Art (Dr Caruana)

Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet 's paintings focuses more on everyday people and places, in french. As other french painters of that time added glamour to their works, Courbet didn't wanted to paint them like that, he portrayed ordinary people and places, and because of this, Gustave Courbet became known as the leader of the Realist movement.

The Stone Breakers:
The Stone Breakers that was painted by Courbet in 1849, depicts two ordinary peasant workers.
The painting shows the poor people of that time, that children at that very young age needed to work to have food for them and for their family, and old people couldn't stop working as they hadn't pension from their government, and needed to work for their living until the end. Now a days, this kind of work is done by the use of machines, so the work is done in less time and with less hardship work.


Year " ". Gustave Courbet. [online] Available at:<https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/boheme/courbet.htm> Accessed on [12th April 2015]. 

Khanacademy, 2015. Courbet, The Stonebreakers, Realism and reality. [online] Available at:<https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/avant-garde-france/realism/a/courbet-the-stonebreakers> Accessed on [12th april 2015]. 


Museum visit:

Date: 28th March 2015.
Venue: National Museum of Fine Arts.
Names of Practitioners:
Title of Exhibition: Fine Arts.

 Street Scene. (1846 - 1884) - Giuseppe De Nittis.


 The coach to Louveciennes. Camille Pissaro.


When I first saw these two paintings of Giuseppe De Nittis, in me head came up Camille Pissaro painting, as the technique used is almost the same with the brush marks and a smudgy weather. they have almost the same orientation of positions, of the dry tree.


Gozitan Stone Mason. (1929) Harry Alden oil on canvas.



Figures in lilac. Gabriel Caruana.

The Gozitan Stone Mason is an oil on canvas, this artist used the technique of block colours with not shades and a solid brush strokes with a sharp edge at the end of every object and shadow, I associated this painting with Gabriel Caruana's painting of the 'Figures in lilac'. They both have used the same technique and the colours are almost the same on the green scale.


Bequest. (1857 - 1913) - Magistrate Edgat Parnis.


The Great Wave. Katsushika hokusai, Impressionism Japanese Art


When I saw this scallop, I remembered of the Japanese art influences of the impressionism, They have the same colours, and the tree that is drawn on back is used in the Japanese paintings. 


Boats at Terracina (Lazio). (1879 - 1957) - Dante Ricci.

Water Lilies. 1916 - Claude Monet.

When I saw this painting at the museum I remembered that Claude Monet had a painting that has the same technique of the water as this have. The colours of the sea are the same blue with green and the brush strokes are all directed at the same side. 


View of Castelli Romani. (1868 - 1936) - Carlo Montani.

Castle House and Boat in Malibu. (1986)

When I looked at this painting I associated it with a painting that I had seen long time ago, that has the same flower colours, and a village on the other side of the lake, as one can see the upper painting of Carlo Montani is more realistic than the above one, but have almost the same orientation and image.




Art Assay

Andy Warhol.
(1928-1987)



Pop Art Movement Artists

Andrew Warhol was born on 6th August in 1928 in the neighbourhood of Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his parents where immigrants from Slovakia.

His father, Ondrej Warhol was a construction worker and his mother, Julia Warhol was an embroiderer. 

At the age of 8, Andy Warhol was affected of Chorea, also known as St. Vitus’s dance, a rare and even sometimes fatal disease of the nervous system that left him bedridden for months. It was during these months that Andy Warhol began art, while he was in bed sick, his mother that is a skilful artist gave him his first drawing lessons. Drawing became Warhol’s favourite pastime. He was also a fan of movies, and when his mother bought him a camera, he took up photographs and set up a developing film in a makeshift darkroom in their basement.

Holmes Elementary school was were Warhol attended, and took free art lessons offered at the Carnegie Institute. His father passed away from a jaundiced liver in 1942 when he was only 14. His father dictated his life savings toward Warhol’s collage education, as he had recognized his son’s artistic talents. That same year, Warhol began attending to Schenley High School, and upon graduating in 1945, he began studying pictorial design at the Carnegie Institute for Technology.


He graduated and obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1949, then moved to New York City to begin his career. He began working with Glamour magazine in September. Using his own blotted line technique and rubber stamps to create his drawings, he won frequent awards for this uniquely whimsical style. Warhol began giving more attention to painting in the late 1950’s and in 1961 he debuted the concept of “pop art”, paintings that were focused on mass produced commercial goods.

Coca-Cola bottles, vacuum cleaners and hamburgers are Warhol’s other pop famous paintings. In his paintings list I saw many celebrity portraits in a bright and vivid colours, his most famous subjects where, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Mick Jagger and Mao Zedong. He made a good hit with these portraits as he gained fame, and began to receive hundreds of commissions for them from socialites and celebrities. One of his portraits “Eight Elvises” was resold for $100 million in 2008, making it one of the most valuable paintings in the world history.

In 1964, he opened his own studio of art known as “The Factory”.
In 1968, Warhol’s career almost ended, when in June 3 he got shot by Valerie Solanis, an aspiring writer and radical feminist, she was upset with him over his refusal to use a script that she wrote.


In the 1970’s, Warhol continued to explore other forms of media. He even published books and experimented with video art, producing more than 60 films during his career. He also worked in sculpture and photography.


Andy Warhol                                            Theresa Paden





















When I first saw this “Pink Cow” painting, I associated it with Theresa Paden’s drawings as she paints with very vibrant and bright colours. The pink cow of Warhol’s is a pop art style, and he used very bright colours to catch the eyes. In his painting I see formal elements of shape that are in the bright areas and especially high tone in colour.


Andy Warhol                                                          DADA






















When I looked in these paintings I remembered DADA's style of patch work, even the clear and light colours remembered me that style. There are formal elements of line and texture in the papers, few of them look rough and smooth. They even reminded me in Gauguin’s drawings, using solid lines on the edges of colours, as Warhol’s paintings on the edges of the objects.


Andy Warhol                                                  Alexander Khokhlov




















I associated Andy’s drawing with this artist’s style that uses vibrant colours and patch work, there are almost the same colours used, the yellow, pink and blue. With tone, shape and colour formal elements.



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About education, 2015. Pop Art. [online] Available at:<http://arthistory.about.com/od/modernarthistory/a/Pop-Art-Art-History-101-Basics.htm> Accessed date [18th April 2015].


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