Essay Comparing The Kneeling Woman And Two Women

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Spending time looking at art is a way of trying to get into an artists’ mind and understand what he is trying to tell you through his work. The feeling is rewarding in two distinctive ways; one notices the differences in the style of painting and the common features that dominate the art world. When comparing the two paintings, The Kneeling Woman by Fernand Leger and Two Women on a Wharf by Willem de Kooning, one can see the similarities and differences in the subjects of the paintings, the use of colors, and the layout The first and most obvious similarity is both paintings are about women. Although the subjects in both works of art are women, the Two Women on a Wharf painting appear to have heavy hearts and look to be consoling each other, …show more content…

Also, since it’s hard for the viewer to see any emotion the women are feeling in either painting by looking at their faces, the two painters appear to have used colors to create the tone. The feeling of gloom that surrounds the two women on a wharf with the color suggests that they have not found what they have been looking for so their sorrow will last a little longer. The kneeling woman has a brighter background probably depicting that she has found solace or love where she currently kneels. Between the two paintings, the kneeling woman seems to have a brighter looking future ahead of her. The layout of the two paintings is quite different. The layout in the Kneeling Woman for instance, is that of straight apparent lines and shapes while the lines in the Two Women on a Wharf are faded out by the artist and creates more of a chaos tone. This is perhaps why the two artists decided to name their paintings the way they did as a clue to what the viewer is looking at. The Two Women on a Wharf comes out as a painting done on the spur of the moment whereas the Kneeling Woman appears to have been a carefully thought out painting that necessitated prior

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