Two eye catching pieces consume one’s eye longer than wanted. Francoise Nielly and Martina Shapiro are two artists that are known for their vibrant portraits of women. These two pieces are very different in many ways concerning the subject matter of each one. Both captured my eye from the beginning because of the color choices each artist chooses to use. This makes both pieces different yet collaborate together. Both are side portraits of middle aged women which looks as if they are in deep thought or feelings. In Neilly’s, 24x36 palette knife oil painted portrait, the colors and type of paint she chose is easily determined by the marks on the woman’s face. The color choices that were chose are vibrant and bring life to the piece. Cool colors …show more content…
Fauve Girl On Blue is an abstract painting by acrylic paints. Surrounding the painting is cyan and yellow strokes that represent her hair. The woman’s eyes are also a cyan color that brings unity from inside the piece all the way to the outer edges. Her face from the left to right vertical strokes in the order of magenta, pink, orange, red, cyan, yellow, green, light cyan and a darker cyan. Above her eyes are rounded strokes of red and cyan that form to the eye. Her lips are a bright cyan color that stand out and become the focal point of Shapiros piece. The neck line is a magenta and red colors with her shoulder leaned in toward her body with magenta and pink to represent the top of the shoulder following green to elongate the arm.
The categories of representation for Neilly and Shapiros pieces are different. Neilly piece is more representational while Shapiro uses a more abstract form to convey her portrait. Color throughout both pieces vary in warm and cool colors. Although Neillys is more warm than cool, Shapiros is more cool than warm. That shows how color choices can change the feel of different artworks. Each artist uses unity and variety in the subject matter of the piece. Neilly is an energetic artists and chose to use the edge of a knife to give the woman edgy look but Shapiro used smoother style to make things look
Wayne, transforms this painting into a three dimensional abstract piece of art. The focal point of the painting are the figures that look like letters and numbers that are in the front of the piece of art. This is where your eyes expend more time, also sometimes forgiving the background. The way the artist is trying to present this piece is showing happiness, excitement, and dreams. Happiness because he transmits with the bright colours. After probably 15 minutes on front of the painting I can feel that the artist tries to show his happiness, but in serene calm. The excitement that he presents with the letters, numbers and figures is a signal that he feels anxious about what the future is going to bring. Also in the way that the colors in the background are present he is showing that no matter how dark our day can be always will be light to
The face of the portrait is detailed, and more naturally painted than the rest of the composition. However, the left iris exceeds her eye and extends past the normal outline. The viewer can see every single brush stroke resulting in a unique approach to the capturing human emotion. The streaky texture combines with the smoothness flow of the artist’s hand creating contrast between the hair and the face. The woman’s hair is painted with thick and chunky globs of paint. The viewer can physically see the paint rising from the canvas and flowing into the movement of the waves of hair. Throughout the hair as well as the rest of the portrait Neel abandons basic painting studies and doesn’t clean her brush before applying the next color. Because of the deliberate choice to entangle the colors on the brush it creates a new muddy palate skewed throughout the canvas. Moving from the thick waves of hair, Neel abandons the thick painting style of the physical portrait and moves to a looser more abstract technique to paint the background. Despite the lack of linear perspective, Neel uses a dry brush technique for the colorful streaks in the background creating a messy illusion of a wall and a sense of space. The painting is not clean, precise, or complete; there are intentional empty spaces, allowing the canvas to pear through wide places in the portrait. Again, Neel abandons
Laird’s “Kitchen” and Dater’s “Ms. Clingfree” were two pictures I thought were similar. If you laid the two side by side, you would see nothing in them that was remotely similar. One is of a young attractive housewife sitting on the kitchen counter, cheerily showing off the fruit bowl. The other is of an older housewife, perhaps one who has been married many years and is starting to feel the stress taking its toll on her. In that sense, the pictures are of the same person (a housewife) as she goes through the years. Laird shows her when she is happily married and everything is sunny and bright. Dater shows the woman after the years have taken their toll and she is tired of it all.
Contextual Theory: This painting depicts a portrait of life during the late 1800’s. The women’s clothing and hair style represent that era. Gorgeous landscape and a leisurely moment are captured by the artist in this work of
Art could be displayed in many different forms; through photography, zines, poetry, or even a scrapbook. There are many inspirational women artists throughout history, including famous women artists such Artemisia Gentileschi and Georgia O’Keeffe. When searching for famous female artists that stood out to me, I found Frida Kahlo, and Barbara Kruger. Two very contrasting type of artists, though both extremely artistic. Both of these artists are known to be feminists, and displayed their issues through painting and photography. Frida Kahlo and Barbara Kruger’s social and historical significance will be discussed.
On portray 1 there is a distance between the man and the woman. The man doesn’t seem interested in his wife and the wife is standing there powerless. On portray 2, the woman is touching the man and the man doesn’t seem unhappy with her gesture, on contrary, he seems pleased. On portray 1 the man is looking at the food on the table, that is set for him, but is not eating or attempting to touch the food. On the other hand, on portray 2, the man is cutting the food and possible distributing to his
The silhouette is known as the Atlantic slave trade and Kara does not seem to shy from the pictures that are so to say pronographic to the viewer. Therefore, the message she wants to pass across is that slavery, racism, and sexual exploitation done on the black was real. She lets out the viewer think about the role they are playing in ignoring or supporting racism.
