There are mostly vertical and horizontal lines, as opposed to diagonal lines. The artist uses closed form in this painting and there are clear outlines and smooth brush strokes. The painting has a central format; the important is in the center. In this painting the artist uses linear perspective; this is a technique where things appear to get smaller as they go back in space. This technique also creates a depth in a flat surface.
The visual representation and selection of colours of the cartoon provides a greater understanding and insight into what this cartoon is signifying. Juxtaposing colours draw the eyes towards the most predominant part of the cartoon- the linear path on which the man is walking. This path is white- a colour connoting purity, knowledge and wisdom. It is bright and illuminated, as opposed to the foreground, background and the sky, which are all flushed with black and deep greys. These colours connote the idea of desolate emptiness, a “dark area” of unknown and indefiniteness.
Aluminium paint is a coating material which has a resin base filled with solid pieces or flecks of aluminium. The resin helps the paint to flow easily and provide strength and durability while the aluminium gives a shiny and metallic-like finish. This type of paint usually has a silvery finish and most manufacturers produce it in only one shade of colour while some mix pigments into them to create different colours. But no matter what colour paint it is, over time the paint tends to darken. Pollock also used unstretched and unprimed canvas across the floor of his studio.
Matthew has his head down which could symbolize submission. The type of medium that Caravaggio uses is in the visual category, a painting to be more specific. The medium that Caravaggio chose does suite what he is trying to convey. With a painting, Caravaggio is able to use light, texture and color to show the divinity in the light. He is able to capture expression and emotion in the characters as well as their dimensions.
In Guernica, Picasso uses a variety of visual elements to create the story depicted through his images. To begin, Picasso uses lines to outline and form the characters and objects in the painting. The use of lines in this painting also creates various textures all throughout. For example, Picasso adds texture to the painting by including hair to the figures, by adding bricks to the back wall, by adding wood grain to (what appears to be) a log, by adding tile to the floor, as well as incorporating a pattern that resembles newspaper print. This painting gives the illusion of form because it has three-dimensional aspects due to Picasso’s use of lines and shading.
The painting is quite simple and even the skull is deprived of some of the complexity of it thus looking almost stylized. The placement of the skull at the top with the large horns taking almost all the top size of the painting together with the placement of the black empty area in the center clearly forms the shape of a cross. The painting is very simple, with a clear and well defined trait defining the shape of the skull and the color areas. The skull is perfectly centered and is portrayed with the left side of it almost perfectly mirroring ¾ of the right side. Colors are strongly separated and very limited in numbers: white, red, blue, black.
Jackson Pollock used art as a way to express and convey his feelings and emotions and even the struggles that he has endured. Creative accidents in the art world influenced Pollock as he explored and attempted different methods of paint application. The American artist relied heavily on showing his feelings and thoughts indirectly through art by drip paintings. This painting has representation of gestural abstraction in which he applies paint in an unplanned and impulsive manner. In Full Fathom Five, Pollock used multiple layers of paint to create a build up as well as implanting random objects to the surface.
Ukiyo-e woodblock prints were not black and white, but it was very colorful and bright colored woodblock prints. Ukiyo-e’s special features are first, the use of line and the flatness. Ukiyo-e was formed by line, which they outlined all the figures and the objects in the print, and the blank space and the designed part were divided very clearly, so it did not give three dimensional effect. Second, Ukiyo-e showed bright and unrestricted color. Bright and intense color made the print very flat and gave enrich of expression.
11/13/2012 Formal Analysis on Campendonk’s “Bucolic Landscape” Heinrich Campendonk’s “Bucolic Landscape” exemplifies the genre of German expressionism. The playful panoply of colors on canvas, and the composition that borders on, but does not quite reach, the chaotic, engages the viewer in many different ways. Every space of Campendonk’s canvas is consumed in some way by shape, color, texture, and line. Although “Bucolic Landscape” is representational, the features of the landscape borders on the abstract. The viewer can find at least one human figure, and many animal and plant forms in the painting.
“The importance of line cannot be overestimated. In two-dimensional art and in painting a flowing line usually begins as a fine narrow line, wells out and returns to a narrow line. The line may trace the outline of the form and then become part of the form itself. This technique provides a rhythmic movement in decorated flat surfaces and emphasizes planes and contours in wood sculpture. ” Robert Bruce Inveratity describes the movement as “rhythmic” but trancing seems like a much better adjective.