A Landscape with a River at Ending

This is the first time I have ever seen this painting before. It is by Aert van der Neer, who was a Dutch painter. He painted this in 1650 with oil on canvas. This painting is called A Landscape with a River at Ending. This artist usually paints just pictures of landscapes and fields. Nothing to out of the ordinary, but he used a lot of details in each of his paintings I saw.

I really liked this painting. The clouds look really cool and quite realistic. You can actually see the leaves in the big tree, though all of the colors are very dark in the painting. I think that paintings of landscapes are very common, but this one stuck out to me. The sunset in the distance over the water just looks real.




http://www.nationalgalleryimages.co.uk/Imagedetails.aspx?q=NG2283&ng=NG2283&frm=1
http://www.lib-art.com/artgallery/8807-evening-landscape-with-horsemen-and-aelbert-cuyp.html
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/aert-van-der-neer-a-landscape-with-a-river-at-evening

Mona Lisa

Everyone knows of this famous painting, the Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci. Many people believe that it was painted between 1505-1506 and was finished when he was in Rome or Milan. This is a painting of the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. This painting became especially famous when it was stolen in August 1911 but later returned. It is one of the most famous paintings of all time and can often be seen in many places.

This is also one of my favorite paintings. da Vinci used such details but so slightly. And the look that she is giving makes me really question what she was thinking about while he was painting this and what was really on her mind. Those paintings are the best paintings when you question what was going on.








http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/joconde/
http://www.harley.com/art/abstract-art/images/(davinci)-mona-lisa.jpg
http://www.museumspot.com/know/monalisa.htm
http://history1900s.about.com/od/famouscrimesscandals/a/monalisa.htm

Broadway 1936

Above is Broadway 1936 painted by Mark Tobey. This along with many of his other painted are all influenced and inspire by New York City. Broadway was not one of his most famous paintings, but one of many people's favorites. This one picture was inspired by Times Square. You can see all of it, including cars driving by, and little people, along with the city streets and lights.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5217

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/tobey_mark.html

http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/art/tobey.htm

I have never seen this painting before today, but I really like and might have to say that it is one of my favorites. The colors that Tobey use are subtle yet very bright. Every stroke of paint just flows together, yet you can still see that it is Times Square.

http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/7/786/DB4I000Z/mark-tobey-broadway-1936.jpg