Distinctively Visual Analysis Paper

In eight quasi-connected stories, Susan Vreeland delivers a fictional lesson on aesthetics. Set amidst human sorrow and historic chaos, the narrative follows an imagined Vermeer painting from the present day through 330 years of its provenance--beginning with its willful destruction in the 1990s and concluding with its inspired creation in the 1660s:

The artwork uses many values and shades of colors. There are four different figures in the painting. One that is a baby covered with this transparent material that is streaming throughout the entire thing. There is a pale women that is admiring her beauty and is not paying attention to her surroundings. She has long, wavy hair which she is fixing while looking at her reflection. The next figure is an older version of her. She is darker than the other women with wrinkles that shows the aging of the lady. The last figure is at the right holding an hourglass on the top of the painting. It is a warning of how much time she has left before death. Her body is all scrawny and her bones are showing. It looks like she represents death with her hair being all fallen out. The pale women is dominant in the painting. The rest of the painting is dark and it looks like the artist only used a few colors for the painting.

Overall, it seems like there are many people in society now living in our present life. Their society is developing and improving a little bit because of people at the bottom with shackled hands whom are under the influence of the three figures who have a bigger dream and look at higher world. Each of them in the painting has an object on their hands. These seem to be important clues to interpret this painting. One is holding a book, second is holding a jar or flask and third one is holding handwriting, directing or measuring tools of an architect with compass. And there is a globe

His hand is positioned on the bottom left of the frame with the fingers and palm situated towards the middle left side. The shoulders positioned in the top third cut through representing a horizon. The direction of the fingers makes your eye travel around the painting, the tie the slices through the middle of the shirt, the cuff of the shirt cuts across to stop your eye falling out of the frame, the lightness balancing all the darkness. The mouth dominates the image and drags you eye back to the

The painting can also be interpreted without the history. When first trying to interpret the painting I believed the man was unable to enjoy the bliss in life. The sweetness in life would be represented by the flowers. The basket would represent the hard work the man does that does not allow him to enjoy

I feel happy when I look at this painting because you see people laughing, eating, chatting, and smiling while having a good time outdoors in nice weather. When I divided the painting into four sections I seen in the top left boats sailing in the water with a bridge in the distance that I had not noticed that makes the art work look peaceful because of the colors used in the distance with the water. Another piece I had not noticed was in the top right piece of the work was a women holding her hands to her ears which may indicate that it is loud because of everyone socializing. In the bottom left corner you see a women talking to a dog that is sitting on the table which shows a sense of love. Also in the bottom right-hand side you see a women and two other men look like they are having a conversation. By these images it is clear to see some symbolism such as the dog on the table, these people are more than likely not very proper if they have a dog on the same table they just ate off of. Also the women holding her ears is symbolic and shows the viewer with all the people talking it is noisy. Another image that is symbolic is how the men are wearing revealing shirts while the

It is representative of this particular stage, because it reminds of a mother holding their grown child in their arms. When talking about the stage of launching children, the child is launched into various situations that when returning home, the child, now a young adult is unrecognizable to its mother. Nevertheless, in the picture we can see the hands holding them both together, as if a new relationship is being built, yet needs extra support. For me, this painting represented my mom and I clashing on our religious beliefs. Because when I left home I was catholic and upon coming back home, I was not anymore. We have been struggling to let go of my old identity, and having her deal with the fact that I am not a child with the religious background that she tried to enforce upon

This painting give us a clue that he was beginning to fall in a state of depression. The very obscure colors combined with glimpses of light are very common of his style during the early phase of his depressive moments. On the right corner of this painting we find a man and a woman many understand this as his conflicting relationship with his brother and sister in law.

The artwork is black, white, and grey with varying line lengths and thickness. The most prominent feature is the woman's nose and lips and even the edges of her face are mostly implied lines instead of hard lines. The picture is gritty and looks as if someone scrubbed a regular black and white image of a woman with a scrub brush of some sort. It is hard to tell if there is an overlaying image that is covering the woman's face or if it is just supposed to be her hair. Her nose and lips are a bit on the larger and thicker side, she may have been intended to be African American or Hispanic. Some of the wisps around her face seem feather-like. The image only shows her from just below her shoulders and up and it seems like she may have on sunglasses. The image also has quite a bit of white background which is not that common for artworks to have, typically the artist tries to fill in each part of their canvas with the image or wit hanother color besides white.

This Painting depicts the landscape along the Seine River. It is a painting of the landscape from the view point in the middle of the river possibly on a bridge above the river. According to the MET website, he actually painting on a boat in the middle of the river (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437125)

I knew that this art must have a meaning to it that I just couldn't see yet until I did some research. The top portion of the canvas contains three identical circles. However, just by staring at the painting, it made me feel as if the artist was trying to portray anger in the first circle. The bright colored red on this peach colored canvas is the brightest color. Gottliieb also has a pink, and tan colored circle next to the red circle. It's like his anger slowly dimmed out and he found peace within himself. Under the circles there is thick black paint brushed on the canvas. At first, I thought it was some foreign language, but it doesn't seem very legible. He uses repetition by using three circles, and the black paint brings out the whole

This chapter looks at the various stylistic aspects in the prints which can be identified as Chinese or portraying Chinese origin and a plenty of factual detail and local narrative.

This man in the painting expresses a natural form of well-being. The slanting nature of his back shows a man not so different from each and every man. His facial expressions give the idea of not perfect joy, nor contempt,but almost a look of bashfulness with

And yet how simple still is the execution of his work. The implications therein grow increasingly complex as one delves into his system of symbolism. Once she had overheard him say, “My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question ‘What does that mean’? It does not mean

he painting Amour et Psyché, enfants is an oil painting by William Adolphe created in 1890 and the motion picture "the Pursuit of Happyness" by Steven Conrad both effectively convey the power of love in a time of despair. In this paper, I will argue that both Amour et Psyché, enfants and "The Pursuit of Happyness" both communicate how the role of love plays into overcoming hardships. In the following paragraphs, we will consider the inspirations, scenery, techniques used to convey the mood and the stories behind these artworks that shed light in the depiction of love within and after sorrow.