Art103_Wenwei

1.Theme: Animals Artist:  Georg Scholz Title:  Small Town by Day Date: 1922–23 1. Its medium is oil on board. 2. The painting strongly shows German culture in the time period. 3. It also was affected by political and social factors. Theme: Fashion Artist: Jean Metzinger Title:  Woman with a Fan Date:1913 1.  Metzinger felt the need to include elements of the real world into his paintings of the period. 2.  Here Metzinger is almost exclusively concerned with principles of pictorial construction: the interplay of horizontals, verticals, and curves, with color playing an important but secondary role. 3.

Title: The Lovers Artist Name: Rene Magritte Time: 1928        In this painting, two figures were shown, one male and the other female locked in an embrace. The guy wears a business suit. The female wears a dress. The work shows the expression of loving aimlessly. Love can be developed without any external factors, and it just follows heart and feelings. Actually, from the painting, enshrouded  faces were a common  m otif  in Magritte’s art. The artist was 14 when his mother committed suicide by drowning. He witnessed her body being fished from the water; her wet nightgown wrapped around her face. Some have speculated that this trauma inspired a series of works in which Magritte obscured his subjects ’ faces. Magritte disagreed with such interpretations, denying any relation between his painting  and his mother’s death. “My painting is visible images which conceal nothing,” he wrote, “they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one o...