In this essay I am going to examine two paintings by the same artist JD Ferguson; 'The Pink Parasol' and the ‘Hat with Bird'. The theme of these paintings is women and the women that I have chosen seem to be elegant due to their posture and clothing. In this essay I will discuss the visual elements most predominate in these paintings which, in my opinion, are colour, tone and texture, I will also compare and contrast the images and choose my favourite of the two paintings. JD Ferguson was the first of four children and attended the Royal High School. Although he briefly trained as a Naval Surgeon, Ferguson soon realised that his ambition was painting and he spent some time travelling in Spain, Morocco and France to develop his artistic knowledge and experience.
At first glance of any of Kahlo’s artwork, her portraits are very real but yet dreamlike. In a sense, the way she creates her pieces of work always display what is revolving around her life whether it is her husband, her fruit, or surprisingly dealing with her many medical illnesses. It is easy to decipher her artworks from other artists of the same time because of her stern black eyes, her traditional Mexican headdress and her ever -famous one eyebrow. Even as she creates her mirror image she evokes her inner
The red dress is crucial in this respect, because it's what causes the attention. The red dress is why they see her , its passion, desire, and attitude. "I want it too tight, I want to wear it until someone tears it off me" (lines 3,4). Addonizio surrounds the speaker with images of everyday life. The speaker confesses, describing how it will make her fell as though she is the only woman on earth.
However, White and Greens in Blue is a painting of large scale, displaying two huge green rectangles and one white rectangle on the blue background. This is referred to as Color Field Painting. Color Field Painting is the abstract painting “characterized by large expanses of barely contrasts of tone or obvious focus attention”. (Thesis:) White and Greens in Blue embodies Rothko’s revolutionary painting method, which allows the viewer to experience the tragic feeling through its shape, texture, flatness, scale, and color. Rothko compares the shapes in his pictures to actors and his pictures to dramas.
The painting of Pablo Picasso’s “Girl in the Chemise” was painted in 1905. It is portable sized oil on canvas portrait, measuring 60 x 72.7cm, which is currently displayed in the Tate gallery, London. The only subject in the painting is young woman wearing a white chemise. She is in a central position on the canvas; standing in profile, looking to the right, in the viewer’s perspective. She is in front of a dark blue background, and the picture plane is level with the observer.
This combination of analytical and synthetic cubism reflects Picasso’s interest in ideas perception and reality in painting. Picasso introduced Analytical Cubism into the art world during 1908 to 1912 as the early phases of cubism. It is recognisable by its use of geometric shapes being abstracted and distorted to show multiple viewpoints which is clearly shown in the artwork “Still Life with a Cane Chair”. Doing this explores reality closer to truth as you visually grasp many angles rather than just one. When we see an object in reality we see every side of it and we mentally create a 3D picture of it in our head so using
However, within her paintings are clues that reveal her inner emotions and thoughts at the time the painting was executed. The facial expressions in her self-portraits are, for the most part, without emotion and don't reveal her true mood. Joanna Latimer states, “it is everything else in the painting that are the clues; the backgrounds, the colors, the theme, and the style” in her article, Unsettling bodies: Frida Kahlo’s Portraits and in/dividuality (Latimer 13). With this, viewers can see her self-portraits have a story to tell. Frida’s life has had a number of painful events that have affected her paintings.
In Picasso’s painting he uses cubism by showing all sides of the prostitutes at once on a two-dimensional surface. In myartslab it explains how Picasso’s painting uses a wide range of influences such as the Egyptian statuary, Greo-Roman sculptures of women and African sculpture in particular with the mask. This painting however was strongly influenced by Picasso’s African Period which lasted from 1907 to 1909 which is explained in the textbook reading. This painting was the pivotal point of cubism in the art movement and abstract art. In Picasso’s painting of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon you can see how he imposes geometrical symmetries in the women (cubism).
She became a mother and moved to Paris. This didn’t stop her from her graffiti art. She went into more depth in her creations. Fafi made the Fafinettes(creations) not only fly girls but, they also run a whole universe of creatures, homes and vehicles. One of Fafi’s paintwork is a painting of a girl creation on the wall.
As she was considered the most beautiful maiden in the village Di had to weave the lucky red banner that was hung from the rafters of the new building. In this case the colour red symbolized luck and the budding romance between the pair of young lovers. Di aims to make the banner especially beautiful, as she knows the teacher will think of her whenever he sees it hanging. This red banner becomes a way to show the teacher [Luo] that she is