Art Analysis: Sonny Brown Collection

built around a square or town plaza.  The central area of the square was left

What is that strange orange brick building? Why should I care about that? That striking orange, brick building is the Guardian Building of downtown Detroit. When deciding to go to a historical site in the city, I was drawn in by the history of the place. I am relatively new to the city and when I heard about this place, I knew that’s where I wanted to go. When our group traveled together to the site, it became apparent why this building is not only important to Detroit, but to all cities. The Guardian Building was not only a great fixture of the past, but it is a leading example of the efforts to bring a city back to greatness.

The lighting of the picture is very natural and comforting. The artist painted the setting to be a bright sunny day. The execution of a person should be a sad,

Stability and balance is also achieved through the incorporation of the vertical and horizontal planes. In the southwest facade of the building the vertical slits are balanced with the horizontal planes created by the cubes, cornice and the ornamental horizontal band that runs halfway through the walls. These vertical and horizontal planes further dictate a rhythmic continuity throughout the building. Building's scale is rather modest in comparison to its site and the surrounding landscape and the smooth texture of the facade helps its integration to the environment. (Figure 4)

The picture then merges in to show a black and white long shot of a landscape. The camera pans rounds and the audience see a shot of two lines of prisoners doing hard labour, then a low angle shot shows them chained together. This could explain to the audience why none of the prisoners are trying escape. When the audience has seen the prisoners the camera goes into a wide-angle shot and shows three men running across a field and then jumping down. This can be quite comical as they are being very obvious and could easily be seen but never do.

Some very obvious techniques have been deployed in the cinematography to portray the grittiness and the true reality of the setting. The lightning in all the shots tends to be very natural. The natural lightning also allows shadows to be in the mise-en-scene, which is visual signifier of the dark nature of the slums and its characters.

BOOM! CRASH! Rumble! Crackle, pop, hiss! Thunder, and then a very bright and large lightning bolt struck close to their window, causing the two to jump and shout in shock. The power flickered, and then went out...

The right hand side depicts the United States and how it is a very industrialized nation compared to Mexico. The foreground is taken up by three separate objects which all need power leads, they are a red loudspeaker, floodlight and some machine which seems to resemble a fan. It is interesting to note that instead of roots going into the ground on the Mexican side of the border, but on the United States electrical lead penetrates the earth. The middle ground has three grey pipes leading up to barrels with holes in the top of them. The background is dominated by large building and white smoke that is coming from four chimneys with ford written on them. The sun is not visible on the United States side possibly because of

The two works of art that I have chosen to analyze are 1) Jordan Casteel. Miles and JoJo. 2014. Oil on canvas, 54” x 72” and 2) Aaron Fowler. He Was. 2015. Mixed media, 134” x 165” x 108”. The themes that these works of art represent in regards to the exhibit are love, family, and pain. However, they also fall into other thematic categories. The main theme that seems to apply to both “Miles and JoJo” and “He Was” is Human Experience. Additionally, these arts differ in some ways.

The background has areas of dark and light that may be representing a dark part of this woman's life and the light area showing awakening in this woman's soul. To me the woman in the painting is staring out into the world and realizing that there is so much out there for her. That she can walk out of there and not be lost any more. Mrs. Mallard felt the same way. In the room she realized that she can now live her life on her own the way she wants to. She walked out of the room with a sense of

From the observation tower the horizontal building’s three parallel bands can be seen that extend into the lush landscape. The architects’ concept was to immerse the museum in nature by creating a set of three bracketed pavilions under one roof surrounded by gardens. The roof can be seen as

The next shot is an establishing shot, showing the street where the main character, Leister, lives. Its fall/autumn time and the trees are bare or dying, possibly indicating and foreshadowing a death later on in the movie. Also the streets are very linear, all vertical and in uniform, as it were.

The camera then moves outside the hotel, where there are no streetlights. The only lights are coloured white, blue and red from the police cars, suggesting an element of danger in the film. The darkness and the police cars further enhance the suspense and the idea that action is about to happen. When the agents arrive, their faces are lit up. We notice that they have absolutely no

The significance of this specific building is apparent from the moment you enter its domain. The door, witch is not shaped like a door you will find in an average office building or home, is designed to be deliberately dark, narrow,

The scene is set at night time so all the light in the scene is artificial from the street lamps; the light is dim but harsh casting dark shadows and creating a chiaroscuro effect, this is iconic of film noir and crime movies and it signifies that evil