My art piece “Discovery” conveys my inner being and my ambitions by the presence of color. This piece is a self-portrait in order to create a more direct approach of visually portraying my curiosity and I. Although on the outside I appear mundane, on the inside I am a very curious person and ambitious to experiment with art mediums, techniques, and colors. I intentionally used complementary colors to convey the contrasting thoughts that I have while showcasing my love for color. These colors visually portray my conscience of what I should and should not do, whether it involves school, art, or social matters. On the outside I am perceived as an introvert and an outsider, which is why I have myself in an expressionless state, contradictory of how I feel on the inside. Unlike the background, most of my portrait is exposed to the wood board which reflects a mundane presentation of myself. This specifically expresses the personality that everyone sees and knows, but does not understand. The part of the portrait that is painted presents my internal …show more content…
To me colors portray numerous aspects of this world that can visually present topics and feelings that are hard to interpret into words. I feel are best represented in color a language well known all over the world, in cultures and civilizations. Whenever I need to express something I struggle to find the right words for others to truly comprehend how I feel, but art is a language that I can speak. A language, in fact, I am able to use in any way in my life especially in art. If I see the color blue mixed with a twinge of purple my interpretation of those colors is that the person feels sad, lonely, and a bit excited about something. Now if the color is a red violet and maroon then I interpret the person as being very angry and irritated. Through art I am able to better comprehend my surroundings and portray my
I agree with this statement because color is important and the color makes the picture brighter. When you color with different colors you can see the different lines of the paint that you couldn’t see before or that was hard to see without the paint. Some of the sculptures already have color in them when the artist is done making them. Like in the picture there is some white and black in the sculpture. But if the artist would but some color to the face it would show the lips, eyes, and nose a lot better. Also the color in the sculpture will make it stand out and I like to use color when I am coloring or when I am painting something because it brightens up my mood and it makes it look prettier I think. Some people just like the color black and white because they like the natural. They might also like it because it will look better on that one
She indicated that the colors represent her contrasting feelings- anxious and calm- and how they sometimes exist at the same time. She noted that the image was a representation of her mind: her new experiences were bringing her anxiety to the forefront, and she felt trapped in her own mind, but there were also times that she felt calm and at peace with how things were going. The image had another meaning to her as well, as she stated that she gets shy and insecure and puts up defenses when meeting new people. She titled this image, “Mind
People can have many different opinions depending on a topic, but what is truly difficult is getting a complete level of understanding from every opinion, or understanding the point of view of each opinion. Even accepting the points of view can be difficult for some people, who believe that their opinions are right. Luckily, people can learn about the other person’s frame of reference, and at the very least understand the topic or the person a little better. This particular topic is art, which is known for its multiple possible perceptions or its many different messages that it can send a person or group of people. In this way, people can learn more about the thought processes and feelings of others. Unfortunately, with differing opinions,
The colors that the artist uses can be quite different as each color conveys a separate impression. The light brown that he used on the face can convey sadness. The painting is created with mainly curves and lines which can mean that the man had strong physical features or that his different emotions were felt passionately as lines are usually seen as strong technical elements. The only curves that are being used are for his features. The eyes look quite down or depressive. This is because the man is sad, which goes back to the main mood which is maybe suffering.
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.
If one came close to the figure’s stomach where there’s the seafoam green, one can see the strong mark makings of the paint brushes and knife strokes, making the paint come out of the canvas. Similarly, Brown also uses big paint strokes of different colors to direct viewer’s eyes around the artwork. For instance, on the left side of the figure, there is a big vertical downward motion of a brush stroke in maroon, that connects to a green streak that goes up and encompasses the figure’s head and then downward to the body of the figure, which outlines and pushes the figure to stand out. And to make our eyes go back to the figure, Brown paints a blue triangle on the chest, making it a focal point due to it’s dark color that stands out of the light colors. And if someone stood facing the side of the painting, one can see the thick globs of paint that would make the viewer take a double glance to see if it was either a painting or a sculpture, which reinforces the idea that the painting is coming alive and making one feel
His analysis of color associated blue with the masculine, yellow with the feminine, and red with the physical often violent. He took a cubist approach, in the display and creation of the animals that he depicted in his works; simplicity was often seen as a means to his creative process as well, as most pieces simply focused on the animal, and the raw emotion, as opposed to drawing in from external factors, to create the printed art works during his
My mind is constantly taking in situations frame by frame, whether its zooming in on a minute detail, or soaking in the grander view. I always bring things down to a picturesque perspective. I’m not expressing myself, in terms, the world is expressing itself through me.
As I read Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock by Wallace Stevens I noticed that the author uses color for symbolism. The definition of symbolism according to Yourdictionary.com is the practice of giving special meaning to objects,
Why are colours important when trying to symbolize what is taking place in the mind of the setting and the characters of literature? Tennessee Williams have once said “ Symbols are nothing but the natural of drama the purest languages of play.” Tennessee William has exactly used symbolism and colour quite effectively in his play A Streetcar Named Desire. An impressive story about fading southern belle Blanche Dubois and her failure into insanity. A Streetcar Named Desire consists many symbolism and knowledgeable use of colour. This helps the audience to connect scenes and events to the themes and issues that Williams presents within the play, just as desire and death, and the conflict between the past and present of America. The significance of colours is a central theme in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire; the author uses colours to reflect states of mind, make further commentary on particular characters, and what sorts of things specific colours represent.
According to Elizabeth Walling (January 8, 2011), colors can be used to influence emotions and the feelings around us. That’s why something so simple like the color of a room affects people in several ways including the way they feel. The color red may trigger passionate feelings of anger of exposed to the color in a long period of time. The color green may calms others as it reminds them of nature. In conclusion, Elizabeth Walling says that it impacts our lives whether if it's a negative or a positive result.
In the painting the skin tones of the people who are dead is drastically lighter than those of the people who are alive. It also uses color to show the darkness of the clouds which means that there was a storm and it uses lighter colors for the sky which means that the storm has passed. The painting uses color to draw your eye to the people waving their colorful clothes around. This in return draws your eye to the spec of color on the horizon which represents a ship. On the other hand, it also draws your eye to the man who is holding a little boy toward the back of the ship with the color of what appears to be a scarf on his head. In all this shows that color is used to help give the feeling of chaos and disaster in the
Artists who produced this type of artwork were called fauves, French for “wild beast” because they were described to use intense colors, uncontrollably. Fauve’s art is different in each of their own exclusive ways, but they all have the same origin, different feelings but same structure. They all used different mediums as well; for example, like I said, they used art to express music, literature, and an emotional vision of the world from their perspective. Artists like Henri Matisse and André Derain with many more artists’ art were bright, colorful, exciting, attractive, and vividly expressed within their hands. They used communicative colors like red to show pain and hurt or blood or even the items within the painting that describe the mood.
Now that we have established color as a storytelling tool, we can begin to talk about color for aesthetic reasons. The following information on color palettes comes from the article How To Use Color In Film: 50+ Examples of Movie Color Palettes by Mary Risk. Color palettes are the major colors used in a film. There are five main color palettes; monochromatic, complementary, analogous, triadic, and discordant. Also, although these color palettes are used mainly for aesthetic purposes, that does not mean that there are no psychological elements.
"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.