If the painting were to be cut in half we would be able to see approximately the same amount of lilies on one side as well as the other. This would also be true for the young native girl, the way her feet are positioned and the extension of her arms allows to see how symmetrical the painting is. The painting also has many organic lines and shapes; the massive flowers have curved lines and are two-dimensional. On the other hand the stems of the lilies have vertical lines, the vertical lines make our eyes look up at the large lilies. On the other hand the scale and proportion of the lilies are not accurate to reality.
VISUAL ANALYSIS: GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING Vermeer’s paintings are indeed “a reflection of reality”, rather than art. Most of his paintings, such as The Little Street and The Love Letter, are like mirrors that capture all the details that reality has to offer. However Girl with a Pearl Earring is not a “reflection”; it displays the depth of thought of the painter on which the viewer can only speculate. Maybe the most well-known painting Vermeer has produced, Girl with a Pearl Earring is a special piece of art becuase one of a few portraits without a solid background. Although at first glimpse the background appears to be pitch black, recent analysis indicates that Vermeer had painted a translucent layer of green which has faded over time, over the dark under-painting, to create a lustrous tone that sharply contrasts the warm skin tone of the Girl, amplifying the light tone in the object, thus producing a much more three-dimensional optical effect of the object.
This painting has symbolic meaning as it tries to communicate the story of Aphrodite. There was a new found interest in ancient Greece, during the time it was painted, and so, it illustrates the Greek myth. The Birth of Venus illustrates the fact that this culture glorifies and defines beauty through the usage of the female form. The bodies are painted in a way that honors the human body in a way that is not shameful. I love the painting, The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli.
In this text powerful images, with few words, are used to express the young girls state of being. Her room is a soft pastel colour which symbolizes a safe and warm environment. The safe and warm environment undergoes a dramatic change as the girls room is swamped with an abundance of blackened leaves. Contrast in colour is used again as the dark tone of the leaves represents sadness, loneliness and
David, Oath of the Horatti and the Death of Socrates. How do David’s paintings reflect the Neoclassical interest in Greek aesthetics, culture, and values? Neoclassical painting typically involved an emphasis on austere linear design in the depiction of classical events, characters and themes, using historically correct settings and costumes. Its emergence was greatly stimulated by the new scientific interest in classical antiquity that arose during the course of the 18th century. In David compositions, it is evident that the costumes, the events, the characters, the themes and the settings fit uncontestably in an historical contest, with all it beauty.
This thought is also consistent with light direction. From the left upper part to the right lower part, the painting becomes darker. Brighter left upper part stresses the focus of the painting – the young woman once again. Space Leonardo had used a lot of space around three people. The ground, sky and mountain which are surrounding them provides the space.
Ben Quilty – Margaret Olley Ben Quilty is a young artist who recently won the last Archibald prize with his portrait of his idol Margaret Olley, a fellow Australian artist that he deeply admires. Quilty’s technique, image and use of elements and principles reflect on his feelings towards his model. The materials used in his portrait of Margaret are suspected to be oil paint because the texture of the paints looks to be think and gloopy. It doesn’t look smooth of blended anywhere, there are also signs of the use of a palate knife along the right cheek and the brow of Margaret’s head. There is also a lack of paint for a majority of her face; the bright white of Margaret’s face is actually the surface of the canvas.
The short brush strokes allow various colors to exist side-by side with little mixing, which together create a vibrant surface and optical mixing of colors. The use of color also creates the perception of space. The far side of the hill is painted in a cooler color (baby blue and soft pale pink) with less detail. It seems like the sky is casting its colors over the shadowy areas. Monet uses bright colors (even on shadows), soft contour lines and the painterly method to translate the soft and luminous effects of nature.
It is similar however due to the very neutral colors being used in the painting. There is a lot of while and black and then brown hues, red hues, some yellow hues and some green/blue hues, however they are all very dark in value and it gives a black and white feel to the painting. Another similarity is the perspective. The perspective in the photograph is very similar to that of the painting, where you have the dead men in the foreground and the horizon in the background both having similar vanishing points and points of view. Another similarity is value of the sky and the foreground.
In the fifth paragraph, she jumps out of the story of the spider behind the toilet and begins her story about how she would go up to the Blue Ridge Mountains just to read and about the moth that flew into the candle flame and burned alive. This story proceeds to the conclusion of her essay. Woolf’s essay on the other hand is substantially easier to follow due to the fact that she stays in present tense throughout her entire essay. Opposed to Dillard’s, her word choice is rather advanced, however, due to the simplicity of her paragraph structure; it is much easier to follow. Other than Woolf’s difficult diction, the other factor that makes her writing hard to follow by the