Rebecca's Art Exploration

  Judith Slaying Holofernes   by Artemisia Gentileschi Artemisia Gentileschi's Life Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome, Italy on July 8,1593. Her father, Orazio, was an accomplished painter and responsible for her artistic training. (Biography). When Gentileschi was seventeen years old, she was raped by her father's business partner, Agostino Tassi. Tassi was an artistic mentor to Gentileschi and close friend of her fathers (Camara). This abhorrent attack gave Artemisia the determination that she used to successfully break into the art world dominated by men. She used her experience to shape her paintings and express emotions on a deeper level by often depicting female heroes in her work in a realistic empowering way. Impression Gentileschi is the epitome of Baroque art. As the Renaissance period saw the Protestant Reformation in Europe, the Baroque was a direct response from the Catholic church to counter that reformation. The Council of Trent was formed as part of the co...

  Primavera, meaning Spring, was painted by Sandro Botticelli in 1480.  Botticelli and the Medici Family Sandro Botticelli was born in 1445 in Florence Italy as Alessandro Filipepi and apprenticed for an artist already supported by the wealthy Medici Family. By the time Botticelli was a teen, he had his own studio in the Medici Palace and had befriended the young Medici heir, Lorenzo Medici (PBS). Lorenzo de' Medici's biography points to the The Medici family as being a wealthy political powerhouse in Florence thriving on their banking and commerce business and giving them the ability to become one of the great art patrons of their time. Botticelli was not only close in proximity to the Medici family, he was close in age to Lorenzo and therefore able to create a lifelong bond with who would become Lorenzo the Magnificent, defacto ruler of Florence. I believe the Medici's were a heavy influence on his Botticelli's art. Impression This painting was commissioned to be a we...

This piece is called "Church at Yuquot Village" created by Emily Carr in 1929. It was originally called "Indian Church" but was renamed by the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2018 due to cultural sensitivity. This church was built by missionaries as part of an assimilation effort. Art Elements The artist, Carr, uses many art elements in conjunction with one another. The church uses vertical lines in the building that suggest strength , the pitch of the  triangle roof leads the eye up to the steeple topped with a cross. This creates a sense for me that the church was showing their strength and purpose through their building. The strong vertical design matched with a roof that pitched the eye upwards to the cross that represents the religion from which the church is born of. The church is a man-made shape painted white to represent purity, cleanliness, and innocence, all important values to the church.  The church is surrounded by natural patterns produced by the forest...