The sun becomes the focus because of the red color. It is aimed to capture the fleeting life. Since this piece is painted during the Impressionistic period, the style centers on the overall picture, not on the details. Although some critics derogate Monet’s art for its quality as to whether it can be defined as impressionism, a reaction to the brutal and chaotic transformation of French life both in content and in style, Monet’s painting clearly suggests the fleeting life of urbanized Paris. Unlike the first piece I described, Turner’s The Slave Ship is more dramatic and intense.
It also intensifies the tragic death of St John the Baptist and increases the dramatic impact of the painting. The dark background really make the figures stand out in the painting, it immediately grabs the audience’s attention as there is nothing to distract the audience in the background. The painting shows the main focus is the figures of both Salome and Head of St John with their soft skin tones that deeply contrast with the dark background. While the arms of the mysterious man are not the focus as the right arm is cloaked in the mysterious shadow and almost unseen. You could take notice of the man by his white sleeve on his left arm which is extending from the right side of the border holding the decapitated head by the hair.
The Calling of Saint Matthew created by Caravaggio, brings out emotional effects by manipulating the light on the piece. With all the subjects in the scene, without the lighting, it would be difficult to point out the focus or the focal point of the painting. If all the people were visible as clearly as Matthew is, then the piece looses its meaning and emphasis of what is going on. By highlighting certain elements, and darkening others, he created large contrasts between the two side by side to bring even more emphasis on the main people, mainly by highlighting Matthew. Just like in a motion picture, lighting is used to create a sense of evil, passion, hope, etc.
In his painting, he used bright and bold colors, such as yellows and purples, to exaggerate the colors of the sky, which also reflects off the water. The large cloud in his painting, instead of appearing smooth and fluffy like a realistic cloud, has finger-like projections coming from the top. Thus giving the painting a more eerie feeling. This also shows how Seurat began experimenting with abstract shapes. Instead of using brush strokes, Seurat used the painting technique Pointillism.
Quinton Stevenson February 13, 2012 Eng 101 Analysis of Basquiat’s Cabeza While analyzing the painting by Jean- Michel Basquiat entitled Cabeza, I was initially shocked at the seemingly monstrous character that’s being placed on display. One would think that this is merely a crazy painting done by an even crazier artist, however. Upon further and more in depth analysis there were several things that stood out to me. My first observation was to me the most obvious, the absence of a full head followed by its all black color and its topsy turby facial features. There is also a noticeable lack of limberness in the character.
Van Gogh’s painting of sunflowers gives the viewer a closer look at the individual flowers because of the way he arranges them. Some of the faces of the sunflowers are looking straight ahead while some are turned away which gives the appearance of dying flowers. Van Gogh is trying to express the sadness of the flowers by making them look away. Van Gogh uses the centers of the flowers to make you think that they are like eyes looking into the soul. Van Gogh uses vibrant colors to express the emotions that are associated with sunflowers in life.
They both use oil on canvas; but their styles mentioned earlier was in contrast. In Ingres Painting, the long, gentle curving limbs remind the Mannerist painting than that of a Grek nude, and his colors are rich, reminding Bronzino’s in the Exposure of luxury, his painting looks linear, while on the other hand, Delacroix seems to exhibit good texture of paint itself. Another important contrast is at the pose level: the pose in Ingres painting is positively conservative, while Delacroix’s is less conservative. 2. David, Oath of the Horatti and the Death of Socrates.
Colors are strongly separated and very limited in numbers: white, red, blue, black. There is a strong contrast of light and dark in the area of the skull that goes from the eyes to the mouth, but, once again, it is depicted with a strong separation of the different areas. The placement of red vertical bars on the side and the white-blues drapes on the back of the skull gives a sense of total abstraction and suspension of form and lines. In my opinion there are two different “souls” that coexist in this beautiful painting”: a call to mysticism and a strong nationalism tied into a painting that seems to suggest a strong connection between America and religion. The skull removed from its natural environment, placed in a suspended state in the
The Virgin and Child are also the most prominent figures in the painting. The facial features are more angular, which makes the subjects seem unapproachable or aloof. Giotto is considered by many as a pioneer in incorporating emotion into his paintings. This is very evident in the Lamentation, where one can actually see and feel the anguish of Mary over losing her son. In sharp contrast to Giotto’s style, The Master of the Strauss Madonna’s style of painting seems dull and unmoving.
In his short story “Cathedral” Raymond Carver challenges the conventional ideas often associated with blindness and sight. The irony in this story is that it takes a blind man to make a seeing man see. Most stereotypes tend to make us feel superior in some way to the person or group being stereotyped. Stereotypes ignore the uniqueness of individuals by painting all members of a group with the same brush. All of us have prejudices about members of groups different from ourselves.