Variety is created through the different shapes, patterns, and contrasting colors that bring the painting together. Activity C: Evaluating a Painting Directions Evaluate Frida Kahlo’s painting Diego and I. Then answer the following questions. Write your answer in the box. 1.
La Tour carefully and artistically arranged the subjects in a way that the texture causes the viewer to develop an impulse to touch the piece. The pronounced facial expressions definitely give you the illusion that this is a real picture reflecting real people. It is in fact a made up thought that was in the mind of La Tour that he brought to life in this painting. La Tour’s dazzling color selections and elaborate costumes create a brilliant tableau. His characters enact a psychological drama that unfolds through the cues of their sidelong gazes and the measured gestures that signal their next moves.
The painting starts off from the top with different shades of light muddy brown squares that are interrupted by strokes of paint and the splatter of black. The light muddy brown color is the base of the painting, the background that neutralizes the excitement and emphasizes the other colors and shapes giving them more importance. Under the squares are two interesting circles that seem to become eyes. The eyes draws in the viewers because it almost creates the face. This face is important because it illustrates the face's emotion of wildness and excitement as well as if the face was looking at the viewers and their reaction to the painting.
Unlike the first piece I described, Turner’s The Slave Ship is more dramatic and intense. Through this piece, Turner aims to reveal his anger towards the issue behind the slave trading. His use of quick brush strokes and powerful colors of red, yellow, and black parallels the intensity of the piece. His innovative style of painting by defining outlines expresses both the painter’s emotional response to the slave trade and the forces
Analysis; Bailey used colour and value elements in his painting. In his artwork he used the three primary colours of red, yellow and blue. He showed value by how he blends the colours to make it of lighter and darker shades throughout the painting. The principles Bailey used were
Some of the lines are layering, scraping and bold. Also the use of implied lines within the work art creates a sense of movement or direction. For instance, we perceive a line by following the direction indicated by her eyes. In this work of art negative space is employed under several forms, an example of that is the “vee"-shaped negative space facing the both sides of the portrait between both arms and thighs. It creates a balance between the two sides (bottom) of the portrait.
What I enjoyed the most from this painting is its great size as well as its variety of objects and figures, which open your mind and allow you to use your imagination. This painting also caught my attention because it is painted in a wall, that has some crack and bumps, which gives you a scary sensation and creates a tense environment. I considered it very interesting because as you get closer to the picture, you find more details that amazes you and adds to your eagerness of knowing the message and the behind it. The message delivered by this painting is very complex, which can be understood in different way, depending on the point of view and perspective. The colors being used are all dark colors, especially green and dark blue that creates a cold, dark, gloomy, negative which work very well in the world of mythology or an unreal world.
4. Conformity to kind in applying colors Black is considered a color and, in the painter's hands, the range of shadings is capable of creating an impression of many other colors. If color is used, it is always true to the subject matter. This is different from Western art which focuses on colors influenced by lights. 5.
Van Gogh’s use of line, color, motion, and rhythm spoke to me the strongest. We learned in chapter 1 the definitions and functions of these elements and principles. A line connects two points, defines boundaries between planes and shapes, directs the viewer’s eye, and conveys a sense of movement and energy. Color attracts our attention and excites our emotions; our perceptions of color are personal and subjective. When an object changes location motion has occurred.
When he felt he had the right image he would then project the slide onto a canvas and pencil in both lines and details. The reason why Goings was so amazingly talented is because he could paint the photograph with such profound detail that the audience would be able to see detail that they would typically not be able to see in reality. "My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, color and space are at the whim of reality, their discovery and organization is the assignment of the realist painter." The painting called Ralphs Diner (1982) is a great example of the vivid detail he used with light color and texture.