Jean-Michel Basquait, Untitled, 1983. This drawing is screen print on canvas. Lines are used spontaneously and all throughout the piece to separate segments.
The lines in this piece are actual and used as arrows and dividers of subjects. The lines could express emotions as they place emphasis. The lines do direct the eye through the work as they visually organize he aspects of the piece.
Kaws, Down Time, 2011.
"KAWBOB'S face is shown in extreme close-up, barely discernible through the disorderly tumble of rectangular forms. Falling debris camouflages his eyes, which nevertheless remain recognizable by the colorful exes painted across their pupils, while his teeth blend into the abstracted geometric forms in the paintings lower half." The painting of KAWBOB'S face is acrylic on canvas. Kaws uses geometric shape throughout the piece; from the large circles of the eyes to the rectangular shapes that are scattered across the piece. The painting features objects and other occupied space. This means that this piece has both positive and negative shapes.
Thomas Ball, Loves Memories, 1873.
The marble sculpture of a seated Cupid is freestanding and can be viewed from all sides.
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The artists used both organic and geometric shapes in the piece. Cupid's seat consists of geometrical shapes; while his figure is an organic and natural shape. The sculpture, being three-dimensional, has actual mass and volume. The mass and volume was used to convey the size; as the sculpture is small. The artist may have chose this to portray the actual size of the subject and provide an accurate visual perception through the piece. Sam Gilliam, Firefly Blacktop, 1977. The two dimensional piece not only expressed texture, but features it as well. The painting is made of oil and acrylic on canvas. The painting features vibrant colors that hide underneath a scratch textured black tone. It's almost appears as if there are two pictures. The vibrant colors are dulled by the raised black texture. The actual texture is tactile. The piece is comparable to the sun hiding behind rain clouds; with the latter prevailing. Richard Estes, Supreme Hardware, 1974. The oil and acrylic painting radiates light and undervalues it all at once. The two-dimensional painting highlights contrast and clarity. The painting of the urban scene displays the hardware store, the liquor store and other sights. It is safe to assume that by the title,Supreme Harware, the paintings focal point is the Hardware store. There are many changes in lightness and darkened mess throughout the piece. In this painting, the store fronts are vibrant in color. The rest of the image is neutral to dark in tone. The darkness of the streets and the residential properties in the urban scene against the high contrast of the store fronts provides differences in values. The artists may have used these differences in values to place emphasis on the store fronts and create a focal point for the piece. By using different values, the artists adds and subtracts focus to different parts of the piece. Al Held, Flemish, IX, 1974. The two-dimensional painting is acrylic on canvas. The piece is essentially all black with the exception of white outlined dimensional geometric shapes. The shapes overlap and challenge the viewers perception. Relative size and linear perspective are employed through the painting as some shapes are larger to appear closer and other smaller to appear further away. This atmospheric perspective of this piece creates the illusion of depth through the use of black and white colors. The techniques used in this painting create illusions of size and relative space. George L.K. Morris, Concretion, 1936. The two-dimensional painting is oil on canvas. The artist used hard-edged geometric shapes in a mass of abstract form. The colors range from dark to neutral primary colors. Although the colors are very repetitive throughout the piece; they are not predictable. The saturation of the colors are not intense and the colors are not necessarily complimentary as they are contrasted by black and white. I believe this piece expresses the emotions of the artist, George K.L. Morris, as he championed non-representational art. Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Indian Drinking, 1911. The bronze sculpture, which can be viewed from all sides, involves motion through the subjects posture. The Indian man is on bent knee, cupping his hand as if he is drawing water from a water source. This indicates motion on behalf of the subject as well as the scene. For example, the Indian man may move his hand to his mouth to drink, he may move out of his kneeling position and the water source from which he draws water may also imply motion. Although the sculpture portrays motion; the piece is static. "In other works, artists use techniques to suggest that motion os in the process of occurring rather than motion has occurred. We say that these works contain the illusion of motion". (66) The nature of the sculpture suggests that motion is in the process of occurring; as the Indian man is on bent knee cupping water from an implied source. This indicates that the sculpture conveys the illusion of motion. Morris Louis, Para III, 1959. This two-dimensional painting is acrylic on canvas. The artists uses intense and rich pigments to create this unified composition. In some places the washes overlap; in others areas they segregate and expose the bare canvas underneath. The collaboration of these washes give the piece unity as they contribute to the wholeness of the composition. Each color designs appear next each other; painted and arranged vertically. This contributes to the conceptual and visual unity of the piece. The overlapping and separation of the vibrant colors add variety to the piece. The one black vertical design on the left side of the piece and small black design on the right not only add contrast, but also provide visual interest and variety to the piece. The variety could suggest unity as the colors overlap often. The varsity could also suggest a lack of unity as the colors are visibly separated in some areas; exposing the black canvas underneath. The unity or lack of unity is susceptible to viewers interpretation of the art. I perceive this piece as having unity and lacking it as well. Plywood Slice, Mathias Bengtsson, designed 1999, made 2011. The piece is constructed from 3 mm lazor cut plywood sheets before being assembled into the 3-D form.
