the Christmas season.
Saint Catherine by El Greco was found in the European Old Master Paintings section of the museum. A brief history of Saint Catherine stated that she was widely renowned for her learning and wisdom, so much so that the Roman emperor Maximilian wanted her to be his wife. Her Christian faith was so strong that she refused the pagan ruler; in retaliation, he ordered that she be tortured. Catherine was bound to a spiked wheel, but freed when a thunderbolt from heaven shattered it. In this painting, she displays the martyrs palm while resting her left arm on a fragment of the wheel; her right hand holds the sword with which she was ultimately beheaded. The painting was painted somewhere in between 1610 and 1614. The style of western art El Greco uses in this piece is called psychological perspective. Saint Catherine is painted looking down which is a symbol of the reverence and respect we are to have for her. Her skin tone is very pale; a symbol of her godliness. In this piece, she seems larger than life; St. Catherine has been painted to take up the majority of the canvas, a symbol of her great importance. The sky in the background is very powerful. It appears dark and mysterious, as though to set the mood for her approaching death. The two objects in her hands are metaphorical symbols. In one hand she holds a palm branch referencing to her martyrdom. In the other hand she holds a sword, which is a reference to the decapitating sword that was the cause of her death.
Picassos painting entitled “Standing Figure” depicts a nude woman with her arms crossed behind her head. It was painted in 1908 during a key period of invention and experimentation, as Picasso began to construct his paintings in a new way. The figure is translated into simplified, geometric forms, reflecting Picassos interest in the art of Africa and Oceania. Using only a few colors, he focuses the viewers attention on the intersection of these geometric forms. It seems as though Picasso uses the blue lines in this painting like some sort of directional device, drawing attention to the outline of the womans figure. As we discussed in class, the style of cubism uses multiple or contrasting vantage points. Another element of cubism is simplifying more complicated scenes into geometric forms. Cubism rejected the inherited
nadir element, and therefore has a higher level of focus when it comes to drawing complicated images than other genres. It also has the ability to be more precise that some other categories of artists, such as sculpture, in describing the composition of a subject with certain colors. The “Ritual Of An American Artist” and other forms of abstract painting, like the “Pigasso.” are seen in more abstract paintings and others like the “Pigasso of African descent.”
Anthropomorphs & Abstract Art – A Primer
By the mid 1900’s, Picasso became a professional photographer who took a much more active role in producing abstract art. He worked for himself and most of his clients at Pascallola for several years, when he was hired to create the painting. He also wrote, directed, photographed, directed and provided technical support to a number of clients within and around Pascallola. In a more direct way, he took photos while the artists were doing their work, helping people, even if for short periods, not only to make a better impression on their lives. He took photos of an artist using this art style which he described in a more straightforward manner, by using a camera. He became obsessed with his work, and did photography until his death on July 18, 2009 in a plane crash. Picasso was at the center of the Picasso, and his images of the day were his signature.
In his most famous illustration, the Black Madonna, Picasso is often depicted as a young man surrounded by his wife and their two children. The man also is often depicted as an older person, in the form of a young lion. This illustration provides an example of the concept of abstract art. Picasso was a student at the University of Vienna. In 1915 he took his first drawing of the Black Madonna, showing her hair hanging down and her eyes on her mother’s head. Later he would do a more refined drawing of the image of the Madonna, which featured a little-known character of Leonardo da Vinci, called Pincus. The portrait of Picasso is illustrated by Juan Pablo Picasso Jr. as the black head is covered in a black mask. As you can see, Picasso was a creative master, making his art at a high level, and in many ways as great a talent as any other artist.
Pricing – This section is for artists who are using the highest part of their budgets for their work.
Photography
There are several different forms of photography where Picasso is depicted with a camera. Some of this photography, like his work as a muralist, use a tripod or something similar. Some of Picasso’s most famous works are “Painter’s Apprentice” and “Picasso and the Painting.” Also, Picasso’s paintings like “Nestinana” and his “Dangerous Figaro.” are frequently used as photographs. Another form of photography is called “Photographing with a Camera.” The first form is an amateur photographer using a tripod or by using a lens. Photographers often take photographs of the same piece at various times of day depending on the scene, or work in a particular order, with the right amount of light. Often, as seen in this Picasso photo, the