Movement and Style

“An Architectural Fantasy” was created by Jan van der Hayeden in the year 1670; “A Scene on the Ice” was created by Hendrick Avercamp in the year 1625. Both paintings are from the 17th century, they were also painted by Dutch artists. Since they are from a similar culture and time period they are both inspired by the same movement. Movement in art can be described as a tendency or style with a specific common philosophy during a certain period of time. In these paintings the movement that they were inspired by is “Realism”, Realism is depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life. In Hayeden’s painting there is shown people doing every day things, they are not used for interpretation. In Avercamps painting there are also people doing activities for fun or for work purpose, but these activities are not uncommon and can be preformed.
When it comes to art styles, they both use a "representational" style, which means the work depicts something easily recognized by most people. When we see Avercamp’s painting we know that there are people doing activities such as walking, sitting, even begging. Since we can recognize these activities it makes the art “Representational”. In Hayeden’s painting there are people skating, playing sports, and working; as mentioned before this also creates a style called “Representational”.
Both artists used similar styles and were inspired by the same movement. The artists both painted in the 17th century, and most if not all of the Dutch artist utilized these techniques, setting a distinguished art style.

Midterm Pictures

Midterm: My artist statement

Andy Warhol was my inspiration on creating my midterm project. His personality is mysterious; this attracts me to him the most. I enjoy all the vibrant bright colors he uses mostly primary and secondary. My projects is called “The purse of and 8-year-old fan”, it contains objects that a young girl from the 60’s would carry in her purse. One of these objects is a book, this book has various form of art presented in it. You can find symmetry; in a section of the book the objects on both pages are completely balanced in the same areas creating this symmetry. You can find complementary colors, like green and red throughout the entire book. Andy Warhol seems like he just “goes with the flow” of what’s going on, but stays focused on his goals and is not sidetracked by society. This is how I think of myself, mostly with what I wear, I dress very vibrant sometimes, with prints that are uncommon or I can dress "plain". “The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me t o say and I’ll repeat them after him”, Andy said this in 1968, he wasn’t open to talk about his thoughts, and like I mentioned before this makes his a mysterious man. My book has plenty art work by him that show his strangeness, for example portraits of celebrities that have skin and hair different colors like green, yellow, blue, and red. His art can inspire anyone with an open mind.

Works Cited


“Andy Warhol”, Carter Ratcliff, 1983
Cross River Press, Ltd., New York, pg. 107-110.




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Screen printing project

My class has been working on screen printing for almost 2 weeks. During these two weeks we have learned to stretch monofilament on stretchers, cover this with emulsion, and print to make creative designs on cloth. My design was a drawing of me by my boyfriend, he gave me this drawing as a Christmas present, and so I decided to make something for him also. I screen printed the image on two ties; one was repeated with different colors. The tie without the multiple prints in different colors was very subtle. This was a very fun project; I think it makes a great gift idea.

POP ARTIST: Andy Warhol

"Everybody will be famouse for 15 minutes", Andy Warhol.
Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American Pop artist. He was a painter, an avant-garde filmmaker, a commercial illustrator, writer and celebrity. His famouse art works are Campbell's Soup Can 1968, the paintings of Marilyn Monroe, and flims like Batman Dracula 1964.

Themes of Art

The themes of art are was of approaching the study of art. Its another way of classifying artwork that can be helpful for the understanding of it. One can find more than one theme of art in a piece. For the following painting there is one that I believe is the most important to mention. This them is "Political and Social Order".

Jan Van Der Hayden expresses this theme in his painting "An Architectural Fantasy". The characters how the different lifestyles of societies social order. The men are at a higher social status than the woman that is begging them for money, since they are wealthier than her. Social status is defined by wealth and power in society, those who have more are higher than those who have less. The men are leaving a palace, the palace itself is a major symbol of power. One can see the difference the in attire of the men and that of the woman, she is not in clean clothes unlike them. The outside area of the gates of the palace are not as clean as inside so this suggests that those outside the walls are of a lower status.

Just as Hayden presents different classes of society, Avercamp's, "A Scene on Ice", does the same. This painting ha many wealthy people enjoying the ice skating, while in the lower left corner there is a poor fisherman surveys them. There are women in beautiful dresses riding a sleigh, children playing a sport that is a mix between hockey and golf called "Kolf". The attire of the characters are the main way of identifying a social status. Those who are dresses better have more money and power than those who do not have as nice clothes.

Both paintings have illustrated the Political and Social Order of its characters. And although this is not the only theme of art that one can identify, it is the most noticeable.