The horizontal layers were manipulated digitally. This is what makes the piece truly symmetrical. From certain angles the piece may appear asymmetrical. The false illusion of asymmetrically is what gives the piece so much personality. The distribution of weight, or balance, appears to be the same on all sides as the piece is truly symmetrical. The design of the piece is surprisingly modern as it was first drawn by hand; then hand modeled with clay, then manipulated digitally. The artist chose to create on a small scale as each layer was created digitally to compose a whole piece. Some pieces are smaller or wider than others. However, these layers collaboratively compose the final
piece. Shelia Pree Bright, Untitled 7, from the Suburbia Series, 2004. Shelia Beights photo series, titled Suburbia, countered the mainstream medias assumed representations of African American communities with more realistic representations of the every day life of middle class families. Her photographs portray the interior living spaces of homes in suburban Atlanta that are owned by middle class African Americans. The photograph that stood out to me was Untitled 7. The image features a front door from an interior view and a tall hat rack with many hats on it. The focal point of the image is the hat rack as everything else in the photograph is white but the dark floor and dark accent like on the wall. The hat rack and hats are dark. This is what adds focal contrast to the image. The coat rack appears to be closest to the camera; making the walls and the door appear as a background. This creates emphasis of the focal point of the photograph.
He also illustrates principles of design. If you were to place a vertical line on the picture plane the two sides would balance each other out. The painting can also be divided half horizontally by the implied divisional line above the horses head and the sword of the man who St. Dominic has brought back to life. Contour horizontal lines that give the expression that the dead man on the ground is sliding out of the picture plane, and dominate the bottom of the painting. On the top of the picture plane, behind the spectators is the brightest intermediate color, which is red orange that gives the impression of a sunrise.
...hese repeated vertical lines contrast firmly with a horizontal line that divides the canvas almost exactly in half. The background, upper portion of the canvas, seems unchanging and flat, whereas the foreground and middle ground of the painting have a lot of depth to them.
The painting has an order and there are different shapes and angles. Rectangular shape is main trend around this piece, including the wooden chest, the leg rest and the canvass. Also things overlap, creating the illusion of the shape look closer to viewer than the shape behind it. The example in this piece would be the chair on which Adelaide Labille Guiard sits be close to viewer than the girls behind it. This adds depth to the space. Also due to linear perspective girls behind the chair are smaller due to being farther away.
Sculpture is a medium that artists in ancient Greek commonly used to express spoken truths in an unspoken form. Every piece of ancient Greek sculpture has more than what the eye sees to explain the story behind the [in this case] marble.
This is an extremely high relief sculpture made of limestone. It is to be viewed from a frontal standpoint. It however does have a potential for movement. There seems to be a great deal going on in such a close space. It is very crowded, but dramatic. The figures are intertwining with each other all at once even though there are different things happening. It reminds me of a play with scenes. You can actually step in to it and feel as though you are a part of what is happening because of all the different directions each individual is facing.
