The painting I have decided to write about is called Les Noces de Pierrette, created by the Spanish painter and sculptor, Pablo Picasso. It was created in 1905 and there are six figures included in a very dark area. I believe that this painting was created to provoke emotion and deep thinking from the viewer. Just at first glance, there is a feeling of sadness and loneliness, and it immediately makes me wonder why Picasso would choose to portray something containing so much negativity. One of the most common elements of art is color when being used in artwork because it is very expressive. The colors used in this painting are one of the first details I noticed because it is so dark and doesn’t vary a lot. There is a lot of blue, black, grey, and white, and the difference in dark and light hues gives a very dramatic contrast. But aside from that, the many different shades of blue he uses, varying from light to dark, helps to portray the gloomy mood. Not only that, but the eyes on the figures painted black. Because of this, I don’t see this painting and just think that it is pretty, I actually feel the sad emotion that he is trying …show more content…
Five of the six figures are very light, almost ghostlike, while only one is dark. Although the dark figure is different from the rest, it did not strike me as the focus of the entire painting. Since I don’t see an obvious detail that would make it easy to figure out what the painting is about, I have to look deeper into the artwork and really think about what Picasso is trying to say and express. Once I carefully examined it, I notice that all of the figures, including the dark one, are all looking in the direction of the light figure all the way to the right, and their eyes look empty, also giving off the sense that the time is lonely. While I still don’t know exactly why they are all staring at this one particular figure, I understand what the focus
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 colors used in the painting are dark and some parts bright illustrating a focal point being the skull in the center as well as the quill, both surrounded by darker colors in comparison.
The colors used in this painting are blue, white, yellow, brown, black, green, light blue. The colors Birch used seem dark in order to relate to the storm. By making it seem dark it really captures the mood of the composition. In general the quality of light in this painting is low.
When looking at the painting it gives us a glimpse of the past. It looks almost like a photograph. The fine detail from the building on the right with the statue on top. The citizens walking around.
The composition of this painting forces the eye to the woman, and specifically to her face. Although the white wedding dress is large and takes up most of the woman’s figure, the white contrasts with her face and dark hair, forcing the viewer to look more closely into the woman’s face. She smokes a cigarette and rests her chin on her hands. She does not appear to be a very young woman and her eyes are cast down and seem sad. In general, her face appears to show a sense of disillusionment with life and specifically with her own life. Although this is apparently her wedding day, she does not seem to be happy.
When you put all these aspects put together with my interpretation of what is happening in the painting, a sense of calmness and security was constructed for me. No matter what this couple may be going through at the end of the day they still lean on each other for support. The complementary colors symbolized a sensation of strength between them, the balance of the composition created a stability characteristic, and the smooth and fluid brush strokes created a tranquil energy between the
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.
...e light and shadows. The room the boy is in is very dark, and a strong beam of light shines on the boy. Space is illustrated in how Murillo places the objects in the painting. The boy appears to be far back against the wall, while a water jug is towards the front. Texture is seen on the walls, the boy’s skin, the jug, and the basket of apples. Shape is displayed by the light and shadows in the picture. Without the light, everything would blend together. The light shines and casts shadows off of the objects and boy, giving him and the objects form. The color scheme Murillo uses are dull earthly colors, adding to the dull, sad mood of the painting. I like the emotion portrayed in this work. Looking at the boy and his surroundings, you can almost feel his sadness and emotion. I like paintings that display strong expression and emotion. The painting is pictured below.
...great masterpiece was in fact “Potato eaters” he had planned it for several years and created many practice sketches and paintings trying to bring the image in his head to life. The final painting consisted of 5 figures sitting around a table in the darkness, illuminated by a lamp, eating potatoes. Even in the darkness the intense emotions on the faces of the characters are seen clearly. The vibrant color and darkness allows the viewer to notice other aspects of the work. The viewer can see the soft gentle lines forming in the window behind the figures in the darkness, the picture frame hung on the wall, the large platter of potatoes and the weathered edges of the table, these aspects aren’t always noticed but are important to the work. They create an illusion that the building is the home for the residents and gives the impression of peasant life.
...retation of the painting some aspects were surprising to how dark and heavy hearted she could speak, she took an interesting perspective. However in her interpretative poem she found a perspective of the painting that connected with her. As she used every stroke of darkness painted into the canvas an opportunity to have it symbolize this darkness and evil that resides in the world. It told her story and her experience of a starry night. Similarly Van Gogh had used every stroke of light painted into the canvas to be a symbol of beauty, and a symbol of his fascination of the night sky and its illuminating lights. He uses swift movements of his brush to depict a sky that seem to be able to sweep the mind away from the frustrations of this world in to the dreamy night light. A single painting worth a million words tells many stories through every perspective.
Hindu believes women are creator, caretaker, destroyer and a lover. Such beliefs are common in both eastern culture and western tradition that can be seen represented in different canvases of many famous artists. From renaissance Michelangelo Angelo to abstract Pablo Picasso, artists have always painted women in different circles of life explaining different paradox of emotional feelings, spiritual beliefs, and physical representations. Explaining such themes in balanced form and in limited canvases was not possible without abstract thinking and imaginative hard work. Such trend in art can be seen in artwork of different famous artists, which they created as per their thoughts and desire broadening meaning of visual arts pouring the spices of science and technology.
many other emotions that the artist is trying to display in his painting. Although we can try and
The most prominent color in this painting is blue; it is used in the walls, the doors the articles of clothing hanging on the wall hook and some of the items resting on the nightstand. The other prominent color is green, used on parts of floorboards, the window, a part of one of the doorframes, parts of the hanging paintings and the empty vase on the nightstand. Brown is the only ...
“Picasso painted from a model who sat in front of him, facing him”. Thus, you are “in the position of the artist”. The unique element of the painting is that use of cubism, which allows for the painting to carry a form of mystery behind it, as it does not simply give you the image, rather, it provides the elements of a complete composition that then the viewer must piece together. What the image truly shows us, however, is that of a naked female playing a mandolin with us as the viewer able to see the profile of her face looking down towards the strings of the mandolin, while her body faces towards the viewer, giving a good usage of twisted perspective. “The colors in this painting are shades of light brown, tan, yellow, and olive green. They all seem close to each in color, and they are all muted or dull” with “no bright color standing out. These factors make the entire surface of the painting appear unified in color.” Thus turning the piece into more of a puzzle that the viewer mush piece together rather than merely a painting one could simply
To me the painting is a way of showing you what everyone else is seeing. That the painter had the men looking right at each other so they can see themselves running away. In turn I got to see myself doing the same thing and was able to change because of it. When other people look at the painting they probably see something else. That is why I choose to do the painting, it gives you the choice too interpret it any way you see fit. Or it can just be a beautiful painting to look at, but the painting was so much more to me. It painted a thousand words for me.