The Melting City I had observed a painting in the library. This painting looked had tall buildings that were painted with vertical lines and many different colors such as yellow, green, purple, orange, blue, pink, and white. They buildings looked like they were layered in two rows. The ground below the tall buildings was painted in horizontal lines. They almost looked like they were moving so it could resemble water. Above the large buildings, looked to be a smaller city. This city looked to be made up of temples and small houses. There were splattered like dots that were seen all over the painting that may have resembled rain drops and larger once appeared to have a glow around them. I came back to this piece several times because it reminded …show more content…
Glowing object began to fall from the sky. These glowing objects were souls from the ancient city that stood before all the skyscrapers. As time stood still, people watched as these souls fell to the ground. It provided the citizens with a sense of hope. Hope that this would not be the end to their city and that better things were about to come to them. These souls spoke words of wisdom to the citizens and helped sweep the evil into the flowing river. Once the evil and sin were gone from the city, an ancient looking city fell from the light. There were buildings that resembled temples and some that were small homes built with mud and stone. These ancient buildings fell from the sky gently and took place of what had melted away from the big city. Modern was about to meet ancient and times were going to change. The clock restored a sense of time as citizens from the ancient city met with those from the modern city. The two cities would merge to be one and learn how to work together to create a better society. The modern citizens would not feel so weary from all the rain and will gain knowledge on how to become one in the city of peace. Bright colors would be restored as they learn to become one and restore
Claude-Joseph Vernet’s oil on canvas painting titled Mountain Landscape with an Approaching Storm was created in 1775, and it is currently located in the European Art Galleries (18th- 19th Century North) 2nd Floor at the Dallas Museum of Art. It is a large-scale painting with overall dimensions of 64 1/2 x 103 1/4 in. (1 m 63.83 cm x 2 m 62.26 cm) and frame dimensions of 76 1/8 x 115 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (1 m 93.36 cm x 2 m 92.74 cm x 12.07 cm). Vernet creates this piece by painting elements from nature and using organic shapes in order to create atmospheric effects, weather and different moods. This piece primarily depicts a landscape with a rocky mountainous terrain and villagers scrambling to an upcoming storm.
At the left-bottom corner of the painting, the viewer is presented with a rugged-orangish cliff and on top of it, two parallel dark green trees extending towards the sky. This section of the painting is mostly shadowed in darkness since the cliff is high, and the light is emanating from the background. A waterfall, seen originating from the far distant mountains, makes its way down into a patch of lime-green pasture, then fuses into a white lake, and finally becomes anew, a chaotic waterfall(rocks interfere its smooth passage), separating the latter cliff with a more distant cliff in the center. At the immediate bottom-center of the foreground appears a flat land which runs from the center and slowly ascends into a cliff as it travels to the right. Green bushes, rough orange rocks, and pine trees are scattered throughout this piece of land. Since this section of the painting is at a lower level as opposed to the left cliff, the light is more evidently being exposed around the edges of the land, rocks, and trees. Although the atmosphere of the landscape is a chilly one, highlights of a warm light make this scene seem to take place around the time of spring.
A old sandy color bridge is cast upon the middle of the painting, which is crumbling apart and crashing into the water. The water in this painting is dark blue and white showing the choppiness of the water. In the middle of the painting is a white statue with its head broken off, but still standing, holding a black shield leaning forward towards the center of the painting. In the background fire and gray and black smoke cover the landscape. The gray skies linger over the town with a dark depressing tone. While the river banks are roaring with fire. In the lower center of the painting is a woman dressed in white jumping to off the river bank with a warrior behind her. In the lower portion of the painting ships are on fire. Throughout the whole painting you will see thousands of people, some enemy warriors some townspeople. The enemy warriors are wearing red. While the townspeople are dressed in typical daily life clothing
The back of the painting shows brick red buildings which are billowing smoke out of the top of them. The red in the buildings could be symbolizing the
With each step, he yearned for the concrete world to dissolve. Every man who passed wore a mask of disdain, mirroring Blake’s own, while resentful eyes trailed along the cobbled pathways, searching for answers to the unanswerable. The alleyways of London, once brimming with character, forlornly watched the people who no longer had any desire to stand still. Instead, the ceaselessness of noise mirrored the ceaselessness of life and, as Blake stood, the seed which once had flourished within his being seemed to wither away, while his sprit wrestled and writhed, yearning for liberation from the concrete cell of London. The Thames flowed beneath him, almost mocking the finite world through its infinite liberation. A young boy stood nearby, gazing towards him with an eerie blankness in his eyes, and yet the two eyes, black as i...
