Wow - we had a lot of people in class this week! I am trying to get a bigger classroom, so check back here for news about where to go next week!
This week we learned a lot of new vocabulary for describing paintings. The powerpoint presentation (appling2) can be downloaded from the usual site https://public.me.com/dpickens1, and there is also another (much shorter!) presentation (appling2.1) which you must read. Follow the directions in the presentation for your assignment , which consists of watching a video, doing some quick web research and then writing to me here, on the blog!
NON-FREQUENTANTI: In addition to the above assignment, read and do the exercises from Unit 4 ART in "English for Cultural Heritage", pp. 41-50.
I am looking forward to reading your posts this week!
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THE KISS of Francesco Hayez!
This painting is a lifelike that was realized by Italian artist Francesco Hayez in 1859, and it conveys the main features of Italian Romanticism and the spirit of the Risorgimento.It is part of the collection of Pinacoteca of Brera, in Milan.
It is a passionate and intense rappresentations of a kiss between two lovers; it is realized with oil on canvas and its dimensions are 110 cmx 88cm. It is paint with a bright,vivid and intense colours,especially light blue and brown; the tone is crisp and smooth and the line is powerful and organic, it is very definited. All of these features express a very passionate and realistic feelings of hard and strong love.
In 1920 the art director of Perugina,the leading chocolate manufacturer in Italy, create the typical blue box of the Baci with the picture of two lovers!!!
Lidia Ianniello
012002539
Georgia O' Keeffe was an American artist. Her movement, even if she often changed her genre, was the Precisionism, in turn inspired to cubism and realism, and for this also called "Cubism Realist". Only American Artist could be considered Precisionists.
Georgia O' Keeffe had two important artistic period:
1) New York Period, from 1918 to 1929, in which she used at first, water colour, then oil, and she prefer to draw and paint matural and architectural form inspired to New York buildings.
2) New Mexico Period, from 1929 to 1986 (when she died). Here she began to paint and draw great figures like shells or flowers or rocks, or beautiful landscape, and all typical elements or New Mexico land. From 1950, she began to paint and draw some clouds.
I really like "Red Hills". This painting is Oil on Convas. It was realized in 1927. Its size is 27x32. This painting rappresented a particular landscape. We can see 2 different type of colour. The bright and warm red contrasting with dull colours, that from the yellow central luminous sun go to the dull pink (or pink dull???) and dark brown. In fact in this case the tone is faded but also intense. I believe that the lines are fluent and confident below the figure, while at the top the lines are not confident.Here we can see repeat and circular motif.
VALERIA DE GREGORIO
012002782
The picture that has attract my attention is a work that has not a title.
It was painted by Georgia O'Keeffe around 1903-1905, and is a watercolor on paper. This work is a still life and shows a vase full of water with some red flowers inside.
All the painting is so luminous, because it has a warm color like it was illuminated by the sun. The watercolor give, to the picture's color, a delicate tone.
The line is not so thick and the texture is soft.
Giovanni Rispo
012002564
Georgia O'Keeffe
Hibiscus with Plumeria
Among so many pictures of Georgia 0’Keeffe I prefer the “Hibiscus with Plumeria”. This is an oil on canvas and its dimensions are 40 x 30 in.
We can see this painting at the Shelburne Museum, Vermont.
It has vivid and luminous colours. This picture is one of the many flower pictures that the artist realized in the same period. The picture shows two big flowers in foreground against a blue background. We can see the Hibiscus on the top of the picture and the Plumeria just below it. The Hibiscus is pink with purple shades while the Plumeria is white with soft yellow shades: both the flowers laid upon other yellow flowers.
The picture expresses a sensual serenity: the colours are vivid and luminous and the imagine is intense. The picture presents a perfect geometric profile about forms, colours and tone.
Georgia 0’Keeffe painted this picture in 1939 in New Mexico.
FRANCESCA RIOLO
O12002585
Tonight on the web I see many paintings and works of art by Georgia O'Keeffe, but that one I mostly love is "Red Hills, Lake George".
It is an oil on canvas created in 1927 by Georgia O'Keeffe, one of America's best-known female artists whose distinctive, colorful works and powerful abstract images are timeless and memorable. She is surely the most important American Modernist.
As a young artist, Ms. O'Keeffe's paintings were exhibited in a gallery owned by renowned photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Steiglitz's family owned a summer home in Lake George, where he and Ms.O'Keeffe spent many summers and autumns. During her time in Lake George NY, Georgia O'Keeffe produced many paintings of the area.
The painting is 27 cm high and 32 cm wide and the composition is divided into two sections: the mountains and the sky. It is drawn from O’Keeffe’s memories and experiences in the Adirondack mountains, near Lake George.
With its brilliant color, dramatic luminosity and simplified forms, "Red Hills, Lake George" characterizes the Stieglitz circle’s distinctive approach to landscape painting. The stunning red in this painting seems also to reflect her memories of autumn sunsets at Lake George.
The deep burning color of the mountains from which the sun radiates in concentric circles vividly reveals O’Keeffe’s profound responses to her natural surroundings. The rainbow-hued sun radiates outward in soft, concentric waves of yellow, blue, and shades of lilac detailed with supple brushwork. The sun burns most intensely at its core of white, so the white core also functions as a moment of stillness and silence in half of the buzzling colors.
"Red Hills, Lake George" reveals O’Keeffe’s fascination with the relationships between the elements of nature she observed.
