Kaitlyn spinella

Snow-Covered Pine Saplings by Pekka Halonen is a sculptured made in 1899. Halonen drew this picture because the soft snow on the pine saplings emphasize their fragile beauty. Halonen made this painting using tempera on a canvas and I wounder if he had to show any shadows or us different tempera to show different shades. The snow on the trees is showing that it's winter and it's cold out and the painting is showing the beauty of the trees after there is a snow storm. I chose this painting because I love the winter and the snow not as much as I like summer and spring, but I love how when your driving after there was a big snow storm and there was snow every were and icicles every and all the trees look like  amazingly pretty with the snow draped over them and little icicles hanging from the trees. You can still see a little bit of color throughout the slow because there is still one or two leaves left on the tree. All you see is snow every where it's like walking in a winter wounder land. Everything just looks so pretty with all the snow. 

Courtney Keery

This sculpture called Star and Cross Tiles by the Denman Waldo Ross Collection in 1907 is really unique and interesting because of all the details. It looks like a sculpture that a Christian church might have because of the crosses that represent Jesus dying on the cross. All of the stars have that same design as do all of the crosses have the same as well. The sculpture looks fairly new because there is no dirt on it and there are barely, if any, chips on it. This sculpture called Star and Cross Tiles by the Denman Waldo Ross Collection in 1907 is really unique and interesting because of all the details. It looks like a sculpture that a Christian church might have because of the crosses that represent Jesus dying on the cross. All of the stars have almost the same design as do all of the crosses have almost the same as well. The sculpture looks fairly new because there is no dirt on it and there are barely, if any, chips on it. I love the details in the stars because of how they have faces or swirls and the crosses are zig zag or a whole bunch of different line designs and shapes the faces in the stars are so detailed you can see each of the little facial features included in the design. The stars are a little less detailed but are still very unique and wonderful. If you ever look in a Christian church and see all the glass painted window, this sculpture reminds me a lot of those windows. I love how the colors and designs all match together and make the very old sculpture look almost as good as brand new. 

Kaitlyn spinella

Interpretation to the portrait of José Luis López Aranguren by Pablo Serrano is a sculpture that was made after a Spanish philosopher named Jose Luis Lopez aranguren. There is no medium for what this sculpture is made out of. The religion is Spanish modern art and the philosopher was Spanish. The reason I chose this sculpture was because sculptures just look interesting for one and this sculpture is lopsided and a almost a scary face on it. The sculpture of the guy has a very skinny neck and a very big head he almost reminds me of a bobble head and how their heads are bigger then their body. I wounded why the artist made this guys head so much bigger then the rest of the sculpture. I figured he must of had a bigger head then average human beings. His ears are different too one ear is normal and one looks like it's been chopped off or burnt I wounded if he was in a war of some sort. Above the eyes it looks like he had stitches he much have got stabbed above the eye and had to get stitches all around the top of his eyes. 

Courtney Keery

This picture was made by Keith McLeod called "Head and Chest of a Lion." It is called this because it's literally the the head and chest of a lion. Lions were found all over South and Southeast Asia. They're found at Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain sacred sites located in these areas. You can tell the sculpture is very old by its cracks and fade of color. The head and chest of a lion is very dirty and muddy which makes its color fade. As well as old and dirty, it's also a very unique and interesting sculpture. It's also very different because there aren't many other sculptures like it which  makes it interesting as well as different. When I first saw the sculpture, it was creepy and kind of gross because it was all chipped and i had no idea what it was. After I read the plaque it became more visible that it was supposed to be the figure of the head of a lion. The part that I didn't understand at first was why the lion had no mane and also why it has what looks like a mustache. The sculpture now that I know what it's resembles is a very cool thing to go back and look at.

Kaitlyn spinella

Plus de Vin by Carlos Reis is an artifact that was also known as The Empty Flagon. This painting was made to show a end to a party in a village. The painting is Reis's best painting and his biggest. It's the way everything is captured into one painting and the way he shows everything. Reis used oil on a canvas when he made this artifact and he must of used different oils to convey different shades. Reis influence for art it's self was king D. Carlos. The reason I chose this artifact was because of all the bottles in the picture. I wanted to know why he used/wanted all the bottles in his painting. I asked my self what could he possible be trying to show in in this painting using so many bottles. I picked the picture and I found out he was showing a party in a village and I said to my self that makes more since why he chose the bottle because at a party you are celebrating you drink you party. It was cool to find out how he conveyed so much into something as simple as bottles. I liked how it was really hard to figure out what the picture was trying to convey just by looking at it, I would have never chose this painting if I new right from the start what the artist was trying to say. 

Courtney Keery

This picture was made by Joeseph Mallord William Turner in 1899 called "Slave Ship". The art captured in this beautiful and tragic painting looks like a "dark and stormy night" with the waves crazed and the sun almost completely gone. In the bottom right, there is a human foot coming out of the water and to the left there are many other limbs coming out as well. It looks like the fish in the ocean are eating the human body parts. The picture is indicating slaves of the 1800's.  On a slave ship one night, the captain started throwing sick and dying slaves off the ship in order to collect insurance money that he could not collect or earn himself. When I look at this picture, I see a lot of different colors indicating a dreary, yet beautiful picture. I really love how the whole picture is dark and then there's one tiny part of the sun shining out off the back of the painting. This piece of artwork is really quite incredible, I think, because the painter brings out the tragedy in a beautiful way. He shows the drama with the limbs in the water while bringing out a true piece of artwork

Kaitlyn spinella

Summer by Claude Monet is an artifact that was made in 1874. When Monet and his artist friends the painters Renoir and Manet went to look at work they made that got rejected be the official "salon" and they Argenteuil where they tried to perfect their artist style.Monet created this sun drenched medoew with lazy mountains in the back round. Paul Cezanne would say to Ambroise Vollard that Monet was an eye but by god what an eye. Monet's artifact is a painting using oil on canvas the style of Monet's work is french Impressionism.i chose this piece because it reminds me of a place I might go just to get away and think. It's and empty medoew with no one around to tell you what to do, your all by yourself your free for a little while. There's no one anywhere to stop you. I think Monet had found this place when he was trying to go somewhere no one would find him and when he say this place stranded with now one in sight he sat down and started to draw it and is beauty. The picture captures such a magnificent sight to see the medoew with the water in the back it looks like there are rolling mountains in the back round, the trees still have color on the leaves it makes the whole scene look perfect .