Prayer House Essay

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Prayer House As a student who’s studying art, galleries, exhibition, museum are always amusing to me. I take a lot of advantages going in there, because it gives me the chance to get know more about the artworks as well as cultures. One day, in the campus, during the free time, I managed to go to the art gallery which is located in art building. I was interested by series of black and white picture of Robert Hite, especially the Prayer House. Prayer House (2006) is a photograph taken by Robert Hite who is a visual artist from Virginia. He took the picture in a swamp located in Ulster Country, New York. It is a black and white photograph of a dark natural woods background with a small bright white colored miniature house standing at the center. In the front, there is a lake reflecting the house and the sky. All shapes and lines within the piece are straight. The house has arrow shaped heading to the sky, which is a combination of a rectangular body and a triangle rooftop. Based on the rectangular shaped windows, the house may have three floors. There is also a small door which has a cross in the front. In the background is a huge space between the house and the dark winter woods. The forest trees standing seem thick and sparse with leafless branches coming out from the trunks. The wooden house has horizontal lines in the body and the stairway. In the front of the house, there are small waves in the lake making horizontal short lines. Because this is the black and white picture, there are only two basic colors, but they have many shades. The thing that affects our vision first is the brightness of the house. Naturally, the house might be made of bright yellow or white wood. The reflection has the same proportion of the house but it looks darker. The background is a combination of many shades of grey making the forest seem dark and scary.
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