Sabrina Riccio
112000171
“City Night” is an oil painting on canvas, made by Georgia O’Keefe in 1926. She was born in Wisconsin in 1887 and was considered a Precisionist. This painting is an urban landscape and it’s 122 cm high and 76 cm wide. You can admire it at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Her husband, the skyscraper-photographer Alfred Stieglitz, may have influenced O’Keefe in painting her cityscapes. Face to her canvas, you feel like you are looking at the skyscrapers from the ground, peering up through a camera lens: two stormy black skyscrapers look ready to come down onto each other or maybe onto us. A mysterious light (the moon? a streetlight?) shines into a thin piece of blue night sky between the buildings. Another bright white skyscraper appears in the distance. That light is the only object in the painting that gives the observer a sense of life, warmth and movement. Indeed, as you can see, the skyscrapers in “City Night” don’t give out light, or steam, or smoke: they don’t display any sign of life. No windows, nor aesthetic details: only cold, harsh, and neutral blocks of black, grey and white, not linked to their environment, standing self-contained in their geometric perfection.
Fichera Laura
012002754
Hi teacher!
I saw the video of artist american Georgia O'Keefe, and I really like.
the paintings that represent still life or abstract abject have always fascinated me so much, such as floreal paintings of O'Keefe!
One of his most beautiful paintings is "Black Hollycock Blue", painted in 1930.
It was painted with oil on canvas, and is located in the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
In this work, as other works of artist, the colors are the elements that impressed me. The foreground is occupied by flowers:
on the right a large flower is black color, gloomy and dark,
but in the center has luminous and vivid colors;
on the left there are the small flowers blue color, very intense, vibrant and contrasting with the cold color the large flower.
The lines of the pictur flowers are thin, delicate.
The painting has given me a strange feeling of curiosity, because the artist used the colors, a tone and a nuance particular.
These elements floreal are unique and imaginative!!
Candurro Rosa Paola
012002636
Georgia O'Keeffe
Sky Above Clouds IV, 1965
I saw many pictures of Georgia O'Keeffe, she was an American artist. She is chiefly known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones, and landscapes in which she synthesired abstraction and representation. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colours. She often trasformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.
I choose the picture "Sky Above clouds IV, 1965". This is an oil on canvas and its dimentions are 96 X 288 in. We can see this painting in the Institute of Art of Chicago. The picture is considered the most dramatic and well-known images of Georgia O'Keeffe. Travelling around the world, she was exhilarated by the views seen from an airplane window. The picture expresses serenity and the colours are "breathtaking" and luminous, the images is intense. At first time she painted contemplative pictures that showed she sky covered with a blanket of solid white clouds; later, a serier of lively canvases filled with puffy white clouds and blue sky that stretch to infinity. Georgia O'Keeffe's "Sky Above coluds IV of 1965" was the most ambitious work in the series, and realized her long-time ambition to create a huge mural-size painting.
Ilaria Ianieri
matricola: 012002672
Georgia O'Kneffe is a particular artist. I like her painting "From The Lake", painted in 1924. We can see a lot of colored strips and curves that probably are waves. But it's quite difficult to understand what the artist has exactly painted. Anyway I like it for the colors that it has. They are bold and bright, and there's a predominance of the blue. On internet I've found another version of this painting, maybe it's a copy, or better I think he is, and the colors are different. They are more bold and deep. The parts painted with green become yellow and a sort of orange. At the top the great part in blue become brown instead. But obviously I prefer the first one.
Carolina Finizio
012002804
I like very much the Georgia O' Keefe's art, and I saw alot of her works on internet. Her paintings are in the Georgia O' Keefe Museum in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Among all I prefer "Two Pink Shells". This painting is a great example of still-life art and it was produced with oil on canvas. It is 12 cm high and 10 cm wide. When I look at this painting, I feel like I am near the sea and I could listen at its noise. I can imagine myself in a white house on the beach with a ceramic floor. I don't know why,but I think it's because of the colours, that make me thinking about summer and white cotton dresses. These colours have cold tones but they are very bright (white and pink first, then some blue and grey). The line is broad and rounded in all the painting.
Marina Piccola Cerrotta
012002861
Yesterday I have know Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting, and I was impressed of her drawings.
Almost all her paintings present the world described in the abstract.
She draws especially flowers and landscapes in the desert and used warm and bringht colors. I found the painting very interesting but I don’t like particulary the abstractism form.
I saw some pictured and I noted that she used generic names for more pictures, indeed some are like name “flowers”.
Among so many pictures I prefer “abstraction white rose”, this is by 1927 and is an oil on cavas and is 91.4 x 76.2 cm
We can see this painting in Georgia O’Keeffe museum in Mexico.
In this context there is an abstract white rose,she used in addition white also gray and light shades of black.
The painting is bright white and the brush strokes are deep and harsh.
I chose this picture also because it gives me a sense of tranquility.
annalisa giussani
012002603
Georgia O'keefe
Horse's Skull with White Rose, 1931, Oil on canvas, 36 x 16 1/8 inches
In this picture we can see,as the title suggests,a close-up the horse's skull white with white rose on black background. The contrast of colors black and white makes the images clear. It contains vivid and strong colors.Bold brush strokes of pure white have been painted over an intense black background. In this painted we find also a sentimental contrast because there is the skull that causes distress but the rose makes it fun and for me this painted is very beatiful
Gianluca Cangiano
112000181
Among the works of Georgia O'Keeffe I liked the "red canna". The painting is oil on canvas and depicts a red flower. The tones are warm and the stroke is smooth and thick. The petals look like red flames, giving the work a sense of passion that blazes.
Valentina De Martino
015000233
Georgia O'Keffe is the original artist.
The painting that i liked most is Red tree,yellow sky.
Was painted in 1952 and is exposed to New York. This painting is oil on the canvas. The colors used are bright and harsh impact. The tones ranging from yellow to red.The brush is hard and the contrast is deep. The subject is abstact,but manages to convey strong emotions. I like Georgia O'Keffe because it transmits energy through color.
