Essays on Artwork

What is Art? How would one even begin to answer that question? We’ve been around for thousands and thousands of years, yet as a race, we still struggle with understanding and explaining these abstract ideas such as, art, or beauty, or form. It takes some...

I am writing about balloon dogs. The artist is Jeff Koons. Jeff Koons is known for his brightly colored reflective sculptures that resemble balloons. One of Jeff Koons pieces were sold for about 98. 4 million dollars. Jeff Koons was born January 21,1955. He was...

I am mentioning Jeff Koons ‘The Masters Collection’ collaboration with Louis Vuitton (fig. 1), as this particular contemporary artwork relates to John Berger’s theory. Berger states ‘because of the camera, the painting now travels to the spectator rather than the spectator to the painting. In...

Just from looking at his works of art you can see that he has been influenced by pop artists. Although he will not consider himself a pop art (he is considered a Neo-Pop Artist), you can see this style was an influence on him especially...

Japanese art is very rich and includes many styles of art and media such as pottery, ink painting and calligraphy on scrolls and silk, sculpture, ceramics, woodblock prints, and ukiyo-e, which means “pictures of the floating world”, modern manga comics and anime cartoons, and many...

The Thean Hock Keng Temple is a watercolour painting painted on paper. The artwork is painted by Gog Sing Hooi in 1984, two years after the temple was built. He was well known for his transparent watrecolour portrayal of Singapore. It is a painting portraying...

Art Spiegelman wrote and illustrated the graphic novel Maus in 1980 about his father, Vladek Spiegelman’s, experiences as a Holocaust survivor. The novel depicts the gruesome reality of terrifying genocide of millions of Jews carried out by the Nazi government during World War II. Since...