Art Analysis Of Georgia O 'Keeffe's Radiator Building At Night'

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Artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe use the visual elements of art such as line, shape, and color to help create the variety of styles and shapes in an artwork. Georgia O’Keeffe’s, Radiator Building at Night, gives a great example of how the visual elements of art play a huge role in her painting. Radiator Building at Night is an example of iconography in which just by looking at the painting one can quickly interpret that the painting resembles a city at night such as New York City. It resembles a city because of its unique and bright lights and the way the buildings are right next to each other as if they were crowded as it is in New York City. The building that stands out the most would be the very tall one located in the middle of the painting. The windows give off a bright white rectangular color making it the focal point of the painting. These bright colors emphasize how tall the building is compared to its neighboring ones. Overall the colors used to make this artwork consist mainly of dark colors such as black to represent the time of day, in this case nighttime. There are parts where the light hits the walls of the building making the value of black go from dark to light. Adding this value from dark to light …show more content…

The colors in the background make the building stand out making it the first thing someone would see. The bright lights catches the attention of the viewer. The dark colors and the bright lights gives a mood of the city life. All the buildings are so close and packed together, yet they are not as bright as the one in the middle which grabs the attention from anything else. The implied lines and shapes of the building help make the artwork look very realistic as if one were looking at the painting from a vantage point. The bright white windows seem so real as if the canvas was actually using electricity to light them up. Everything about the canvas bleeds the city

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