Essays on European Art

Berlin and Germany has for the past few decades known as a center for the European art scene. The city itself is a historical site and one that is very much known for its architecture, history and culture. Berlin for the majority of the second half of the twentieth century was not the most attractive place in Europe for artist, art dealers, gallery owners, and brokers to do business. This was largely due to the effect of the Cold War, the construction of the Berlin Wall and the sensitive political landscape in which Berlin was located. With the end ...

The Brooklyn Museum holds an interesting art collection with artworks from the ancient world to the contemporary period. The artifacts originate from regions worldwide. A visitor has the opportunity to see the long-term exhibitions, but also the current ones and touring. The long-term exhibition of European Art is located at the Beaux-Arts Court at the third floor and includes artworks from the period of Early Renaissance to World War II. These include mainly paintings, prints, sculptures in mediums such as marble, bronze, and plaster. This essay aims to present some of the basic painting principles of the Early Renaissance ...

Museum tours are always exciting and help in better understanding of art and various perspectives associated with it. The paper will discuss a visit to Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena in Southern California. The museum is open on all days except Tuesdays and entry for students with valid is free. The Museum showcases a wide array of art pieces from Asian, European, Modern and 3D art. Paintings from Renaissance period were fascinating and gave a chance to introspect how two paintings can have a similar subject but dissimilar in their form. There were about 145 paintings on display showcasing ...

13th to 14th century European Art (Proto-Renaissance Art/Byzantine Influence)

Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Saint Francis Altarpiece. Tempera on wood. Circa 1235. San Francesco, Pescia, Italy. Giotto di Bondone, Lamentation. Fresco. Circa 1305. Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy.

Art in the 1348 at the time of the Great Plague

15th century Northern European Art (Greco-Roman Revival) Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Ghent Altarpiece. Oil on wood. Circa 1432. Cathedral Ghent Belgium. Petrus Christus. A Goldsmith in His Shop. Oil on wood. Circa 1449. MetMuseum.

Renaissance in Europe.

18th century: The Baroque and Rococo Art Movements (Elaborate and Gaudy Designs to Neo-Classical Motifs) Jean Honore Fragonard. The Swing. 1766. Oil on canvas. Wallace Collection, London. Adelaide Labille-Guiard. Portrait with Two Pupils. 1785.

The Romantic Period in the 1800: The Fear of the Subtle

Theodore Gericault. The Raft of ...

According to Habermas (1983), the notion of “project of modernity” came into focus during the period of the eighteenth century. It is worth mentioning that the spirit of aesthetic modernity discussed by the philosopher was extremely striking in the works of Baudelaire, avant-garde movements, Dadaism and surrealism. At this very time, Bergson presents his philosophy of the new time, showing the elusiveness, ephemerality and discontinuity of life. That’s is why the way of modernist representation of art is rather abstract and ambiguous. The representatives of modernism were rebelling against the whole normative system claiming that they have no ...