File:Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night - Google Art Project.jpg. Nocturne (painting) Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee, 1633, depicts a nocturne scene evoking a sense of danger Christ and the Woman of Samaria, 1659, Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso Bay, 1866 Nocturne Trafalgar Square Chelsea Snow, 1876 Nocturne in Pink and Grey, Portrait of Lady Meux, 1881-1882 Frederic Remington, Sunset on the Plains, 1905–1906, is representative of his late Impressionistic style.
The painting is in the West Point Museum Collection, United States Military Academy, New York. The paintings pictured in the gallery below are in order of date completed, left to right: Pretty Mother of the Night—White Otter is No Longer a Boy c. 1900, private collection. Mapping: “Summer Night” (Winslow Homer, 1890) Time: “Summer Night” (Winslow Homer, 1890) Longing: “Summer Night” (Winslow Homer, 1890) Revolution: “Summer Night” (Winslow Homer, 1890) Winslow Homer’s ‘Summer Night’ examined at Harvard Art Museums. Considered by many one of the best nocturnes in the American artistic canon, Winslow Homer’s “Summer Night,” painted in oil at Prouts Neck, Maine, in 1890, is on loan to the Harvard Art Museums from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris through July.
The work, the topic of a discussion series at the museums, is also a favorite of the museums’ Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director Martha Tedeschi. A Homer scholar, Tedeschi said his brilliance was his ability to capture on the canvas “something that most of us couldn’t even put into words.” The Gazette spoke with Tedeschi recently about “Summer Night,” Harvard’s own Homer collection, and the artist’s intent. Similar artworks like "Two Men Contemplating the Moon" Caspar David Friedrich - Artwork on USEUM. Two Men Contemplating the Moon. Johan Christian Dahl.
Letter to Dresden Gëmaldegalerie. September 26, 1840 [published in Christie's sale cat., October 7, 1999, p. 19], remarks that Friedrich made several copies of the Dresden picture. Yale Center For British Art. Yale Center For British Art. Fishermen at Sea. Painting by J.
M. W. Turner Fishermen at Sea, sometimes known as the Cholmeley Sea Piece, is an early oil painting by English artist J. M. Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (J.M.W. Turner) Oil painting c. 1797 by J.
M. W. Turner The work depicts a nighttime view of the River Thames from Millbank, near the current location of Tate Britain, with a low moon glinting on the water and silhouetting buildings, trees, and boats. Turner exhibited the painting at the Royal Academy in 1797, the year after his first work was shown there: another maritime nocturne, Fishermen at Sea. Edvard Munch. Night in St. Cloud. 1890. Starry Night - Edvard Munch. Some of the most emotionally-loaded landscapes from Munch’s Ekely-period are a group of blue-tinted winter night pictures which he painted in a short period between 1922 and 1924.
The motifs, seen from his house at Ekely, convey a sense of calm, harmony and stability which is partly achieved with the help of rounded shapes ]which are joined together in a firm and purposeful construction. The pictures get their light from the starry sky, the night light above the town and the light from his own room. The Night Wanderer. Edvard Munch and His Summer Nights. Edvard Munch was fascinated by the Norwegian summer light which evokes both tranquillity and anxiety, two feelings that Munch tried to capture in his work.
Moving almost every summer to a nearby coastal town, he often worked between 9 and 11 pm in order to precisely capture the unique atmosphere of the summer nights. In his journals, Munch wrote that seaside rocks reminded him of goblins and sea spirits: “In the night’s light which forms have fantastic tones”. Sadly, the home critics didn’t understand Munch’s poetic approach to painting and read his works way too literally. Starry Night (Getty Museum) Edvard Munch, Moonlight – Nasjonalmuseet – Collection. "Don't become an artist!
" Edvard wanted to become an artist early on, and there was no doubt that he had talent. But his father refused to allow him to follow his dream, so Edvard began studying engineering. But already after one year he chose to defy his father, and switched from engineering college to the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in Kristiania, now Oslo. Monday's Feature Art Work: Carnival Evening by Henri Rousseau. Today's feature art work is Carnival Evening painted by the most famous of all the naive artists Henri Rousseau.
I chose this work to follow on from yesterday's past posts which were focused on light. And in this painting light is an essential element. I have provided two analyses of the painting for your interest. At first this painting appears as a charming moonlight scene with a whimisical tone. But look carefully and you see that all is not well.