Buca Maria
015000219
Georgia O’keeffe is an important American painter of the 20th century. She is known for her still life paintings of deserts and flowers; infact she painted a fantastic picture called “ Hibiscus and Plumeria”. It is an oil on canvas. This work is able to convey a lot of feelings like peace, harmony and happiness; the artist created this with the use of bright colours like pink and yellow.
Light brush strokes of luminous and vivid pink have been painted over yellow flowers and over the intense blue of the sky. About tone, there is a contrast between the feint pink of the hibiscus and the harsh yellow of the plumeria. The floral motif is painted on a simple pattern and the texture is smooth and shiny which reproduces a relaxing effect. The picture is 40 cm x 30 cm, and it is situated at the Shelburne Museum, in Vermont.
Paola De Martino 112000216
Georgia O’Keefe was born in Wisconsin in 1887 and she was one of the major figure in the American Art from the 1920s.
This famous artist was known especially for paintings abstract images very strong and suggestive, like flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes.
The Georgia O'Keefe's painting that most impressed me is the "Red Hills with flowers".
This picture was painted in 1937 and today is exhibited at "The Art Institute of Chicago".
It's an oil painting and it's 51cm high and 66cm wide.
According to the title, in the picture are painted some hills on the background and two big flowers on the foreground, that in my opinion seem like some sunflowers.
The landscape seems to be a desert, with warm and intense colours, like red, orange and brown and delicate and fluent lines.
Thanks to all of these particulars the painting expresses a beautiful sense of peace and quiet, that really impressed me.
Vecchione Maria
012002610
Georgia O' Keeffe was born in 1887 in Santa Fe and died in 1986. She is considered one of the most important american artist of still life of 20th century.G. O'keeffe has painted many flowers because she said that people not looked at the flowers.. The picture that impressed me is " Petunia No 2 " it is an oil on canvas, 36 cm hight and 20 cm on wide. The picture is in Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe (New Mexico), it was painted in 1924.
The colours is brights, vivid and intense. There is a contrasting of light and dark violet. The picture has shades yellow and green, the lines are delicates and thin. I like this painting because I think it is a very real representation of flower, I like the colour tones she used because cause in me many emotions and quiet.
Elena Ansalone
012002892
SUNFLOWERS
The Sunflowers are the subject of two series of still lives painted by the dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh.
The first series was made in Paris in 1887.
The second series was made in Arles a year later and shows bouquets of sunflowers in vases.
These paintings are oil on canvas and their size are 91 x 97 cm.
Van Gogh used many tones of yellows.
The colours are very bright, intense and vibrant.
We can see these paintings in many museums, for example: National Gallery in London, New Pinakothek in Munich, Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.....
Antonella Guarino
Matricola: 012002343
SUNFLOWERS
The Sunflowers are the subject of two series of still lives painted by the dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh.
The first series was made in Paris in 1887.
The second series was made in Arles a year later and shows bouquets of sunflowers in vases.
These paintings are oil on canvas and their size are 91 x 97 cm.
Van Gogh used many tones of yellows.
The colours are very bright, intense and vibrant.
We can see these paintings in many museums, for example: National Gallery in London, New Pinakothek in Munich, Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.....
Antonella Guarino
Matricola: 012002343
The "Madonna and Child" is a panel painting by the great sienese artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. It was painted with tempera and gold leaf on wood panel around 1300,and depicts Mary,the Mother of Iesus, who is holding the Holy Child behind a parapet. The labor measures 20x20,8 cm.
In november 2004 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has bought the painting for a fee of $ 45 million!! This was the most expensive purchase in the museum!
The painting in addition to being known as the Stoclet Madonna by the name of the second owner was a Belgian industrial (twentieth century) is also called the Stroganoff Madonna by the name of the first owner, count Gregory Stroganoff died in Rome 1910.
The Madonna and Child is a work of sublime beauty. The gestures of Mary and baby Jesus are imbued with sacred meaning.Along with Giotto, Duccio di Buoninsegna is considered one the principal founders of western european painting.
Duccio in his art explores a new world of feeling and emotion, but with a lyricism and sensitivity to color that became the basis of sienese painting. This vision is clearly visible in the Madonna and Child in the Metropolitan museum and is for this reason that the small panel intended for private devotion, is so revolutionary!!
Duccio di Buoninsegna is the great colorist and gives weight and density to the figures, and the space of his paintings is more perceptive than rational.
The color of the painting is radiant,bright,intense,deep,melancholy, and it is pure.
In the small painting, the painting has a strong presence, the tone of the painting is ruvid,powerful,intense, and it is brilliant.The Virgin holding the Christ Child in the left arm and looks beyond with melancholy tenderness, while the Child reaches the veil with a hand and is almost as if to sweep away.
This painting is wonderful, I am very attacted to the use of intense colors.
The line of the painting is fluent,geometric,powerful and at the same time delicate.
The tender gesture of the Child and the use of the folds of the mantle describe the forms of the body of the Virgin.
I observe, for example, the area between the spread legs of the Christ Child, or the falling pattern of the inner veil of the Virgin. The model for the painting of the Virgin is shiny and is thick.
Duccio di Buoninsegna painted a color used in the delicious, use decorations in gold and creates a beautiful design, all these features contribute to the emergence of the international Gothic.Duccio di Buoninsegna is therefore one of the most famous medieval artists, Duccio in Siena is that Giotto was in Florence only that his painting does not make much of naturalism instead makes a revolutionary artist Giotto.
Maria Sofia Cosentino
Matricola:012002576
Napoli, 25/3/11.
