William Sidney Mount and Francis Criss strategically used the elements and principles of art to create The Card Players in the time period of 1845-1850 and City Landscape in 1934, respectively, in order to accurately portray the meaning and significance behind each aspect of each piece of art. While both pieces of art are similar in many ways, there are significant differences as well. Some of the major differences include the color palette that is used and the motion and focal point emphasized and created in The Card Players. The two pieces are similar in aspects such as the rhythm that is created, the lines created, and the values that are used throughout for many purposes. One of the most noticeable differences that the viewer might see when comparing the two pieces of art is the color choices that the artists made. In The Card Players, the most prominent and most widely used color is brown. Although the same color is used throughout, there are different variations, or values, of brown to give the piece contrast. For example, the clothing that the subjects are wearing is significantly lighter in value than the walls of the building that surround them. Also, this value technique helps to show the shadows and illuminations that would be realistic in that particular setting. There is a shadow in the far right corner of the painting where minimal sunlight is being let in, or is being blocked by the subjects, while the bricks on the left side are lighter in value as if they are illuminated by the sun that is being let in. There is not as much value being illustrated in City Landscape as in The Card Players. There is a larger variety of colors being used instead of different values of the same color. Although, there are value chang... ... middle of paper ... ... point. This point is the white building in the painting. The lines all end at his point in order for the eye to follow the line down to this particular building. William Sidney Mount and Francis Criss both used several elements and principles to capture the essence of each of their oil paintings. Each artist chose specific elements and principles in order to give the piece of art the effect that they wanted the viewer to see. While each artist painted a different setting and story, some of the same aspects were used to create both pieces of art. There are also differences that set them apart and make each painting a truly unique work of art. Each specific element and principle including linear aspects, focal point, value, and motion that is used by the artist in either The Card Players or City Landscape has the purpose of guiding the viewer through the artwork.
The work that I have chosen to talk about was “The Old Stagecoach by Eastman Johnson.” This work would be considered a painting. The images that are shown in the painting are a old stagecoach as the name of the painting suggest. The stagecoach does not have any wheel and so it just sits on the ground. There are also a bunch of children that are portrayed playing inside and on top of the stagecoach. The colors that are used in this painting are all realistic, this is very important because it portrays what a warm summer day would like on a farm. There are a lot of different colors such as bright green grass and bright colors for the clothes that the children are wearing. There a quite a few principles are elements that are used in the painting. One of the first principles that I noticed was the emphasis of the stagecoach. It appears in the center of the image and is definitely the main focus of the image. The children in the image are definitely important to the painting to show how much the they enjoy the stagecoach. There is also a good use of variety in the colors used for what each child is wearing which also brings interest to the painting.
...several artistic techniques. These pieces of art are showcased in an environment where they can be enjoyed by amateurs and expert art lovers alike. All of the architects mentioned joined together not only the modern architectural techniques of their time, as well as the famous styles of the past to create Museum buildings that became their own pieces of art.
The major structures in the painting consist of an umber colored cross and three ladders. Starting from the top of the image, there is an old man with a scraggly, white beard holding onto and leaning over the top beam of the cross. He is set off by color, wearing a bright red gown and azure head wrap. The majority of his body rests atop the cross while he stands on the ladder that is leaning on the back of the cross.
... study for the overall concept they appear rather as abstract patterns. The shadows of the figures were very carefully modeled. The light- dark contrasts of the shadows make them seem actually real. The spatial quality is only established through the relations between the sizes of the objects. The painting is not based on a geometrical, box like space. The perspective centre is on the right, despite the fact that the composition is laid in rows parallel to the picture frame. At the same time a paradoxical foreshortening from right to left is evident. The girl fishing with the orange dress and her mother are on the same level, that is, actually at equal distance. In its spatial contruction, the painting is also a successful construction, the groups of people sitting in the shade, and who should really be seen from above, are all shown directly from the side. The ideal eye level would actually be on different horizontal lines; first at head height of the standing figures, then of those seated. Seurats methods of combing observations which he collected over two years, corresponds, in its self invented techniques, to a modern lifelike painting rather than an academic history painting.
An artwork will consist of different elements that artists bring together to create different forms of art from paintings, sculptures, movies and more. These elements make up what a viewer sees and to help them understand. In the painting Twilight in the Wilderness created by Frederic Edwin Church in 1860 on page 106, a landscape depicting a sun setting behind rows of mountains is seen. In this painting, Church used specific elements to draw the viewer’s attention directly to the middle of the painting that consisted of the sun. Church primarily uses contrast to attract attention, but it is the different aspects of contrast that he uses that makes the painting come together. In Twilight in the Wilderness, Church uses color, rhythm, and focal
Though most works of art have some underlying, deeper meaning attached to them, our first impression of their significance comes through our initial visual interpretation. When we first view a painting or a statue or other piece of art, we notice first the visual details – its size, its medium, its color, and its condition, for example – before we begin to ponder its greater significance. Indeed, these visual clues are just as important as any other interpretation or meaning of a work, for they allow us to understand just what that deeper meaning is. The expression on a statue’s face tells us the emotion and message that the artist is trying to convey. Its color, too, can provide clues: darker or lighter colors can play a role in how we judge a piece of art. The type of lines used in a piece can send different messages. A sculpture, for example, may have been carved with hard, rough lines or it may have been carved with smoother, more flowing lines that portray a kind of gentleness.