Along the far left bank you see a single brick red chimney with a low roof as light wafts of smoke drift toward the left. In the bottom right corner, we see a bit of the bank the perspective is from and bits of grass are also leaning to the left, so one is given the picture of a nice day with at least slight breeze. Towards the center of the painting, you can see large boulders, smoothed, rising out of the river. Far into the distance, past the bank of the river, onto a higher level of the valley area, you see small gathers specks and shapes that represents a small mountain village.
I can hear the hum of taxi cabs whizzing past me as I stand on the corner of the busy downtown street. New York City! I still can't believe that I'm here or that I'm staying here. Aunt Allison was so sweet to let me live in her place whilst she travels around south America. I step out onto the road when the traffic light changed from green to red.
He then starts going into detail about the two mortal cities. The first city opens with a description of a wedding and a wedding feast. Sharing details such as the glowing torches, the choirs singing, the young men dancing with flutes and harps, and the women who rushed to the doors, were moved with wonder. Then it goes into a mass of people streaming into the marketplace where a quarrel had broken out and two men struggled over the blood-price for a kinsman just murdered. Their quarreling is settled when they call for a ...
From the piece of artwork “Rain at the Auvers”. I can see roofs of houses that are tucked into a valley, trees hiding the town, black birds, clouds upon the horizon, hills, vegetation, a dark stormy sky and rain.
Upon finding the dead man, altercations have been made in the sea through its steadiness and movement. The wind from sea has “come to be so peaceful that now it’s gone to sleep beneath the beds,” because of the handsome man’s death. A further change in nature from this magical instance was when the “sun (was) so bright that the flowers didn’t know which way to turn.” With such magical occurrences and affect on the people, the individuals eventually transform their ways and lifestyle of their homes.
This painting consists of three parts, with curving lines distinctly separating each of the parts. The foreground details a brick house with a thatch roof and a person walking along a path, the mid-ground depicts houses further away and the undulating greenery, and the background highlights the break between earth and sky with the tree line. The main objects in the Houses at Auvers are blocky houses, with a path cutting through the landscape and a person on the path. This...
Close to the mountains, subtle and blended lines communicate the peacefulness and happiness the people are living. Also, focusing on the materials of the church like the roof, chimney, and the walls shows that they are sturdy which means they could possibly have trading spots. The dispersed of clouds rolling in the sky are dark and unblended yet have a calm sense about them in which it could possibly mean that there is plentiful rain in this environment. The leaves on the trees, clouds, and cloaks or clothes of the villagers are all painted with textures directing them in the same direction of the light of the
Many people wait by the water, crying and watching the island be covered by fire and lava. The main thing you see when just taking a glance at the painting is the smoking that seems to be rolling from the fire coming from the island. The moon shines bright in the background while you see its reflection in the water with other ships. I see mounts in the background that seem to be just watching from the background. I can make out shadows form houses just below the fire about to be hit by the lava and fire from the
The implied sunlight is natural that has an illusion of coming through the clouds, the reality of the sunlight seems to dry out the land. Yet, it symbolizes the overcoming of the end of a drought on the rural crop lands. The colors of neutral tones are used predominately throughout the landscape. The brown neutral-toned houses are surrounded by wisps of yellow, overgrown, grass which seem to represent the destruction that mankind has caused, in turn, is suppressing nature and holding back the potential beauty it could unleash. The dull grass and trees lack vivid colors and present a lackluster mood. Yet, the yellow grass draws you to the horizon of the painting. This seems to resemble the hopefulness of a new crop in the dry crop land. The yellow grass shows the harsh results of a drought that has been sprinkled with blue horizontal streaks. The blue horizontal streaks demonstrate puddles of water as if it has recently rained. The blue color emits a feeling of calmness as if the uneasiness of the drought season has been lifted. The colors lack blending and create a blunt contrast appearance. The dark shadow in the bottom right corner mysteriousness and an ominous feeling of an omniscient presence. The form the artist chose to work with demonstrated an organic form with a combination of a geometric form because of the three structures at the focal point of the painting (DeWitte, et al., 2015). The artist made this choice to show the results of a drought caused by the
From far away, elevated buildings are shining and competing each other who can be the brightest. Ironically, doomed and unoccupied lands take the most of the scene, which sets up the division on this earthly land. The shimmering lights are gathering as they form a trail of lines. It looks like the civil war had also begun on this landscape. As these l...