The Raft of the Medusa is an oil-painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and litohgrapher Theodore Gèricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was just 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. At 491 cm × 716 cm (193.3 in × 282.3 in),it is an over-life-size painting that depicts a moment from the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate Mèduse, which ran aground off the coast of today's Mauritania on July 5, 1816. At least 147 people were set adrift on a hurriedly constructed raft; all but 15 died in the 13 days before their rescue, and those who survived endured starvation, dehydration, cannibalism and madness. The painting is on a monumental scale of 491 × 716 cm (193.3 × 282.3 in), so that most of the figures rendered are life-sized and those in the foreground almost twice life-size, pushed close to the picture plane and crowding onto the viewer, who is drawn into the physical action as a participant.
Detail from the lower left corner of the canvas showing two dying figures
One old man holds the corpse of his son at his knees; another tears his hair out in frustration and defeat. The pictorial composition of the painting is constructed upon two pyramidal structures. The perimeter of the large mast on the left of the canvas forms the first. The horizontal grouping of dead and dying figures in the foreground forms the base from which the survivors emerge, surging upward towards the emotional peak, where the central figure waves desperately at a rescue ship.
The position of the Argus is indicated by the yellow dot.
The viewer's attention is first drawn to the centre of the canvas, then follows the directional flow of the survivors' bodies.Two other diagonal lines are used to heighten the dramatic tension. One follows the mast and its rigging and leads the viewer's eye towards an approaching wave that threatens to engulf the raft, while the second, composed of reaching figures, leads to the distant silhouette of the Argus, the ship that eventually rescued the survivors.
The Géricault's palette is composed of pallid flesh tones, and the murky colours of the survivors' clothes, the sea and the clouds. Overall the painting is dark and relies largely on the use of sombre, mostly brown pigments, a palette that Géricault believed was effective in suggesting tragedy and pain. The work's lighting has been described as "Caravaggesque",use of violent contrast between light and dark. . Even Géricault's treatment of the sea is muted, being rendered in dark greens rather than the deep blues that could have afforded contrast with the tones of the raft and its figures. From the distant area of the rescue ship, a bright light shines, providing illumination to an otherwise dull brown scene.Géricault painted with small brushes and viscous oils, which allowed little time for reworking and were dry by the next morning. He kept his colours apart from each other: his palette consisted of vermilion, white, naples yellow, two different yellow ochres, two red ochres, raw sienna, light red, burnt sienna,crimson lake, Prussian blue, peach black, ivory black, cassel earth and bitumen. Bitumen has a velvety, lustrous appearance when first painted, but over a period of time discolours to a black treacle, while contracting and thus creating a wrinkled surface, which cannot be renovated.
RobertoMattera 015000230
The Raft of the Medusa is an oil-painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and litohgrapher Theodore Gèricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was just 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. At 491 cm × 716 cm (193.3 in × 282.3 in),it is an over-life-size painting that depicts a moment from the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate Mèduse, which ran aground off the coast of today's Mauritania on July 5, 1816. At least 147 people were set adrift on a hurriedly constructed raft; all but 15 died in the 13 days before their rescue, and those who survived endured starvation, dehydration, cannibalism and madness. The painting is on a monumental scale of 491 × 716 cm (193.3 × 282.3 in), so that most of the figures rendered are life-sized and those in the foreground almost twice life-size, pushed close to the picture plane and crowding onto the viewer, who is drawn into the physical action as a participant.
Detail from the lower left corner of the canvas showing two dying figures
One old man holds the corpse of his son at his knees; another tears his hair out in frustration and defeat. The pictorial composition of the painting is constructed upon two pyramidal structures. The perimeter of the large mast on the left of the canvas forms the first. The horizontal grouping of dead and dying figures in the foreground forms the base from which the survivors emerge, surging upward towards the emotional peak, where the central figure waves desperately at a rescue ship.
The position of the Argus is indicated by the yellow dot.
The viewer's attention is first drawn to the centre of the canvas, then follows the directional flow of the survivors' bodies.Two other diagonal lines are used to heighten the dramatic tension. One follows the mast and its rigging and leads the viewer's eye towards an approaching wave that threatens to engulf the raft, while the second, composed of reaching figures, leads to the distant silhouette of the Argus, the ship that eventually rescued the survivors.
The Géricault's palette is composed of pallid flesh tones, and the murky colours of the survivors' clothes, the sea and the clouds. Overall the painting is dark and relies largely on the use of sombre, mostly brown pigments, a palette that Géricault believed was effective in suggesting tragedy and pain. The work's lighting has been described as "Caravaggesque",use of violent contrast between light and dark. . Even Géricault's treatment of the sea is muted, being rendered in dark greens rather than the deep blues that could have afforded contrast with the tones of the raft and its figures. From the distant area of the rescue ship, a bright light shines, providing illumination to an otherwise dull brown scene.Géricault painted with small brushes and viscous oils, which allowed little time for reworking and were dry by the next morning. He kept his colours apart from each other: his palette consisted of vermilion, white, naples yellow, two different yellow ochres, two red ochres, raw sienna, light red, burnt sienna,crimson lake, Prussian blue, peach black, ivory black, cassel earth and bitumen. Bitumen has a velvety, lustrous appearance when first painted, but over a period of time discolours to a black treacle, while contracting and thus creating a wrinkled surface, which cannot be renovated.
Roberto Mattera 015000230
Georgia ò Keeffe was an american artist of 20 century.
Her first works are characterized by an abstractionism obtained by watercolours.
Later, she abandoned the technique of the watercolour and she adopted the technique of oil.
She is well known for her paintings of flowers,deserts and landscapes.
The painting that has strucked me is "Hibiscus with Plumeria".
It is preserved in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
This painting is an oil on canvas and it is datable at tha 1939. It rapresents the image of the two flowers with clear and light colours on the blue background.
