Martin Johnson Heade’s oil painting from 1863 entitled Singing Beach, Manchester, located in the De Young Museum’s landscape gallery (room 26), depicts a gleaming sunrise on an Atlantic seashore. In this work, Heade captures the dramatic moment of transition from opaque night to daylight with turbulent beauty, inspiring a feeling of awe and submission toward nature’s ceaseless, cyclical forces. The darkened sky yields reluctantly to the morning sun emerging from below the horizon, as the agitated seascape reflects the unfolding drama above through light and shadow. The unseen presence of the rising sun is suggested by an intense band of radiant pink hues forming on the right side of the horizon, which bleed into the sky through moody tonal gradations, casting an orange haziness below the murky grey and green layers that once colored the expiring night. In accordance with the American Luminist tradition, Heade places the horizon in a rather low position, accentuating the vast expanse of the sky.
I have an interest in Greek mythology, and I like to see how stories are brought to life through pictures. It is interesting to see how one interprets stories into to a visual form. I especially like the usage of color in this painting. My favorite part of the painting is the two angles. The way the blue wrap is entangled between the two angles shows how graceful the wind is that is bringing Venus to the shore.
Joyce Myers Formal Analysis October 28, 2011 A Formal Analysis of Andrew Wyeth’s Scuba Andrew Wyeth painted Scuba in 1994, using egg tempera on panel. Tempera is made by mixing ground pigments with whole eggs or egg yolks thinned with water. Clear, almost opaque painting is the effect created by this medium. There are some advantages to using egg tempera. The colors remain bright and the luster will not dull over the years.
The Gulf of Marseilles Seen from L’Estaque, 1885, is another fascinating outdoor scene and projects the view of the gulf from the top of a fishing village. The earth tones of blue, brown and green are clear as if the sun and the sky was making it appear this way. The scene is inviting and refreshing as if you were actually there which calls for its placement to be in patient waiting areas and consultation rooms. The second painting from Cezanne is the Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley, 1882-85 and will be placed in entry ways and hallways for it’s way of introducing industrial elements. This work has a modern architectural detail added to the natural landscape.
Sydney sun encompasses the spirited energy of Sydney. From the powerful life-giving energy of the sun, the squiggly lines of yellow resemble the rays of the sun that become prior, meandering tentacles, at one with the plant forms and the scatter of pollen, and with the various creatures that have come under the sun’s spell. The work was originally conceived as a ceiling painting and at the time it was painted in that it conveyed a sense of place in strikingly fresh
I visited Zimmerli Art Museum. 1.View of the New Brunswick Railroad Bridge by John Jesse Barker. [pic] This painting presents the scene of daily life in New Brunswick. The medium using in this painting is oil on canvas. The artist’s realistic style and subtle oil paintings reflect every detail of people’s everyday life.
The film uses colour imagery right from the start. The film opens up with a beautiful back drop of a warm, glowing sun rise. As the film goes on we see the luscious green countryside and the islanders wearing bright oranges and reds representing the Jamaican happy go lucky attitude towards life. The overall feeling you get from the setting shown to you is a warm one where you can sense the happy go lucky feeling to a place like this. You can't imagine anything bad happening in a place as beautiful as this.
Their paintings reflected every day scenes and landscapes, often painting on location and in plein-air (the open air). Nature was the main focus of the Impressionists, as was light. They aimed to represent the sensation of light. The brush stroke technique adopted by impressionist was that of short brush strokes of pure colour (they avoided black and brown), also known as the broken colour technique. The paint was often thick and lumpy,
Everything down to the rocks on the ground seem to have a green tint to them and the reflection of the Lights upon the water show just how intense this special spectacle of light really is. The lights are off centered and complimented by the starry sky right next to it. Every time I look at this picture, it makes me feel like a part of me is missing; that is, I have never seen something so beautiful as that in person. My next favorite art piece of his is taken in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The image seems so full of energy at first glance.
Red signifies danger as well as the color of a matador’s cape, whereas Pamplona is described simply as a yellow town. This creates vivid imagery of a hot, dry, sandy village. The two are symbolically linked in the tenth paragraph: “The yellow and red Spanish flag blowing in the morning wind.” The repetition of these key words works very well, conjuring up images