Art Appreciation

Bacchus is a painting by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio (1571-1610). It is held in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The painting shows a youthful Bacchus reclining in classical fashion with grapes and vine leaves in his hair, fingering the drawstring of his loosely-draped robe. On a stone table in front of him is a bowl of fruit and a large carafe of red wine; with his left hand he holds out to the viewer a shallow goblet of the same wine, apparently inviting the viewer to join him.

French painter whose landscapes introduced into the naturalism of the mid-19th century an overriding concern for the accurate analysis and depiction of natural light through the use of colour, greatly influencing the Impressionist painters of the late 19th century. The painting shows us the face of Realism.

Baroque was an elaborate style of painting and was especially good a depicting religious scenes; for this reason, its use was encouraged by the catholic church, its dramatic and direct style perfectly captured the drama of religious imagery. This image is a beatiful representation of the Baroque period.

Fixing the viewer with a dreamy gaze, the fair-haired Telemachus grasps Eucharis's thigh with his right hand while holding his sword upright with the other. In the 1699 French novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, loosely based on characters from the Odyssey, the author Fénelon describes how Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, fell passionately in love with the beautiful nymph Eucharis. His duty as a son, however, required that he end their romance and depart in search of his missing father. Personally, the work is one of the finest examples of Neoclassicism.

The Sleeping Gypsy is an 1897 oil painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau. The fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night is one of the most recognizable artworks of modern times.

Paul Klee was shaped by numerous different art styles which may be seen in his paintings, such styles which includes expressionism, cubism as well as surrealism. Klee was a scholar of orientalism. Klee, as well as his acquaintance, the renowned Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, were celebrated for their teaching with the Bauhaus school of art and architecture. I like the graphical aspect of the painting. That's why, I chose it.

Friedrich was a prolific artist who produced more than 500 attributed works. In line with the Romantic ideals of his time, he intended his paintings to function as pure aesthetic statements, so he was cautious that the titles given to his work were not overly descriptive or evocative. The work is an example from Romanticism period.

Living beside the sea at Bandol in 1921, Gris had diverse reactions to the setting. It was "sinister," "beautiful," and "sad." So moved was he that the theme of the open window dominated his production that year. In the first of these works, The Open Window, Gris returned to the metaphoric conception of Place Ravignan. That is, the interior and exterior spaces are distinct. Instead of a still life before a window, however, Gris discovered an archetypical subject for him, the musical instrument before nature. Cubism is forcing the imagination so I like the painting.

Joan Miró i Ferrà (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈam miˈɾo]) (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his birth city in 1975. Sobreteixim is an example of Surrealism.

František Kupka (September 23, 1871 - June 24, 1957) was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic cubism (Orphism). Kupka's abstract works arose from a base of realism, but later evolved into pure abstract art. I chose the painting because of importance of the artist.

Venus is an Italian Renaissance ideal: blonde, pale-skinned, sexy. Botticelli has picked out highlights in her hair with gold leaf and has emphasized the femininity of her body. The paint is a classic example of Renaissance. That's why, I chose it.

The rich musical possibilities in the poetry of the late 16th and early 17th centuries provided an attractive basis for the love poetry, which increasing reputation as the pre-eminent musical form in Italian musical culture, as discussed by Tim Carter: The love poetry, particularly in its aristocratic guise, was obviously a vehicle for the ‘stylish style’ of Mannerism, with poets and musicians revelling in witty conceits and other visual, verbal and musical tricks to delight the connoisseur. Musical Angel of Rosso Fiorentino is the example for Mannerism.