This is his focus of the painting. The focus can be defined as the main point of a painting, the area
The most important element is color because it shows the families race and it represents their moods. The author contrasted color and value by adding vivid colors to the most important items and value to depict the mood .Other elements that are included are form- to show the dominos, line- to show emphasis on the objects but he has also used shapes to show how the room is decorated. Space is also depicted to show the setting and the room. In the artwork lines are not the dominant elements but they play a role to show the shapes. The mark making tools were used to depict a particular look of the family. Texture has been used to show the realistic objects so they are actual textures. Light is used to show the mood of the illustration which looks bored and gloomy. The three most important design choices Horace Pippin made while creating this artwork were form, space and
Comparing these two paintings mentioned, one would first notice that the paintings belong to different art periods, namely Rococo and Neoclassicism. Labeling and categorizing things usually end up being disadvantageous, and considering these two paintings independent from each other would be a severe misconception caused by labeling. “Neoclassicism” is the term that describes works of art that draws inspiration from the classical art: Ancient Greek and Roman art , yet by comparing these paintings, it will become clear that neoclassical paintings’ distinctive quality is not being influenced by classical art, but having a moral message. The term of “Neoclassicism” was not the best choice for describing this genre of paintings. We will also see the roots of nostalgic paintings, romantic art and neoclassical art in Rococo period.
They might not be very prominent, but they exist the painting and serve as the base for creation. For starters, the window pane contains lines that highlight its simple design. Simplicity remains as the core of this work. Moreover, sill is roughly represented by a thick brown line underneath the window as a boundary in a quietly brilliant fashion. The work has a wonderful color allocation to express the mood. The color is limited within the muted palette color range. Grey—the intermediate color of black and white, is the dominate color for both exterior view and the interior part, as a matter of fact, the observer notices that nearly all colors are mixed instead of natural this work. The cloudy sky corresponds to the grey color of the wall, yet the brightness is not influenced. However, this consistency has successfully created a cold, grave and silent environment for a crowded place such as New York. The whole environment of this painting seems to be surrounded by the negative and depressive
For example, he uses texture, color and organic forms to make the landscape look as real as possible. Most of the shapes are formed by shifts in colors and line because the canvas are two-dimensional. The viewer can observe that the painting is dominated by greys, browns, ochers, and other natural colors such as green and yellow to give the scene a more nature-like look. All the components and objects painted in this piece appear to have the same texture and color as the ones found in real life, such as rocks suggesting a rough hard texture and clouds being soft, which probably means that Vernet took in consideration real landscapes and places he might have seen in real life. While using different shades of grey, and painting dark clouds, Vernet was able to convince that a storm was approaching but he also decided to add source of light coming from the upper left corner by using a golden yellow color to create a sense of warmth, which creates a nice contrast between the light and the coldness from the overall shadows that seem to dominate the artwork, creating variety; however, the repetition of colors such as greys gave the whole piece a sense of unity and they also express the shadows of a stormy day. We
All three have their own technique and style. Nicolas Poussin was one of the leading practitioners of the classical landscape and painted “rigorously ordered and highly idealized Classical landscapes with figures” (Cothren). Jean-Baptiste-Camille Carrot “landscape paintings take more a romantic and less political approach to depicting rural life” (Cothren). Paul Cezanne “created highly structured paintings through a methodical application of color that merged drawings and modeling into a single process” (Cothren). “Corrot built his landscapes on solid geometric forms. His light-drenched palette of colors, his choice of scenes with luminous atmospheres, and his signature brushwork at first bold and solid then maturing into a feathery, light touch, were all seen as new and innovative and not always immediately grasped.” (Larson)With the Nicolas Poussin paintings, they are clear and crisp and you can understand what is happening and the details are clear to what you are looking at. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Carrot paintings have more of a muted color about them with green, blues and browns. Paul Cezanne paintings tend to lean to more of an abstract look. These artist painting all in oil on canvas start with Baroque, Realism, and Post Impressionism. Nicolas Poussin studied art in studios in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Carrot travels
Both paintings are examples of the Baroque style. The paintings are characterized by strong colors, strong contrasts of light and the illusion of deep space, which is obtained by applying radical promising solutions.
...hese repeated vertical lines contrast firmly with a horizontal line that divides the canvas almost exactly in half. The background, upper portion of the canvas, seems unchanging and flat, whereas the foreground and middle ground of the painting have a lot of depth to them.
The key elements and principles of this first piece is lines and contrast. The lines created throughout the painting are placed everywhere from