Among the colours used by the artist there are: yellow,pink,blue and withe. They are light colours.
The paintig's dimensions are 40x30 in.
Georgia ò Keeffe was an american artist of 20 century.
Her first works are characterized by an abstractionism obtained by watercolours.
Later, she abandoned the technique of the watercolour and she adopted the technique of oil.
She is well known for her paintings of flowers,deserts and landscapes.
The painting that has strucked me is "Hibiscus with Plumeria".
It is preserved in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
This paintig is an oil on canvas and it is datable at the 1939. It rapresents the image of two flowers with clear and light colours on the blue background.
Among the colours used by the artist there are: yellow,pink,blue and withe. They are light colours.
The paintig's dimensions are 40x30 in.
Angela Mallardo
012002543
GIORGIA O'KEEFFE said that non one dedicates enough time to see a flower, it is too small, so she decided to paint flowers magnified, as she saw themm. But among all her paintings I prefer the "PINONS WITHCEDAR" even if not among her favorite subjects. In fact this work is different from the others paintings, it is oil on canvas, painted in 1956 by an mature woman and the artist certainly.
Georgia O'Keeffe was a U.S. paiter. She was born in 1887 in Sun Prairie, and died in Santa Fe in 1986.
Georgia lived in New York and in New Messico where developed her art.
Her creations are abstract type and performed first to watercolor and then to oil.
The subjects are flower, buildigs, landscapes, schells, animal bones of large size.
The painting that has impressed me, was 'Abstration White Rose' created in 1927.
It is an oil on canvas, mensure 36x30 cm and is located in the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
The subject is a Whit Rose, the color used are white and black for the shadows.
The tone aren't harsh but are gradient with gray and light blu snd the line are delicate and fluent. The texture is partly fine and partly thick.
The pictur struck me becose I like flowers and gives me a sense of simplicity and purity.
Muto Arianna
matricola:015000222
Georgia O'Keeffe is a very original artist, among other works, I liked: Two Calla Lilies on Pink, I like the way she paints flowers. Painted in 1928 oil on canvas, there are two calla lily, the petals with rich shades from white to gray, outlined by green contours, manages to make the delicacy of these flowers, in whose center stands the two yellow pistils, all stands on pink base. O'Keeffe studies the technique of abstract floral from 1920 to 1930, researchers have suggested a sexual nature, even if the artist has denied that this was his intention.
Zambardino Roberta
015000232
Georgia O'Keeffe was an important American Modernist.She was born in 1887 in Sun Prairie,Wisconsis.During her life she studied art and she became an art teacher.She created a body of work that is most modern,with clean lines and elegant simplicity.I must to say that i didn’t know to much about this artist and for me she has revealed herself as a wonderful discovery!She often painted flowers,I love them because I think that flowers are a colour and joy explosion but anyway the picture that most impressed me is “Sky Above Clouds III”, painted in 1963.The picture is Oil on canvas,48 x 84 inches.I choose this paint because i think that it’s very beautiful and because it transmits me quiet and peace.It’s colour are luminous,bold and vivid,there is a crisp between the colour of the sky and it’s clouds.The picture reminds me a lake with a lot of water-lilies.
Daniela Amatista
012002869
Georgia O’Keeffe, Series I-No. I (1918)
Georgia O’Keeffe was an American artist who lived between 1887 and 1986. A great part of her canvas represent flowers and a little part, like the picture I have chosen, represent abstract paintings. She was an American abstract artist of the first part of the 20th century.
The canvas that I describe is the “Series I-No. I”, painted in 1918. It is an oil on canvas and in it are presented many different colours which create a vortex.
The colours are mixed in a central vortex that is similar a wave. There are many tones of colours, an example is the dark blue under the vortex that fades in a clear azure which becomes white.
According to me, this example of painting, does not correspond to the traditional artistic standards, because it does not transmit me emotions and feelings that the Classic art gives me.
Simone Izzo - 112000221
Giorgia O'Keeffe was born in 1887 near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.For seven decades she was a major figure in American art.
she remained independent from shifting art trends and stayed true to her own vision, which was based on finding the essential, abstract forms in nature. Her primary subjects were landscapes, flowers, and bones, explored in series over several years and even decades.
For me the most beautiful and interesting picture is "It Was Blue and Green".
She tried to find new ways of expressing her wonder at the world around her and experimented with depicting aerial views of meandering rivers. The results were highly abstract and often very colorful and full of emotion, but without the tight compositional structure that had previously characterized her best work.
Davide Procida
012002698
Giovanni Antonio Canale was born in Venice in 1697 and died there in 1768;He was the son of the painter Bernardo Canal and from there took the nickname Canaletto wich means "Little Channel".
The Canaletto was an Italian painter known for his flamboyant paintings of Venice.
"The View of the Grand Canal" in Venice is a painting by Canaletto product (between 1726 and 1728) oil on canvas;the labor measures 45 inches high x 73 inches wide; and the canvas came in the Uffizzi gallery in Florence in 1798.
The painter received instruction on painting and perspective from his father,a painter of the scene in the high Baroque tradition.
The Canaletto took as his specialty the relatively new and rare form of painting,the view of the city(seen).
In fact, the Canaletto was the most famous painter of views of the eighteenth of century.
The painting in question "View of the Grand Canal" in Venice is portrayed as the Grand Canal from Palazzo Balbi, looking towards the Rialto Bridge.
This point of view, very popular among collectors of the period,is repeated in other paintings in wich there are only a few modification regarding the boats depicted in the foreground, as well as a different rendering of atmospheric light.
In the painting of the View of the Grand Canal, the painter uses a technique in wich the consecration is clear for the light brightness,and the beautiful contrast between light and shadow,to wich he added the german influence with attention to every detail.
