FELDMAN’S CRITICAL ANALYSIS Framework Student name Mollie Burman DESCRIPTION Describe what you see without value or judgments. Identify the key features of the piece. ANALYSIS What elements and principles did the artist use, and in what way, to produce the artwork. INTERPRETATION Elaborate on what the features suggest and why the artist used these features to convey his or her ideas. JUDGEMENT Identify the meaning of the work and its value in the visual arts world. Make notes about an artwork using Feldman’s Critical Analysis Framework. Artist Feldman Title Unknown Medium Sculpture DESCRIPTION This piece of structure is comprised of multiple, simplified three dimensional buildings and a wooden structure. The central structure …show more content…
in the foreground is a white, rectangular and a vertically erected prism. It has lines spaced broadly apart around the prism. Cut out of this are three square holes with decorative triangular peaks above them. The top of the building is a pale pastel blue and white structure. In addition to this, the tiny cottage themed building in the lower background has a peaked dark grey structure on top, a green base and a decorative sphere structure on the top. This building is highly decorative with dark outlines on the white walls. The structure to the far left in the mid ground is a rectangular prism erected horizontally. The lower segment of this building is white with singular rectangular and square holes cut out into the front panel. There are light brown strips acting as the top segment of the building, which also holds a triangular peaked red-brown structure. The next building is green and light brown, rectangular and erected vertically. This building is different to the others because there are no holes in the visible panels. Instead, there are two green squares added to the front panel. There is a green, sloping panel on the top of the building which is corrugated. This element is connected the wooden structure, as the whole building hangs from it. The top most building in the whole sculpture is an oak brown and white vertically erected rectangular prism. It has a wide white base and high peaked white panel on the top. This building sits in the top right background. The last building is predominantly red. It is a rectangular, rustic and weathered, horizontally erected building. It has a green-grey-brown panel sloping down to the front of the building and a small panel for the effect of giving an indication to the entrance. All of the wood in this sculpture has natural tones. ANALYSIS This artist has incorporated many artistic visual elements and principles into this piece of sculpture. The natural wooden tones in the plinth and buildings gives a sense of realism. This effect draws on elements from nature, which gives the impression of natural and pure materials in the sculpture. In contrast to the idea of nature, the wooden structure has been made out of rectangular milled wood rather than raw, natural wood. Evidence of this is shown in the angular joins, which proves it is not real. This creates conflict in the artwork because it contrasts with idea above. However, it does create harmony throughout the work as wood is frequently used as a soft embellishment or frame to highlight the artwork or to draw meaning in comparison to steel or another austere material. The colours in the work are also important to the idea of nature. There are greens and reds throughout the work, which is significant because the two colours are opposites on the colour wheel. This emphasises the work because it creates a contrast in the artwork. The most significant building of the sculpture is the white building, as it is a focal point of the work because of its vibrant shade of white. This creates a sense of depth and exaggerated space since the sculpture is three dimensional. Space also encompasses a wide range of elements such as scale. The scale of the buildings emphasises the space taken up by the sculpture. The illusion of space is also created with scale, as it divides the artwork into background, mid-ground and foreground, which is a very significant aspect of sculpture. This is why the tiny building on the right look further away than the white building. Balance creates a sense of rhythm in the work since they are unevenly placed. This is how artistic visual elements and principles have been used in the artwork. INTERPRETATION This artwork portrays many ideas and themes to the viewers about man and nature, and how we interact and counteract each other.
The plinth is made of steel, but made to look like wood, which is cultured, not natural. Through this, the idea of man-made versus nature is conveyed, as the plinth is angular, not irregular such as natural timber. This comments on the environment as being changed and transformed into fit the needs of man. Furthermore, the structure is most likely made of steel, which is another modification to nature by processing the natural metal. This modified, re-presented nature shows the idea that we are making processed materials look natural. In other words, making copies of nature but using man-made materials. The lighting also plays an important role in the interpretation of the photograph. On the far side of the light source (highly unusual for a gallery) it is mid or drab grey and other dark colours. This creates a pessimistic, sombre and austere mood to the sculpture, possibly indicating a negative message. However, in the light source, there is the little cottage house. It is more detailed, domestic-looking, idealised and realistic compared to the other buildings. Being in the light source, it gives the little house hope in the austere presence of the other buildings, which are much bigger than it is. The bigger buildings have less detail and look more oppressing. The white building is the central focus point. It can be interpreted as a church or religious building because white represents faith, purity and innocence. The main buildings in the sculpture are austere and are positioned in a huddle, indicating a possible town or congested city. They are most likely to be functional buildings, such as offices, churches or even barns, just not houses, as they are on the outskirts of the city, so therefore on the edges of the sculpture. An example of the classic family home would be the brown building at the top right. It is
separate from the rest of the sculpture, which emphasises the space between the authority and power of the city and the families that fall under that rule. JUDGEMENT In my opinion, this artwork is truly successful. I think this because it has evoked multiple emotional reactions in me by observing and analysing this work. I feel negative and positive emotions, such as peace and tranquillity, but then moments of realisation at the messages I uncovered in the box above. This makes the artist successful in conveying the messages described above. The messages included in this artwork are comments on general society as a whole on the environment and dialogue (how we undermine nature in our urban sprawl). This also contributes to society in raising awareness about our impacts on the environment as a collective. It also contributes to society by its beauty as a piece of sculpture, which is determined by viewers appreciating that factor. Historical art forms can be interpreted from this sculpture because with the idea of towns and homes in the above box, it could draw on historical events such as the Industrial Revolution. This link can also be interlinked to the Renaissance, when art and appreciation of art was becoming fashionable and celebrated.
