Friday, July 29, 2011
Galleries, Exhibits & Shows: Famous Oil Paintings Photo Essay Revised
I decided to revise my Galleries, Exhibits & Shows: Famous Oil Paintings photo essay because again, like my Parks, Monuments, and Memorials: Roger Williams photo essay lacked my true feelings and opinions of each picture. For my original piece, I just took pictures off Google.com and pasted on to my blogs without a description of the photo or my feelings or thoughts on each particular photo and make it more personal.
This is the famous picture of The Mona Lisa. Her real name is Lisa Gherardini and she is the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. This portrait was painted in oil by the famous Leonardo da
Vinci in the year circa 1503-1519. This particular photo is located in Musee du Louvre, Paris.
This is an amazing photo. I think any photo of a human being is amazing. This picture looks perfect, that it does not even look like an oil painting. It looks more like a photograph.
This is the Arnolfini Portrait. It is an oil painting by Jan van Eyck in the year 1434. This painting is located in National Gallery, London.
This is an another amazing painting, because the picture looks so real. Again, it does not look like an oil painting at all. I love the details in the painting such as the pregnant woman and the puppy.
This painting is The Milkmaid by Jahannes Vermeer. Others call this painting the Kitchen Maid.
It is a painting of a maid pouring milk into a bowl. It looks like she is preparing a meal to serve. She also looks unhappy. Like she feels unappreciative. And also like she puts everyone first before her. She is second to everyone and she just deals with it. I like this painting. It does not look like a painting, instead it looks more of a photograph that someone snapped of this woman. This picture is very dark and sad and I like the intensity of the painting.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Parks, Monuments, and Memorials: Roger Williams Park Photo Essay Revised
I decided to revise my Roger Williams Park photo essay. I felt that out of all of bundles that this one was weak and needed to be improved. Also by the feedback from my professor Jamie White Farnham she gave me some insight on how I could improve this particular document. She wanted me to actually write my feelings about each photo. The photos that I took for my original photo essay were from Google.com. So to improve my photo essay I decided to actually visit Roger Williams Park and snap photos myself to make it more personal.
This is a picture of the Temple to Music. This place serves as a great place to have festivals, concerts, and other events. At the time when I snapped a picture, it looks like there was a Hispanic event going on. I saw people dancing and music was playing and everyone looked as though they were having a good time. Now the back of the temple is a beautiful body of water...
This is the body of water right in back of the Temple to Music. I decided to snap a pic of the ducks swimming in the water in a line. People next to me were fishing and pulled out a small fish. Other people had beach chairs and just sat by the water and admired nature. It shows that people truly admire this park and nature...
While I ventured off in the park to find more exciting things that I can snap pictures of, I cam across this waterfall. It is so beautiful in person. I was taken back because I have been to Roger Williams Parks over 100 times and I never saw this waterfall. I live in Providence, off of Broad Street, so I stay in that area. This waterfall was actually in the Cranston area, off of Park ave. When I was taking a view of the waterfall, I zoned out. The sound of the water falling and the view was breath taking and it made me feel at peace at the time. I know that I will take another visit to this waterfall soon.
Lastly, the famous eagle statue. There is not much information on this statue. This statue is right at the exit of the park, if you were heading towards Broad street. Its just a big white statue of an eagle and I pass by it every time when I exit the park.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Bundlle 3
I didn't know much about oil painting. So I thought it would be a great idea to chose something that I had no prior knowldege about and learn as I go. As I was doing research for my bundle project, one thing that stuck out to me was the Mona Lisa picture. I did not know that it was an oil painting. I was amazed by all the oil paintings that I had researched. My favorite would have to be Monte's Water Lilies. This painting was beautiful.
Famous Oil Painters Bundle 3
Claude Monet was born in Paris, France. He is famous for his water lilies paintings which depict Monet's flower garden at Girveny.
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890)
Vincent is famous for his slef-portraits. To the left is one of his self portraits. He has made 37 self-portraits.
Bundle 3 Famous Oil Paintings
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The Mona Lisa
The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck, 1434
Water Lilies, Claude Monet, 1916
Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Vincent van Gogh, 1890
Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer, 1658–60
View of Delft in oil paint, by Johannes Vermeer
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