Description Faith Ringgold’s art displays a nighttime scene of a group of African American adults and children. In the middle of this piece, there is four adults sitting at a square table. They are each sitting in different types of chairs. There is two women and two men at this table. Off to the back right of this table is another table with a blue table cloth. It appears that food and drinks are housed on top of this table with a basket of food underneath. Next to the table is also a pallet with two young African American children laying on their backs side by side. The bigger one is a girl, and the smaller one is a boy. The girl is wearing a white dress with pink/red details. The boy is wearing light blue and yellow pajamas. His socks are
The dominant line in this piece of art would have to be a straight line. To be precise, the vertical straight line is a vivid piece to this art. Within the art, you can also see shapes such as squares and rectangles. These four sided shapes are found in many different aspects of the artwork. For example, the buildings in the background are rectangles, and the border is full of rectangles and squares. The form of this art is clearly 2D, considering it is on canvas. Although, Ringgold did an amazing job at portraying a sense of 3D degression. The texture of this art is considered to be rough and clothlike. This is due to the fact that “Ringgold’s vehicle is the story quilt” within this work of art. (Spector, Nancy.) The space of this art could be described as busy. There is something new in each square of the quilt. There is also a large value change if you compare the inner middle of the artwork to the surrounding edges of it. The core of this piece of art is dark while the outside is light. The type of balance would be considered asymmetrical. There is also not a distinct pattern in this piece. Another detail to this artwork is that everything is in proportion. The only rhythm and movement found is the young girl in the sky looks as if she is flying. A strong contrast found is, again, the bright floral border compared to the dark picture inside. The pieces of this piece are bold and do not work together because they highly
My favorite thing about this piece is the depiction of the New York skyline during a starry night. This is because I am in love with the city at night time. It makes me feel warm. My least favorite thing is the floral border. At first glance, it looks dumb and out of place. I did not understand the purpose of this border until further research was done on the piece of art. I do not think the artist was successful at achieving her goal. I think this because at first I didn't even notice the young girl flying above the bridge. Once I noticed her, I could not tell she was the same girl laying on the rooftop. This made the wild background not make much sense to me. If I were to do something differently about this piece, I would make the flying girl bigger, or put her into more of the focus. Also, I would do something special to show that they are the same girl. Maybe a unique outfit or something would do the job. During the time this artwork was created, Ringgold played a role in the organization of protests and actions against museums that did not show the work of women and people of color. She usually used “overly political paintings” to present her anger (Spector, Nancy). Within this work, she used a story quilt. Everyone loved it! She turned down her angry theme to show this light hearted example of a “spirited heroine”(Spector, Nancy). Women in this time period’s society loved to see a young colored girl
The black background contrast with the predominate colors of blue and red gives these colors intensity. The red and green are complementary colors that give the painting visual appeal. The green juxtapose above the blue and red gives the artwork color balance as well as implies a triangular shape. The triangular shape and pattern is repeated throughout the painting by; the bend of the flute player's elbow, the head and shoulders of the guitar player, the head and shoulders of the lady whose back is to the viewer, the body of the guitars and the location of the three right-most musicians
Quilt making in the African American community has a long history dating back to the 18th century and has been important for ways of communicating social and political conditions. During the time when African Americans were enslaved, quilting became a popular way of communicating safety to African Americans escaping their way to freedom, up north. The tradition of Quilting was past down form generation to generation, by mother’s to daughter’s as a way of teaching the daughter about the past and giving them a valuable skill that could add to their lives. In the series Bitter Nest by Faith Ringgold, Ringgold’s communicates her life experiences with her daughters though using the art of story telling, traditional African materials, the art of quilting, and elements of art to make a unique story-quilt that appeals to African Americans of all ages.
The painting is organized simply. The background of the painting is painted in an Impressionist style. The blurring of edges, however, starkly contrasts with the sharp and hard contours of the figure in the foreground. The female figure is very sharp and clear compared to the background. The background paint is thick compared to the thin lines used to paint the figures in the foreground. The thick paint adds to the reduction of detail for the background. The colors used to paint the foreground figures are vibrant, as opposed to the whitened colors of the Impressionist background. The painting is mostly comprised of cool colors but there is a range of dark and light colors. The light colors are predominantly in the background and the darker colors are in the foreground. The vivid color of the robe contrasts with the muted colors of the background, resulting in an emphasis of the robe color. This emphasis leads the viewer's gaze to the focal part of the painting: the figures in the foreground. The female and baby in the foreground take up most of the canvas. The background was not painted as the artist saw it, but rather the impression t...
...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.
Faith Ringgold was born in Harlem on October 8th 1930, the great depression had just ended and although she lived in the north, racism was still going on all throughout the country. As a young child, Ringgold was often bed ridden because of harsh asthma and during this time she often would draw. In 1950 she got her own studio and started working on oil painting projects. By 1962 she had gotten her MA in Art at the City College of New York, had two daughters and had been divorced and remarried. Ringgold was greatly influenced by a family who loved storytelling and learned from her mother’s stories about the ancestry of the slaves. Ringgold was both an artist as well as a teacher of art within the New York City public schools and a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Throughout her lifetime and time of her paintings, the civil rights movement was in full force.