The painting is really wonderful for the use of rich colors and dark at the same time.
The line is free, it is angular and dense.
The authentic landscape painting by Canaletto is expressed through an accurate record of the enviroment caught in the endless shades of light spread over the skies and waters.
Maria Sofia Cosentino
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Napoli,30/3/11.
My favorite Georgia O' keefe's painting is The Red Canna. This picture is the most rapresentative figure of American art in 20 century, it is usually turn to Andy Warhol becouse either had the courage to attack,renewing,the overused theme of the flawer.The first version of 1923 is the most abstract in absolute. This picture is painted by her the year befoure getting married, could sameone comment that reflect the passion. The colours used in this paintig are expecially red and yellow. They are : luminous, vivid, strong and expecially warm, while the line is free and fluent.
Nunzia Palumbo
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I didn’t know Georgia O'Keefe. Now I know that she is one of the most important American artists of the 20th century.
Surfing on the net, I saw that she has painted a lot of paintings, and I really like them!!
The flowers are the subject of most of her paintings.
The painting that I most liked is “white trumpet flowers”. It was painted in 1932. There is a big white flowers that dominate the entire pictorial space. I really like it because this flower give me a sense of purity.
Antonella Laus
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Georgia O' Keefe was a great American artist of the 20th century. Her art movement was the precisionism. She is famous for her paintings of deserts and flowers. Some of her works are in Washington from 1915.
I think that one of the most beautiful paintings of this artist is "Large Dark Red Leaves on white".
It is an oil on canvas and it was painted in 1925. It transmits me sadness and fear, and I think that it is a classical example of still life. It belongs to the Phillips Collection (Washington).
The colours are gloomy and cold... the tones are contrasting!
There is a contrast of light and intense grey. In the center of the painting there is a dead leaf; its colour is a nuance of brown and red, while the tone is feint, but the outlines are very dark!
When I look this painting, I imagine the end of the summer... so I become sad!
Valeria Vanacore
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The painting CORN NO2 by Georgia O'Keffe is an oil on canvas. It measures 27 per 10 inches and it is a gift of the Burnett foundation and the Georgia O' Keffe foundation to the Georgia O' Keffe museum. CORN NO2 was painted in 1924, during the first year of marriage with Stieglitz. Durng the long winter months in New York she began to paint her very large flowers.
The painting CORN NO2 is a Still life. A plant of corn is painted with vivid colours and a unique style. It presents a predominance of green tones with delicate pink and light blue colours and a powerful yellow. All this elements create a gloomy atmosphere that might induce contrasting feelings of sadness and happiness.
The rounded line is bold and fluent. A complex motif is repeated in an irregular pattern. The smooth texture creates a showed up effect of the image.
Melinda Montone
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"Deer's skull whit pedernal" is a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe, one the moste important american artist of the 20th century.
The painting is a oil on the canvas and it was painted in 1936.
The pattern is soft and simple, the line is thin and delicate. the colors are cold and bright.
The artist creates a meditative mood using the contrast between the beuty of the landscape in the background and the skull, symbol of death, in the foregraund.
I see in this picture a modern interpretetion of the theme of "memento mori".
Castaldi Vincenzo
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Giorgia O'Keefe is the great American artist, and work are really beautiful.
I didn't know this artist, but after watching the video I very like O'Keefe.
The paintings of Giorgia are abstract and many colors. The work that most impressed me is : "The Red Canna ".
There are three versions of this painting. The Red Canna was made in 1923 and now is in Arizona State University Art Museum.
The painting is an oil on canvas and represents a red flowers; I love flowers!
In the background there are warm colors: yellow, orange and red. These colors are bold, luminous and vibrant.
In the foreground of the painting there is a strong contrast: there are blached tones, but on the left and on the right the tones are strong and dark.
The lines are soft and free, but some lines of the petals are irregular.
A simple motif of brush is repeated for the painting.
This work is only in the world for the interpretation and emotion !
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AMORUSO FRANCESCA
The goldfish is a painting of the French painter Henri Matisse of 1912 preserved at the State Museum of Fine Arts Pushkin Museum in Moscow. The subject of the painting is a group of four goldfish swimming in their little tank. It seems that they are watching towards someone opposite them. The vessel rests on a circular table and it is probably located in the artist’s studio or on his balcony, which is surrounded by magenta flowers and plants of different species. At first, the image appears simple and free of hidden meanings, but if you look the painting carefully, these plants have no pots or containers, so it is difficult to know whether they are real or they are printed on the wallpaper pasted up the wall of the artist’s studio. In some parts of the painting, the canvas is visible because it wasn’t covered by the painter's brush. The ambiguities described above, for Matisse, should not ever be answered definitively, but he expects to remain and increase the taste for the mysterious, forcing the viewer to a perception of the painting less obvious and banal.
Barbara Carratù
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Georgia O’ Keeffe
Jack in the Pulpit no. IV , 1930
Georgia O'Keeffe was and is considered one of the greatest female artists of the 20th century. Best known for her still-life paintings, she painted also abstracts subjects.
Among her many pictures I prefer the flower’s compositions like The “Jack in the pulpit ”series.
In 1930, Georgia O'Keeffe painted a series of six canvases depicting a jack-in-the-pulpit. The series begins with the striped and hooded bloom rendered with a botanist's care, continues with successively more abstract and tightly focused depictions, and ends with the essence of the jack-in-the-pulpit, a haloed black pistil standing alone against a black, purple, and gray field.
Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV represents a midpoint in this process of increasing detail and abstraction. I really like this particular picture and its colours colds but deeps and wrappings. I would look this image for hours!
Veronica Febbraro
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Georgia O’Keefe lived from November 15,1887 to March 6, 1986.
