Athos Menaboni was born on October 20, 1895 in Livorno, Italy. He moved to Atlanta in 1927 where he was commissioned to work on projects with architects. In 1970 Menaboni created his painting, Champion Oakeire Honey’s Colleen, using oil paint on masonite. Emily Bourne Grigsby donated this piece to the Zukerman Museum of Art. The painting depicts an Irish Setter standing on a grassy field by a lake with clouds covering the sky. The painting is organized with the Irish Setter standing on the grass in the foreground, the lake in the middle ground, and the clouds and trees in the background. The focal point of the painting is the Irish Setter. The grass is light in color and swaying to the right like a breeze. The trees and sky reflect on the lake …show more content…
Menaboni used the undercoat method to give his work layers and add detail. Menaboni uses contrast to show that the dog is the focal point. The dog is a rich copper-red color, while everything around it is neutral. The contrast in colors makes the dog stand out from the viewer. Furthermore, it takes up most of the central space, highlighting its importance. Menaboni painted the dog with its tail extended, helping it take more space. He uses the sheen on the dog coat to draw in the viewer's eyes. The sheen guides the viewer’s eyes across the dog. If you look very closely, Menaboni uses white to outline the dog, putting more emphasis on it by separating it from the background. The title, Champion Oakeire Honey’s Colleen, provides important context for the painting. This tells us that the dog is a pedigree and prize-winning hunting dog. Oakeire is an Irish Setter kennel name used by breeders who have competed in the American Kennel Club. Champion is the title the dog earns after winning 15 points, allowing them to put Ch. in front of their name. Irish setters are gundogs bred to help hunters by pointing out birds. The scenery in the painting is a common environment to see hunting dogs
The texture of the paint is smooth and flows very nicely the paintings composition is primarily bundled into the bottom right half of the image. The wings and legs of the animals as well as and table help form an invisible sloping line across the painting.
This painting consists of regular lines as well as implied lines. Some of the regular lines that have been included are flowing, curved lines, such as the Earth that the woman is sitting on top of. Additionally, the background is made of small scenes that have been outlined by a dotted line, which places emphasis on the scenes. Besides regular and visible lines, there are a few implied lines in this painting. For instance, the woman's eyes are looking forward, so there is an implied line to the audience. Additionally, another implied line would be the woman's right arm, which is pointed towards her headpiece, while her left arm is pointed towards the earth. Nonetheless, this painting is not intense; although it does have splashes of color, this painting does not have a bright saturation. Instead, this painting is slightly dull, which makes this painting appear vintage. Additionally, since this background is a dark color, it makes the rest of painting, especially the headpiece, stand out. Besides colors and lines, even though this is a painting and there is no physical texture, there is invented texture. Upon viewing this painting, underneath the earth where the woman is sitting on, there are roots as well as grass, which give texture and feeling to the painting. In the end, this painting consists of several elements of composition, which Heffernan has done a wonderful job
I have decided to do my speech on the powerful political leader, Warrior Queen Artemisia II of Halicarnassus. Queen Artemisia ruled over Halicarnassus, now Bodrum from 377 to 353 B.C with her husband and brother, King Mausolus. It was common custom in Caria for nobility to intermarry in their family. Both were the children of Hecatomnus of Mylasa, a local satrap to the Persians, who had been ambitious and had taken control of several of the neighbouring cities and districts.
The most dominant visual elements include line, shape, and color. The artist uses lines in this picture with the brush strokes on the ruffle of the skirt and in places where two colors have met including where the ruffle meets the skirt, where the gold vest meets the dress, and where the edge of the floor meets the edge of the wall. Lines can also be seen with the necklace that is worn. Curved lines are used to indicate wrinkles in the dress while the lady is sitting in the chair and to show the ribs of the dog. Shape is seen in the facial features of the lady as the nose is a triangle and the mouth and head are both ovals. The ears of the dog are triangular in shape while the dog’s face eyes, and the area around the mouth are all circles. The body and the legs of the dog are all cylinders. The top part of the back of the chair is a quadrilateral while the spindle is a cylinder. With the way that the lady is holding her hands in the picture, a hexagonal shape is created with her lower arms, upper arms, and shoulders. Color can easily be seen as a visual element heavily used throughout this piece. Many different colors were used in this piece such as blue, red, tan, light pink, brown, white, black and gold. White, brown and tan with shades of light pink were used as the background colors on the wall while brown and tan were used on the floor. The main color of the dress is black
Childe Hassam was an American impressionist born on October 17, 1859 in Dorchester, Massachusetts right outside of Boston (Weinberg & Barker, 2004). Hassam lived until 1935 and during his lifetime he created a plethora of renowned works. One of his famous works, Bridge at Old Lyme, can be found in the Georgia Museum of Art here in Athens. This beautiful oil on canvas landscape was created in 1908. Although this piece is not very large, it caught my eye as soon as I entered that part of the gallery and I was immediately intrigued.
The color focuses on the light emanating from the right side of the painting which is the way the hunter appears to be facing. The dog and the hunter both appear to be looking towards the light, and they are taking in the natural beauty that is happening around them. The way they are both standing in one spot gives off a sense of deep reflection, or contemplation as they gaze over the glistening body of water inhabited by nature. In the background, you can see an abundance of colorful waterfowl swimming. The light reflecting off the water, it is as if the waterfowl are floating above the water. The hunter sees these ducks, but instead of shooting he is clearly just standing and observing the natural beauty. The old style shotgun the hunter is holding indicates his primary goal of his trip was to shot and kill waterfowl, but hunting appears to not be his main concern at
The artist used the colors and materials to make the painting look flawless. The gold used in the painting shines upon lights reflection. The dark green border compliments the dark green cloth used only in decorating the king’s horse.
