The Last Supper
Leonardo Da Vinci, 1495–1498
Tempara on gesso, pitch and mastic
460 × 880 cm, 181 × 346 in
Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Website: http://www.arssacra.org/images/lastsupper_leonardo.jpeg

This is a very famous painting. Leonardo Da Vinci painted/sculpted/invented countless other things. They did not have much red paint in the 1500s, so it was expensive. He uses the red to draw your eyes to the middle. He uses mainly cool colors. There are almost no straight lines. Around the time it was invented, the + and - signs were invented, along with the printing press, and Columbus found America.

Michael Yosef Robinson, Yosef’s dreams, 8" x 10" Private collection Website: http://www.yosefdreams.com/images/yoseffront.jpg

This is a picture of one of Josephs dreams from the story "Joseph aand the amazing technicolor dream coat." At least, that's what it was called when I heard it. Some people call it other things. The coat is drawn a different style with brighter colors than the rest. The painting looks soft, rather than flat.

Paul Klee - "Temple Gardens" - (1920) Gouache and traces of ink on paper The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. Website: http://www.metmuseum.org/store/images/Z.po.B2464.R(1).jpg

This is formalism because it is unrealistic and does not focus on emotion. It uses mainly "warm" colors, but if you look closely it has many "cool" colors too. This was painted 6 years after a visit to Tunisia. He cut it into 3 pieces with scissors, and rearranged it. The shapes are mostly semicircles and squares. Shortly before it was painted, there was the Russian Revolution and the inventions of the first commercially successful automobile and plastic.

Cassius Coolidge b. 1844, Dogs Playing Poker, 1903, Private collection. Website: http://unpopulartruths.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/dogs-playing-poker.jpg


I think this is funny, because dogs couldn't REALLY play poker. That chihuahua might win though. It has 3 aces. I guess they don't want to be seen, because they're playing at 1:15. The chihuahua and the bulldog have the most chips. It could be the computer, but it looks like there are circular brushstrokes. I think this is emotionalism, because when I look at it I think of funny things. It seems to be all cool colors at first, but at a second glance it uses a lot of red. The painter was commissioned to paint a whole set of similar paintings. Intrestingly enough, when this was painted, there was a law against gambling that was not widley enforced.

John Howe, Gorfindel and the balrog, 1989, 46.5 x 63.8 cm, private collection. Website: http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/data/media/35/GlorfindelAndTheBalrog.jpg



This picture is from a Lord Of The Rings fanfiction. They are very high up on a mountain, based on a cliff in Ireland. The mountains in the back are based on a range in Ireland. There are cracks in the mountain, meaning the artist paid close attention to detail. The balrog apears to be off balance, and is striking out at the mountainside itself. The lines seem to nearly all be curved, and only "cool" colors are used. I think this is realism because it is drawn to look like it would if it were real. It was painted before the movie came out, meaning it was based entirely on the book. Further proving this, is the fact that the balrog is not on fire, as it was in the movie.

Faith Ringgold (American) b. 1930, The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles, 1991 Acrylic on canvas, tie-dyed, peiced fabri border, 74x80 inches, private collection.



This was made by Faith Ringgold. She wrote the book Tar Beach.
I don't know much about this quilt, though I see Van Gogh in the background...
It has lots of sunflowers, like what Van Gogh painted.