She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesizing abstraction of flowers, rocks, shells, bones, landscapes, and similar objects.
She stopped painting in 1972 because of eyesight problems.
She revolutionized the tradition of flower painting in the 1920s by making large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens.
The picture that impressed me is "Red Poppy".This picture was painted in 1927 and it is an oil on canvas.Its size is 30x36.
Long before the Great War, the red poppy had become a symbol of death, renewal and life.Along with the use of perspective, O’Keefe uses color to impact her viewers. The stark contrast of the red poppy on the white background seems to make the flower jump off of the canvas, out into the viewer’s space. The background also has fuzzy grays and black that seems to invade the edges of the viewer’s focus on the flower.The use of orange in the modeling of the petals also adds texture to the viewer’s perception of the Red Poppy. The oranges make the petals look somewhat two-toned, giving them a velvety quality. This technique presents the illusion that the viewer is really close to the flower, close enough to see the velvety surface illuminated by the sun.
I love this work because I really think that it achieves Georgia O’Keefe’s goal of conveying the beauty of such a small flower in a large way.
IVANA DE MARCO
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Georgia O'Keeffe, painter american, born in 1887 and dead in 1986. She has painted "oriental poppies" in 1928, the technique is used oil on canvas and measure 30x40cm. Georgia O'Keeffe's painting of flowers are among her most famous. Some people definited the picture, the masterpiece of art. In oriental poppies, there are two gigantic flowers, this painting with oil is a explotion of brilliant colours, it give an hypnotic effect. Infact for principal colours of petals, the painter used the orange and red to recreate much brightness. She chose to utilize the huge canvas for burst of bright colour so as to know the wonder of nature. The painting belongs to expanse collection at University of Minnesota Art Museum of Minneapolis.
Georgia O'Keeffe, painter american born in 1887 and dead in 1986. She painted "Orintal Poppies" in 1928, the technique used is oil on canvas and measure 30x40cm. O'Keeffe's paintings of flowers are among her most famous. Some people definited the picture,the masterpiece of art. In oriental poppies, there are two gigantic flowers. This painting with oil is an explotion of brillian colour, it give hypnotic effect. For the principal colour of petals, the painter used the orange and red colour to recreate brightness. She chose to utilize the huge canvas for burst of bright colour so as to know the wonder of nature. The painting belong to collection at University of Minnesota Art Museum of Minneapolis.
GEORGIA O’ KEEFFE
A subtle sensuality joins Georgia
O 'Keeffe and Edward Weston. Experimental forms of art that has a new scenario as Mexico and the artistic ferment. There were artists such Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo and Alfred Stieglitz.
Georgia O 'Keeffe was a U.S. painter (1887/1986). The famous portrait of Alfred Stieglitz, her husband, "Georgia O'Keeffe, " is a powerful black and white “straight” photography , realized in low key with its strong lights and shadows. Giorgia attended the Alfred Stieglitz’s Little Galleries in New York and there she met Paul Strand and Edward Steichen. Her paintings of the '10s can be called abstract-made charcoal and watercolor, but soon she abandoned for oil paints. Since 1929 she almost lived in New Mexico painting landscape that were a perfect synthesis and abstraction typical of the place, flowers and animal bleached bones. The texture were rippled and the subjects were transfigured in sublime, erotic forms. Later, at the end of her long life, her paintings’d been changed in rarefied stripped architectural patterns.
Stefania di Vincenzo
This picture was created by Francesco Heyez. He was born In Venice, and he is a exponent of the Italian Romanticism period.
It is part of the collection of Pinacoteca of Brera, in Milan, where he’s died.The feature of this framework, the curved lines and very bright colors that are synonymous with passion.
Georgia O'Keefe was born in 1887 in America, and she is an important painter of the 20th century. She was famous especially for paintings very strong immages like bones, landascapes and flowers. The painting that I choose is "Petunia N°2". The colors of this painting is very bright( the artist use for this picture a lot of colors like dark and light violet, dark and light green, blue, grey). This picture was painting in 1924 and is located in Georgia O'Keefe Museum, Santa Fe. I choose this picture because I love the different colors of this flowers.
Martina Squillace
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"Red Hills, Lake George" is a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe.
Tartt is an oil on canvas relaizzare in 1927 by Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the greatest American female artists of our time. Her works have a strong visual impact, with its strong colors and abstract images.
The painting is 27 cm high and 32 cm wide and the composition is divided into two sections: the mountains and the sky. The framework has a strong personal appeal, as the great artist you have personally seen those places are staying, and colors his emotions testify strongly in that period of his life. The red, blue, yellow sun, all vividly testifies in which the artist has shown his emotions on canvas.
Emanuele Vitulano
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The work art that I liked the most is entitled "Jimson Weed". It was painted by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1932. It is painted with colours to oil paint on canvas.
This work of art shows a huge white flower surrounded by big green leaves and a clear blue sky in the background.
In this picture, we can see how the artist feels and paints in a progressive manner, like zooming. I was impressed because the colors are very bright and intense.
The shapes of the leaves and of the flower are not geometric or symmetrical but curved.
Roberta Caiazzo
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Georgia O'Keefe had the ability to capture beauty often overlooked.
Single Calla Lily (Red) is a picture that I particularly like is the classic example of a still life representing objects with a wallpaper immobile.
It’s hand painted on canvas, oil, small.
Featured depicts a white calla lily resting on a green leaf. The wallpaper of the painting is red.
The contours of the three dimensions are clear, well defined, the colors are intense and show the contrasts of light.
The painting was created in 1923, during his second period of activity, ranging from 1915 to 1929.
Was described by critics as a sexual painting but the artist has rejected those claims.