I have chosen to write this paper on George Rodrigue’s “Watch Dog” 1984 the original blue dog painting, which are located in Lafayette Louisiana at Rodrigue Studio Lafayette. (https://georgerodrigue.com) While working forty canvases known as the (Bayou Collection), off the stories of author Chris Segura, one particular story “Slaughter Houses” witch tells of and evil dog that guards a house launched brain storm of what is now the “Watch Dog” painting. Rodrigue used the opportunity to paint the “loup-garou” a word translated from the French as “werewolf” and a story told to Rodrigue from his mother. To paint the loup-garou Rodrigue used a photograph of his late dog Tiffany a terrier-spaniel mix,
Color is a very meaningful part of almost all artworks. For this sculpture, the artist chose a particularly vibrant blue. The light blue hue used is not only a common color for balloon animals, but it also is one of the first colors we learn as children, which further ties this piece to memories of our youth. This artwork conveys simplicity in its use of only one color. This is reminiscent of the simplicity of childhood.
Other colors used in this painting include green, black and white. Several shades of green are used on the grass and bushes. The use of green adds contrast to the painting specially with the pink tones. A single shade of white is also used in this painting. It plays a role on the shadow parts of the flamingo adding dimension and depth, showing which flamingos are closer or farther within the picture plane. The use of green, black and white in the painting help the red, and different shades of pink stand out to the viewer and making the flamingos the focal point of this painting. The use of several shades and tones make the piece appear more realistic creating the illusion of depth. Each object on the painting has its own unique brush stroke, pattern and mixture of colors adding a more detailed look to the painting. When moving closer to the painting, many details become clear. One can see how organic and loose the brushstrokes are, with the use of a wide range of line weight on the different strokes. Bas started with thicker and bigger lines in the background. And in the middle ground of the picture plane Bas used more detailed and thinner lines with a horizontal movement making the flamingos look
The water color on painting is approximately 50 x 70 inches in size. The medium employed in the artwork is water color paints. Carolyn Brady used the elements of art to show how she perceives the natural beauty of this creek. Brady used contour lines throughout her painting for leafs, flowers, and trees. Brady also created a lot of organic shapes, especially flowers, throughout her painting in order to portray the natural world. The light and value created affect the composition by intriguing our focus to the middle, center of the painting. Brady used tints of light colors such as white, pink, and yellow in the center of her painting to grasp our focus to the lupins and foxgloves. As well, she used tones of dark green on the outer sides of the panting to ensure our focus would go to the center of the artwork. Brady's use of light colors in the center, main portion of her painting, gives me a serene feeling. The use of the element, time, is also an important aspect of the painting. Time is employed in the work of art by the use of bright colors and tints to reveal that it is day time
Identify: Many people that appreciate art will visit big art museums like the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. Personally, I think small town artist have more to them. In the northeastern tip of Georgia there is a small town called Rabun County. I visited the Crawford Art Gallery in Clayton, Georgia. This gallery is a small two story building full of Broderick Crawford’s artwork. His work is shown downstairs while his art studio resides upstairs. Crawford has always been a resident of these North Georgia Mountains. owns his own gallery filled with his art work. My favorite was the California Quail painted in 2015. This is a 13x18 inch painting by Broderick Crawford. He used acrylic paint to construct his work. Skilled artist. Observers
Even though, the light source is to the right side of the drawing due to the fact that Gillray uses a light grey color on top of black that is already shown on the left side of the fireplace, which makes a shadow of her foot on the ground. The artist uses a few of both warm and light colors for the woman’s wardrobe and chair that contrasts with the background. The light colors make the woman stand out even more from the background. Besides, I feel as if the artist tried to make the woman’s feet and the knife appear larger than it really is. The reason why I say this is due to the fact that normally women’s feet are little and not that big. From observing the drawing, it seems as if the cat is being compared to the elderly woman. Cats are self-centered animals that spend a lot of time pampering themselves. From looking at this drawing the women seems as if she spends a great amount of time tending to the horrible corns on her
In this artwork the the majority of the painting is painted in middle tones, however there is also a dark contrast created by the Cypresses.Cool colors are dominant throughout the artwork except for the warm yellows of the wheat field. He uses the color scheme of green, blue with green, and yellow which is the analogous color scheme. These colors that are next to each other on the color wheel and white give the artwork a color harmony with using few colors. The mountain with the light blues that seem to be pushed back way in the distance is created due to the Arial perspective. On the lower third is where the horizon is and the elements are placed to lead the eye throughout the painting and straight to the vocal place which is the Cypress trees.The
When the reader first observes the image, they make an initial judgement about the piece. They might try to decipher what the symbolism behind the sculpture could be, but eventually move on, pushing the image to the back of their mind. Later, when the reader comes across the mention of a ruminant animal on page 60, they are drawn back to the picture. Now the reader will think more deeply about the sculpture, relating it to new found information. Clark’s sculpture is made of infant caribou hide, foam, clay, pins, thread, and rubber eyes. Caribou fall into the category of a ruminant animal and the fusion of the two beings, human and animal, compel the observer to identify what unifies them. The historical self often brought up by the speaker is connected to the animal part of the sculpture because of the oppression and treatment similar to that of livestock during the time of slavery, which serves as a reminder of the past and provoke an assessment of the present. The caribou represents not only ruminant thought and dehumanization, but also the targeting of a race because this animal is commonly hunted. This can additionally relate to the historical self because hunted animals are used to supply the hunter with food and even clothing, similar to how the black slaves were used to support the white community.