Rainna's explorations in art.

     While I was looking through my textbook for my psychology class, I came across a painting by a French artist, and I was ever so intrigued. I also remembered there was an artist I wanted to talk about during my romantic blog, but I decided not to, and this seemed like a perfect opportunity to use the painting. Both paintings were about mental illness, and mental health is such an important aspect of so many in modern-day society. But, in 1800 France, mental illnesses were feared and widely unknown. It wasn't just France that was plagued with populus sick in the head, and no one truly knew how to help, but for this post, I'll only be talking about French artists.  Tony Roberts Flury,  Pinel Freeing the Insane, 1876      I wanted to start by introducing a painting that I'm not quite sure where it ended up although I know it was painted in Paris, France. I wanted to give a chance to look into the asylum where individuals were being held in cruel conditions. When one was he

        I've always been partial to the pop art era. Blocks of contrast and bold colors are what I adore about the art movement. I took this as an opportunity to look into many artworks that interest me from a variety of pop art artists. All the artworks I've chosen have a common theme, the media. Some are from comic strips, consumerism, portraits of celebrities, or album covers. Another common theme is most of these artworks have some sort of sexual underline. We see more in the pop art movement how pop culture is using women are sex symbols. The 60s focused on sexuality, consumerism, and technology.  Andy Warhol, Shot Marilyns , 1964 “In August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silkscreening, you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way, you get the same image, slightly different each

      Surrealism was created as a reaction to the horrors of the 1930s. War brought pain and destruction to so many individuals and countries. Art is an expressive way to cope and process what's happening. With Sigmund Freud's theories on unconsciousness, I believe society hid in the recesses of their minds rather than see the death of war. I chose three works of art by three unique artists and mediums to discuss. There are more than just painted artworks that were used to help process the war. There is a variety in their pain and the art from this time shares that.  Otto Dix, S kull , 1924      Otto Dix was another victim of trauma from the war. He was an artillery gunner in trenches on the eastern front. He created a portfolio called Der Krieg, which means the war. In this portfolio, he presents a series of prints that don't promote ww1 nor heroize the soldiers who fought in said war. His prints were about the reality of the death and distraction caused by the aftermath

     I chose the pre-raphaelite and the Hudson River school to discuss. I personally like the pre-raphaelite paintings. The connection between nature and femininity is something I love. It brings out my inner romantic, and I like that about the style.                                         John William Waterhouse, The Soul of the Rose, 1908      I have a sticker of this painting, and I found his painting is both quite alluring and calming to look at, but it is painted from a painful yet romantic poem, the "Maud" written by Alfred Lord Tennyson.      This woman is based on a woman from a poem, that's about two tragic lovers who die at the end of the tale. This painting was an impressionist piece of one of the most famous lines of the poem, "come into the garden, Maud ''.        Waterhouse is an English painter who paints in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s style. He's known for painting love-sick women in nature settings. The women he paints are powerful