Georges Seurat used the pointillism approach and the use of color to make his painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, be as lifelike as possible. Seurat worked two years on this painting, preparing it woth at least twenty drawings and forty color sketched. In these preliminary drawings he analyzed, in detail every color relationship and every aspect of pictorial space. La Grande Jatte was like an experiment that involved perspective depth, the broad landscape planes of color and light, and the way shadows were used. Everything tends to come back to the surface of the picture, to emphasize and reiterate the two dimensional plane of which it was painted on. Also important worth mentioning is the way Seurat used and created the figures in the painting.
We walked and walked looking at each art piece, which were all well displayed. Then as I looked at the back wall, a large oil canvas painting looked right back at me. I could feel its pain and so then, I decided to do my paper on this piece. The painting was The Ragpicker by Manet. (The Ragpicker. Edouard Manet.1865.Oil on canvas.) The painting was so enormous that it was hard to miss. Such a huge painting for one man, it almost looked life-like. The dimensions of this work is 76.75” x 51.25”. This scene seems to take place of a lower-class man late in his age, probably near his seventies, appears to be looking out of the corner of his eye. The ...
This piece is and is 218.4 centimeters in height and 172.7 centimeters in width. I was not able to find the medium of this artwork but I am assuming it is either acrylic or oil on canvas. The style is also abstract and features what looks like random painted figures and shapes positioned all over the canvas with patches of red, yellow-green, mustard yellow, white and beige as the background. There are a couple random objects painted on this piece that are recognizable, such as a red cup with sugar cubes next to it, but there also many unrecognizable shapes that are more open to interpretation. It is my least favorite because I do not find the overall color scheme of the painting very appealing. Personally I feel as if the colors in this piece do not go well together, especially the shade of green and yellow in the background. Compared to Basquiat’s other pieces that are richer in color, this piece falls
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9. Bouguereau, William A. Psyche et L'Amour. 1889. Private Collection. Art In the Picture. 2014. 25 Jan. 2014 .
The composition is balanced because there are people on both sides of the frame. Also, the frame is tight and does not give the characters enough room to move. They are shoulder to shoulder and there is little
A Talk About Boundless Love, and All About Love is Yayoi Kusama’s acrylic painting on canvas in 2009. This piece is different from what we usually see in her painting style. She did not use polka dots. The piece reminds me of Synthetic Cubism movement. Her style on the faces is kind of like ones in Guernica by Picasso. There are so may eyes in this painting but there are also geometric shapes like circles and triangles. This has a yellow background and the colors of subjects are black, red, blue, and light green dots. This is still her familiar color
The most emphasized part of this image is the man lying on top of the child and leaning against the bed, part of the body being directly in the center and seems to take up the most space, this is where the eye tends to linger. The negative space is made interesting by including a turned over chair, and rumpled sheets on a bed and other homely objects, which indicates that this is set in a home. The contrast that is shown in this artwork is through the use of value since Daumier used implied light, the brighter and darker areas create a contrast against each other. While this piece is not symmetrically balanced, it is balanced asymmetrically. It is asymmetrically balanced through a man and most of a bed being placed in the center, on the right is a small child, the upper torso of an older looking man, a chair next to him, and the rest of the bed; on the left of the man is most of what seems to be a woman, and other less detailed furniture. There is a sense of repetition through the positive shapes of the people lying on the floor, this is also shown through the use of line that creates the entire lithograph. This provides a sense of cohesiveness and unity throughout the
It seems to be his style of painting, thick brush strokes. It is not simple, there is much to the painting, there is emotion in the painting. It is a stunning piece made by him.
Lines are paths or marks left by moving points and they can be outlines or edges of shapes and forms. Lines have qualities which can help communicate ideas and feelings such as straight or curved, thick or thin, dark or light, and continuous or broken. Implied lines suggest motion or organize an artwork and they are not actually seen, but they are present in the way edges of shapes are lined up.