The two focal figures are illustrated with complementary colors, the woman 's dress being orange, and the man’s pants being blue. Benton uses these colors to bring life into the painting. The background is made up mostly of earthy colors like, greens, browns, and greys and a light blue for the sky. Benton seems to add white to every color he uses, which gives the painting an opaque look. The deepest hues found in this painting are the blue one the man’s pants and the orange on the woman’s dress, everything else around them looks washed out and Benton does this to emphasize his focal points
These texts are similar in the fact that both authors will shows points and opinions from both sides that are being compared to each other. This is shown in Barry’s text on page 221 when he is talking about sports and says “...is sports.This is an area where men tend to feel very sensitive and women tend to be extremely callous”. Barry is showing the differences between the two groups by bringing up the point that men tend to be more involved with sports while women are most likely interested in another activity. The same form is seen in Britt’s text on page 215 when she is talking about sloppy people cleaning a desk and says “ Four hours or two weeks into the excavation, the desk looks exactly the same, primarily because the sloppy person is meticulously creating new piles of papers with new headings and scrupulously stopping to read all the old book catalogs before he throws them away. A neat person would just bulldoze the desk”. When Britt says that she is stating that sloppy people is just putting the papers in new smaller categories to keep because they care about what they have while the neat person just wants results and only cares about the desk being clean. Which is close to the same layout that Barry used to show the differences in men and
Throughout history art has played a major role in society. It started out with paintings and went to photography and eventually to films. Artistic interpretation depended on whom the artist was and what he or she wanted to present to the audience. When it came to portraiture, whether it was paintings or photography, the idea of mimesis was very important. However important this may have been, the portraits were mostly products of the media and fashions during that time period. Whatever was popular during the time was used such as columns or curtains in the background. The face was the main focus in the painting and there was little focus on the body. Later on during photography the body was focused on more. Even though photography was used much later after paintings were used, it allowed the artist even more artistic interpretation because of the ability to play a different role and not having to be ones self. The artists that will be focused on are Frida Kahlo and Cindy Sherman. They lived during different periods and their artistic intentions varied because of that. They also had similarities in that they thought outside of the conventional roles. These women were both self-portraiture artists and although they were considered that their interpretations did not always make their portraits self-portraits. Traditionally the artist was an outsider, but when it came to self-portraiture they became the subject and the audience became the outsider. The similarities and differences of Frida Kahlo and Cindy Sherman’s art were tied into the strength and also vulnerability they had because of their roles as women. They wanted the audience to see a background story to the portraits and not just an image of a beautiful face.
The second painting was by George W. Bellows and named Shoghead. This painting brought a sense of ease and relaxation. I can picture myself on the top of the mountain listening to the waves crash on the sides. The open countryside topped by the clouds give the painting a sense of realism. The extremely bright blue water stands out the most, though the focal point is not clear. There is not an excessive use of paint. It is as if Bellows caked it on his brush and made quick short strokes. The use of such dark colors on the hill is a mystery. The terrain has a roughness that makes the painting come to life. The artist did a great job of showing the depth. If I had to guess, he was influenced by Picasso’s work because of the extensive use of thick point.
Feminism and political issues have always been centered on in the art world and artists like to take these ideas and stretch them beyond their true meanings. Female artists such as Hannah Höch, who thrived during the Dada movement in the 1920s in Germany and Barbara Kruger who was most successful during the 1980s to 1990s in the United States, both take these issues and present them in a way that forces the public to think about what they truly mean. Many of Kruger’s works close in on issues such as the female identity and in relation to politics she focuses on consumerism and power. Höch, like Kruger, also focuses on female identity but from the 1920s when feminism was a fairly new concept and like Kruger focuses on politics but focuses more on the issues of her time such as World War I. With the technique of photomontage, these two artists take outside images and put them together in a way that displays their true views on feminism and politics even though both are from different times and parts of the world.
In conclusion, although both of these works are contemporary installation pieces, they display notable differences. From the mediums to the colors and even the subject matter, these two artists have found a way to express the suffering that lies within everyday life within their culture in very different, but explosive ways. Even being from such great distances apart, viewers can see that similar, although different, issues exist all over the world thanks to these two brilliant women.
... though employing a familiar subject (the female form), shows the transformation from busy mosaics with gold embellishments to a brighter palate of colors and the use of stronger, bolder lines. The piece exemplifies his versatility as an artist.
This painting by Vincent Van Gogh is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum, in the Impressionism exhibit. There are many things going on in this painting that catch the viewer’s eye. The first is the piece’s vibrant colors, light blues and browns, bright greens, and more. The brush strokes that are very visible and can easily be identified as very thick some might even say bold. The furniture, the objects, and the setting are easy to identify and are proportioned to each other. There is so much to see in this piece to attempt to explain in only a few simple sentences.