The mixed reaction I have towards the painting is because, first off, I still wouldn’t know what is really behind it or what it’s trying to tell us without looking at it from a distance. When I looked at it from a computer desktop I could see a shoe, a mountai...
“Dance is movement aware of itself. Dance is purposeful movement that employs artful communication to express ideas and feelings, meaning that aesthetic intention is present” (Cornett, 2014, p 394). Art could be anywhere and anything it just needs to have creativity in order to make it unique and beautiful. One simple art form, could speak for a thousand words and convey many significant messages such as the art form of dance. Baile Folklorico is a great example of communicating in a unique and a stunning art form. Baile Folklorico is a folk dance that elaborates different dances, music and costumes to represent a Latin or Mexican culture.
Visceral. Raw. Controversial. Powerful. The works which Kara Walker creates have elicited strong and diametric responses from members of the art community. She manipulates the style of antebellum era silhouettes, intended to create simple, idealistic images, and instead creates commentaries on race, gender, and power within the specific history of the United States. She has also been accused of reconfirming the negative stereotypes of black people, especially black women, that the viewer and that the white, male dominated art world may hold. This perspective implies that both her subjects and her artworks are passive when confronted with their viewers. Personally, I believe that more than anything, Walker’s work deals in power -- specifically, the slim examples of power black individuals have over their
The right side is almost purely white, with blue and gray shadows; the rest of the body is black, dark brown, and navy. The profile of a white woman obscures the left half of the black face, facing to the right of the piece; her hair is in a large braid and she wears a simple pearl earring. The black woman has long, flowing, bright blue hair, as well as full red lips. The black woman’s body has a rose over it, and the white woman is wearing what looks like a straw bikini; the figure is wrapped in a thick rope from the waist down. The stark contrast between the white and black meet with a definitive line; there is no blending between the two colors, which amplifies the feelings of separation and difference between the two halves of the woman’s
The size of the painting is 34 3/8 x 45 3/4 in. (86.5 x 115 cm). The height in proportion to the width shows that the painting is not proportional but it is not far off from forming a perfect square. The frame does not cut-off any of the people in the painting. The composition is centered and zoomed in to show what is going on. The composition is not simple but it is not complex either. The composition is not geometrically ordered. The people seem to be free and in motion. There is asymmetry throughout the painting. In the organization of the painting the objects appear to be crowded. There is not a lot of space between the people who appear to be fighting. The shapes of the people show that the mermaids are fighting a big guy and the placement of them shows unbalance. There are a couple objects presents. A total of three mermaids are presents including a triton and some objects are in the background represented by shadows. The sizes of the objects in the center of the composition are big compared to the ones in the background. A lot of emphasis is present in the center of the painting. The forms of the mermaids and triton are volumetric and a nice scenery is present in the background. The mermaids and trition are formed by contoured lines. Some of the lines are sharp and defined to show the natural curves on the human body and there is blurred out lines in the water to show waves and movements. The lines help give the painting a realistic feel to it. The lines are active in the reflection of the water. The color pallet present in the painting is soft with neutral warm colors. Only a couple different colors were used and the red color on the mermaid stands out the most. The neutral skin color is dominant because it is the color mo...
The image, which is composed almost exclusively of rectangular swatches of broken colour, manages to effectively capture the rounded silhouettes of the rolling hills and the cows’ bodies in spite of its geometric basis. The rectangular brushstrokes, which appear to be thickly applied with a palette knife, convey structure and stability, while the organic forms of what the brushstrokes create, such as the cows and the hills, convey a sense of spontaneity and add visual
1. and has recently been sold at an auction in November for $44,405,000 million, which was three times the previous world record for any female artist. This is a very beautiful painting of a flower that is fully blossomed. Its got white, green, and blue in it. The flower is the center and focus point of this piece of work. The painting looks like a viewpoint from the top of the flower looking down at it. It looks to have four green leafs on each side of the flower. It looks like the sky is in the background with clouds. It’s a very simply and peaceful painting of a gorgeous flower. I like the green in the middle of the flower, how the pedals are green kind of go out the side of the pedals, and forms a spiral. The leafs got a nice dark green to them and detail with them. The leafs look so real are absolutely
The artwork created by Madeline Bryan is a narrative about flowers. Each art piece consists of one flower, full of colors. Although each picture comprises of one flower and tells a narrative, individually the pictures represent a different balance type. For example, the yellow flower with out the stem, you can tell the artist is using radial symmetry; that is because you are viewing the flower from up above.
I absolutely love this piece of art. The amount of color keeps the painting alive and interesting. Its abstractness draws me in and interests me to look at it to find what I may see. One challenging thing about this piece of work is that I am not exactly sure what is going on in
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