Art: Painting Analysis

The viewer’s eyes are meant to stay on the picture, but we surge upwards towards the blue sky. When I look at the painting I travel into the man eyes. It raises questions like what he has been through or what stands in front of him.

4. Space- Perspective is demonstrated in many ways. This artwork takes up almost the whole canvas. The horses on the edge look like they were maybe even squeezed in. All of the characters in this artwork look to be congregated to the middle of the painting, besides the villages in the distance. Linear perspective is used in the placement of the villages in the background and in all the men and horses, which are grouped in the middle of the screen. Looking at the features in the painting I notice the use of overlapping and vertical placement, which both imply depth. The horses overlap each other as well as the gentlemen and other elements of the painting. The brown horse’s head overlaps the black one hiding its mouth. The villages and hills in the background appear to be very far away (diminishing size); they look smaller and distant from the rest of the main aspects of the painting.

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.

Upon glancing at various beautiful paintings there is to offer at the Museum of Fine Arts, only one astonishing artwork caught my immediate attention. The artwork is named “The Windmill on the Onbekende Gracht, Amsterdam” and it was painted by Claude Monet of the impressionist period in 1879. The medium is oil which is used for the oil painting on a canvas. Besides the subject matter, the content of the overall painting represents a serene and beautiful setting in which one can take ease and enjoy. It is a breathtaking view that captures a fleeting moment of a town setting by the riverside. Furthermore, the title also signifies the importance of the central object, which is the windmill.

The Gathering is an acrylic painting of a woodpile in Peterborough, NH. The image represents the gathering of ideas and people that led the painting’s success. The first visual element that comes to mind when I look at this painting is the direction. The painting’s direction is vertical because it gives the illusion that the viewer is looking towards the top of a hill to a woodpile. The woodpile is considered the “figure” in which is detached and focused on while the surround hill is the “ground”.

Another main focal point in this canvas was subject matter. This is where the objects or events are described. The artist gives us different objects such as the old couple seems displayed as depressing. Or you can observe it as normal couple, walking across the river, enjoying the night. He also gives us a boat which could possibly be giving us a correlation because the boat looks like it’s broken or about to sink. There is also another interpretation with the object that Van Gogh displays which is, the stars. Depending upon which way you want to take it, they look like flowers or fireworks. Also, there is a sense of false appearance with the houses. If you stare at just the bank you will notice that it is just a bunch of bright lights but if you pay attention to the water close to the bank, you will acknowledge the darkness or shadow of the houses.

Shepard Fairey’s piece titled Pay Up or Shut Up is a representation of the role that money or your role in society dictate the power of your speech. This piece of art by Fairey was released in May of 2015. It is a screen print on cream speckletone paper.

Art is created and enjoyed by various individuals across the world for different reasons. An Artwork expands and extends our shared visual language and helps in developing new ways of seeing familiar things (Tomaž 29-32). It also assists in interpreting events and new situations through different perspectives. The values and focus of artwork in the new world are finding their footing and taking completely new directions. In the new world, there are echoes of artistic movement and postmodern tradition that is mainly considering originality over a technicality when it comes to artwork (Sooful 2). Today, especially with improved technology, artists have designed new artistic skills that facilitate them to develop an artwork that is highly skillful and unique at the same time. The field of artistic has greatly expounded and has accommodated individuals with varying skills that have significantly improved the artwork (Sooful 5). Here are the top 3

In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, One Art, it displays the acceptance Bishop has for losing things. Each stanza the losses get more significant, until she finally displays the one thing she can’t accept losing. Elizabeth Bishop uses techniques such as verse form and repetition to display her feelings toward those losses.

Whether it comes to drawing a picture, or playing an instrument, art and music have always been an influence in my life. While growing up, painting and drawing seemed so fascinating. Eventually, in fourth grade my interest in music also flourished, so I began to play an instrument. In fact, my peers and family constantly express how talented I am in these areas. Undoubtedly, art and music are my favorite interests because of my background in them.

This image has mainly all 2-D form, however the mountains or trees that are in the bottom right almost look 3-D. There are a variety of lines including vertical lines that make up the church or tall building down in the village. Another type of lines in the image are horizontal, these lines create a lot of the houses or buildings in the village. The tall brown tree or object in the front of the artwork is created with vertical and curved lines. There are also repeated curved lines in the sky, which creates movement and visual repetition. There are also curved lines that make the moon, the mountains or hills behind the village, and the dark area on the far right in the middle of the piece. The sky also has big spiral lines. There are also a

The painting’s composition features a blue female figure, as the focal point, in front of a field of wheat stalks under a dark sky. To begin with, the figure portrays Alicia when she stayed in the Polish village Wujciechovka and found work in different fields. During that time, Alicia dressed “with [her] hair braided and bandanna” to look like “a typical peasant girl, Polish or Ukrainian,” to prevent being identified as a Jew (Appleman-Jurman 139). The bandanna on the figure is painted red, the primary color of the Soviet Union’s flag, revealing Alicia’s desire for Russian liberation of the village she hid in. Furthermore, during the day, Alicia’s mother would hide in the wheat field, like the one depicted in the background, because she was too weak to work. She would “part the tall and delicate stalks gently before passing through,” concealing her presence (Appleman-Jurman 138). Her success in hiding is reflected in the painting because the hill does not look like there are humans on it. Despite the danger that Alicia and her mother

Simone Martini, St. Catherine of Alexandria, ca. 1322–23, tempera on wood panel, 83.2 × 43.5 cm, 32 3/4 × 17 1/8 in., (with frame). Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, inv. no. 6430

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First off, is line. Line is presented a few times throughout the painting including horizontal, vertical, and diagonal line. Horizontal line represents relaxation and placidity, the figure on the ground in the front is a horizontal line because he is dead. His body is in repose which is why he is represented as a horizontal line. Vertical lines represent assertiveness, structure, and growth. Jesus coming down from the middle is vertical and he is defying gravity by entering the painting from the top. Lastly for line, is diagonal lines. Most of the other people throughout the painting are represented as diagonal lines, which represents action and movement. Looking closely at the painting it seems to have a freeze frame look as though in the midst of all the action someone took a photograph of the scene. The diagonal lines also direct our eyes throughout the painting by the way the people are positioned, starting at the left those people are leaning towards the man on the ground. Next to the man is a man standing with his arms raised diagonally towards the far-right figure, and his head is leaning towards Jesus which