April Brown Explorations in Art

                                             First off,  I promise I am not a serial killer with my choosing yet again a decapitated painting to do my art review on.   I chose this piece because I loved the movie Clash of the Titans and there is a great fight scene in the movie with an actress playing Medusa.   I also went to nursing school and did post mortem care often in the hospital setting.  I find it interesting what artists get wrong and right when it comes to painting death.   Last week I analyzed the Renaissance piece the Head of John the Baptist, and after reviewing the Head of Medusa I noted one main difference between the two. In the painting from last week, the peoples faces were more expressionless whereas in this painting, the severed head looked overly dramatic.        While looking for a bar...

        The back story on John the Baptist, John was a profit but not just any profit.  The Gospels describe John the Baptist as being ordained by god as the precursor of Jesus.  He actually baptized Jesus. This man is considered a profit by multiple faiths even Islam.  He was called the baptist because he baptized those who repented their sins.  He didn’t really care about pleasing people and I think that’s what caused him to lose his head.  Whether he was talking about the hypocrisy of the religious establishment or talking about the immorality of King Herod’s second marriage to Salome’s mother he seemed to say whatever he believed even about a king.         I personally believe that women get the shaft when it comes to blame in world history.  As I am a woman, I believe we as a gender were expected to never upset men in any way.  If we were bold and stood out we were generall...

  Art Analysis Blog Guardian Angel Watching Over Children On Bridge Artist Lindbergh Heilige Schutzengel is the artist that created this piece and it is believed he created it as a greeting card in the 1900’s. Painting Oil on Canvas. Schutzengel is a German name so I believe the piece was created in Germany. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/guardian-angel-watching-over-children-on-bridge-lindberg.html My grandmother had this piece of art up in her spare bedroom in a huge oval gold frame.   History of the piece I read up on this piece and an interesting fact I learned was that it is believed to have become so popular because many Americans had access to country bridges at that time in American history and the bridges were not always the most reliable.  This painting was mass produced and in many American homes.   https://www.cfb51.com/area-51/the-story-behind-this-famous-guardian-angel-painting/ The Color There are so many pieces to this piece that I am i...

My name is April Brown.  My husband and I reside in Wasilla, Alaska.  We are a retired military family. We have three children, two of which are in their mid twenties. I’ve had a career in early childcare for thirty years and currently own four childcare centers throughout Alaska.  Family is extremely important to me. Some traditions in our family include a family game night and dinner monthly.  My husband and I enjoy boating on Big Lake.  We are new to boating and intend to put our boat in Kachemak Bay this summer for the first time.  We spend a week on Halibut Cove island off the coast of Homer every year and our boating goals are to be able to boat there ourselves instead of hiring a water taxi every year to get around the bay.  My first introduction to loving art was when I was a child my father bought an expensive oil painting of a galleon ship on the ocean.  I loved the texture of the paint and the swirling shades of blue and green that made...