They might not be very prominent, but they exist the painting and serve as the base for creation. For starters, the window pane contains lines that highlight its simple design. Simplicity remains as the core of this work. Moreover, sill is roughly represented by a thick brown line underneath the window as a boundary in a quietly brilliant fashion. The work has a wonderful color allocation to express the mood. The color is limited within the muted palette color range. Grey—the intermediate color of black and white, is the dominate color for both exterior view and the interior part, as a matter of fact, the observer notices that nearly all colors are mixed instead of natural this work. The cloudy sky corresponds to the grey color of the wall, yet the brightness is not influenced. However, this consistency has successfully created a cold, grave and silent environment for a crowded place such as New York. The whole environment of this painting seems to be surrounded by the negative and depressive
Canal is heavy on the use of values. The piece of art work has heavy contrasts and deep shadows. This can be seen with the building on the right’s corridor. In the middle left he uses high light to show the sun light in the horizon. On the right bottom in the building’s outer corridor Canal uses cast shadow and core shadow. The shadows of the individuals walking are consistent in not only in direction, but in length. Canal used planes to divide the surroundings with the building and lines to divide the building to the sky. He also uses lines to create movement and direction as you can see the citizens heading toward the middle of the art work. The “View of the Molo” also gives the building a sense of texture on the surface. The building does not look flat. The windows protrude a bit. One can see depth on the window sills and the bottom corridors. Canal uses one-line perspective and the vanishing point is the building in the bottom middle. Canal’s use of color is minimal. The colors are not vibrant at the same time not dull. The art work uses colors minimally. The temperature of Canal’s art work is
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Considered by some, the oldest known written document known to man, Kish tablet is a carving in limestone found in the ancient Sumerian city of Kish in present day Iraq. The tablet is considered belonging to the ancient Sumer kingdom. Kish is located 5 kilometers to the east of the present day site of Babylon. Stephen Herbert Langdon, an Assyriologist, discovered the tablet during his excavation at the site of Kish during the period of ten years from 1923 to 1933. The writing on the tablet is pictographic. It is considered to be belonging to 3500 BC (the early Bronze age), which makes it about 5600 years old. It is likely that the writing is in Sumerian language but this fact is not yet confirmed. The tablet has not been translated to this
To of the most striking descriptions used to portray the house are those of the windows and the fissure. He describes the windows as “vacant [and] eye-like.” With this description the narrator effectively anthropomorphizes the house. Thus he almost gives the status of character to the house. The other outstanding description is that of the fissure. It is described as “a barely perceptible fissure, which [extends] from the roof of the building in front, [making] its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it [becomes] lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.” It is interesting to note that the narrator spends so much time describing a feature that he describes as barely perceptible.
B. Shape – The most obvious shape is the round sun in the upper left of the painting. The bottom of the sun is going into the horizon to represent sunset. The house is represented by a triangle front on top of a cube to give the impression of depth. An oval shape represents the figure’s face.
himself through his mediums. He used oil on canvas for his medium in this painting. There are
The aim of this paper is to explore and critically analysing two research articles. The critical analysis will explain the importance of the study, evaluate design and research method used in those articles. To identify any gaps it will provide the literature review in those researches and possibility for the new study. The project plan, for the possible research will be developed on a potential gaps and the essay will finish with the conclusion.
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...
of aesthetic towards life like other artwork does. It accomplished this by tearing the conventional
see the type of elements the artist has used and how different elements can complement each
Gehry’s additional design of the exterior has created an unconventional model form of house. The asymmetrical form characterizes the entire external side of the house. According to Goldstein, Gehry tried to slant the house roofline, create a false perspective and cause an absurd viewer’ perception or expectation (1979, 9). The complexity of the form might also produce a relationship with the house’s elements such as door, wall, and roof. For example, those elements, which linearly constructed, were hardly noticed since the distraction of geometric form around the exterior part of the house. It’s even barely hard to find the entrance of the house as a result of the salient angles of exterior.
I found a grouping of rectangles as the prominent geometry. None of the rectangles are separated from the rest. The interior space is the largest rectangle with the entryway at the bottom that aligns to the diagonal. The exterior space is the smaller rectangles that group around the main interior space. The regulating lines that I uncovered seemed to regulate the geometry and size of the building. The main regulating lines were the horizontal datum line on the very top of the massing and the diagonal line that regulated the bottom of the massing. The rectangles fit between these
Starting with visual elements I saw lines, implied depth, and texture. I see lines by him using lines created by an edge. Each line is curved not straight but it works with the piece. By using this he creates the piece to make it whole. He uses many curved lines within the painting I don’t know if there is a straight line in the whole thing. The next element I saw was implied depth. Using linear perspective you can see the mountains but they look smaller than the rest of the piece. They are the vanishing point in the back making it look as if you can walk down and they will get closer and closer to you. The last element that I saw was texture. They talk about Van Gogh’s painting, The Starry Night having texture through a two- dimensional surface, in which this painting has that similar feel. Van Gogh uses thick brush stokes on his paintings to show his feelings. There is actually a name for this called, Impasto,
In Horkheimer’s “Traditional and Critical Theory”he begins with the question “What is theory?”. He explains how theory is something that should be based on fact and should not conflict with facts. He also makes the point that experiences should line up directly with theory, and if they do not one should be re-examined. A theory is a set of propositions that are only true if they equally match with the object they represent. In this essay he makes a distinction between traditional and critical theory. He begins by making the claim that the type of theory used in natural sciences is traditional theory. Traditional theory is mainly focuses on the things that are true or things that can be agreed upon, experiences are not heavily weighted. Like natural sciences, these things are without contradiction, they are facts. Social theory on the other hand is less concerned with facts and more with reason. In this essay I will be examining the distinction between the two in the social sciences and why Horkheimer feels this distinction is important.