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Georgia O'Keeffe is the great American artist,is considered one of the greatest female artists of the 20th century.His creations of ten years are characterized by a lyrical abstraction created by harmonious lines, shapes and colors, these works mainly series of charcoal drawings and watercolors are among the most innovative of all American art produced during the period.The picture that most impressed me is :
"Red Hills, Lake George", painted in 1927 is an oil on canvas, measuring 27 x 32 in.; 68.58 x 81.28 cm.The colors are brilliant , there is a preponderance of pink and red, the luminosity is dramatic and forms are simple.
Gabriella Navarro
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Georgia O'Keeffe was born in 1887 in Wisconsin; she was a Modernist painter, she formed the basis for her revolutionary artwork, and she was one of the most innovative artist of the "900". She is best know for flower paintings, in fact "A sunflower from Maggie" is one of the most famous work art of her collection. Georgia O'Keeffe painted it in 1937 with oil on canvas, it's size is 41x51 cm and today it is in a Museum of Arts, Boston. In the centre of painting there is a big sunflower, the principal colurs are yellow, orange and green, they are very luminous, strong and warm; in the background there isn't nothing, but the tone is very bright. The lines of image are fluents and thins, and the pattern and texture are irregular and simple. I like this artwork because gives me the impression of the sun shines, and I advice to admire it.
Natascia Vano
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The painting that i want to describe is a still life painted by Van Gogh in 1888 with oil on canvas
(92x73).The painting is “The Sunflowers”. The only subject of the painting is a vase with
Sunflowers, the main colours are yellow for the background, yellow ochre for the plain maybe
A table on wich is posed the vase and brown, yellow, orange and green for the big variety of Sunflowers that are made of bold brush strokes and vivid colours to transmit a word of hope
And light.
Benedetta Sofi
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The paintig "CALLA RIPIEGATA"of Georgia O' Keeffe is a very wonderful art work.
I choose this painting because the flower looks real and because it transmints me a sense of peace.
Georgia O' Keeffe is an important american artist.
she was born in 1887.
she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Her works are wonderful, the lines are delicate and fluent.
THe colours are often intens and bringht.
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"Sunflowers" was painted by Van Gogh in Arles between 1888 and 1889. It is part of a series of oil paintings on canvas depicting other sunflowers. The canvas measuring 93x72cm. In the vase there are 12 sunflowers that are going to wither. The yellow, with its different shades, dominates the entire painting, even if the background was painted by a cold and dim color like blue to better emphasize the death of the flowers themselves, their drying and therefore their death. Currently, this painting is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, United States.
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Sonia Nicolella
Georgia O' Keeffe (Sun Praire November 15, 1887; Santa Fe march 6, 1986) is a modern painter, her painting are minimal and without time.
She studied at New York, where she saw some watercolours of Rodin that hardly impress her.
Her works could be divided in two groups:
-works of ‘10s: characterized by a lyric abstract, rounded line, strong colours.
-works of ‘20s: characterized by big painting inspired by New York’s buildings.
I don’t know this painter bat more of her painting give me a strong emotions.
White trumpet flower is an oil on canvas made 1932.
When I look it I feel relaxed. There are glowing and could colours and the contrast between the green and the white makes the flower beautiful.
There are a powerful and rounded line, it’s like velvet.
Palmer Federica
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federica palmer
Georgia O'keeffe was an American artist. She was born to Wisconsis in 1887. She is chiefly known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes in wich she synthesized abstraction and representation. The painting that most impressed me is "The Red Canna". The colours used are red, yellow and purple, but are predominate red and yellow. The line is free and fluent. The image seems to represent the petals as red flames, giving the work a sense of passion that blazes. This picture is painted by her the year before getting married, and today is situated at Arizona State University Art Museum.
Napoli Marianna
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"White Rose with Larkspur" of Georgia O'Keefe is the painting that I have chosen.
In this picture the rose is like a soft cloud sits in a blue sky.
He artist has been able to give a vibrant image thanks to what you can smell the fragance of the rose and you can catch the lightness of the petals.
O'Keefe whit a watercolour technique has painted a lot of flowers: calle, petunia, orchids.And all of them are very brightly and real.
M.Grazia Della Gatta
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My favourite painting of Georgia O'Keeffe is "White trump flower". This painting give a sense of purity and elegance. The line of brushstrocke are sinuous and the drawing fills all the canvas in wide and high. The coulors are all equal, based on white and gray with a few of a pale green and yellow, and they are very bright. This painting give me a deep sense of sweetness.
Maria Rosaria D'Avino
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My favourite painting of Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the paintings of her floral period. This painting i full of coulors. There is much red and yellow and the colours are very strong and bright. The brushstrocke are crisp and remember the natural line of the flowers. This painting corvey joy.
Adriana De Gennaro
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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She revolutionized the tradition of flower painting in the 1920s. I like the painting Petunia becouse I love dark colours, in particular the purple. In this painting there is a game on the shades of purple. The line is rounded and fluent. O’Keeffe painted transforming their contours into fascinating abstractions.
Stefania Siano
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the painter Georgia O'Keefe loved to paint flowers as he saw them but said that enlarging managed to attract the attention of those who,while going on the run,they would find the time to stop and admire the flowers as she did. Giorgia intent was to capture the vierwer's attention to force him to linger long look. L'hibiscum I was struck by the purity of white and the brilliant of the shades of red and yellow.
the painter Giorgia O'Keefe loved to paint flowers as he saw them but said that enlarging managed to attract the attention of those who, while going an the run , they would find the time to stop and admire the flowers as she did. Giorgia intent was to copture the vierwer's attention to force him to linger long look.L'hibiscum I was struck by the purity of white and the brilliant of the shades of red and yellow.
loredana calabrese
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