Museum Visit Paper – Ante Meridian by Frederick Waug

The viewer is at the edge of the cropping of rocks at the foreground, just a few metres away from the falls. The vantage point that the viewer

I visited the Dallas Museum of Art and analyzed the painting Eastport, and Passamaquoddy Bay by Thomas Chambers. This painting is an illustration of the town of Eastport, Maine, and Passamaquoddy Bay, which divides the United States and Canada. In order to better understand the painting we must first know a little more about the artist. “Like many early American artists, Chambers drew inspiration from etchings, engravings and lithographs of American scenery,” and combined it with his passion of realism to produce his masterful works. Chambers makes use of linear perspective in Eastport, and Passamaquoddy Bay as we can see the implied banks of the river converge towards the bottom left of the piece, even though the view is somewhat hindered

These works were beautiful, but some of them were very attractive to author. Therefore, it was difficult to choose just one artifact to describe. It took some times, but finally one decided a painting. This picture was used for the summer 2017 pamphlet cover. This painting is untitled (Woman on Beach) by David Burliuk. He painted it in 1945. In addition, the painter used the watercolor on paper; the paper's size is 14 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. David used many dark colors such as indigo, gray, and black. The woman in the painting, she looks like tanned or Native American. David Burliuk was a futurist. The futurism was started from the early 20th century. During this time period, the technology was developed and people started to accept it. And then, the futurists tried to express the motion and its after-image. According to drawer's background, by one's perception, there is a woman who is dancing on the beach. She is moving her arms up and down. It seems like, David tried to draw a woman's motion. Additionally, the woman is wearing like a primate person, who lived between 1400 to 1800BC. Furthermore, the beach where she stands, it looks like she is in the island. The image of the island and beach is somewhere to relax and enjoy. Moreover, the painter didn't name his figure. One thinks, the painter may wanted the viewers see the picture and imagine the freedom of the movement and named it themselves, instead of stay in the tunnel vision. On the other hand, simply the artist didn't want to title it. Most of the artists are unique and odd. They have their own world and vision; they are sensitive and emotional, difficult to

The fishhooks from far away look like waves done in oil, but once you stand close to the painting you can see the texture of the fish hooks are actually creating the waves. The tactile quality of the fishhooks creates a sense of implied lines as well. When looking at the image of the ocean, the brain sees the curved lines of the waves, but there are actually no lines there just fish hooks. Isla also presented atmospheric perspective because the image looks like the sea goes on for miles and miles. Also, there is a vanishing point where the horizon meets the sea, alluding to the illusion of depth. The complementary colors of the sea, green with the black, creates a picture of a chaotic ocean rather than a calm

Morisot uses a variety of techniques to illustrate a peaceful moment between a mother and daughter on the seaside. Throughout the piece, Morisot uses a series of short and spontaneous lines to create the figures and masses. The presence of these loose brush strokes throughout the piece create both rhythm and unity, making the piece simple and composed. However, variety is also created by the strong contrast between the foreground and background of this piece. The overlapping of the woman, child, and deck with the ocean and the disproportional shapes of the people and ships create an illusion of depth and space. This depth separates the masses present in the foreground from the background. The colors used in the foreground and background are also juxtaposed, with bolder and darker colors being used in the foreground and more bright and muddied colors being used in the background. This contrast establishes emphasis on the masses present in the foreground of the piece (the mother and child). The implied lines created by the gazes of the mother and child also contrast, with the mother’s view

The technique most artists use to project an illusion of the three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensional surface is called perspective. Objects are painted smaller the farther away from the audience is supposed to be, and are painted bigger the closer the audience is supposed to be. A vanishing point is helpful in creating perspective. This technique helps to make up a sense of depth in a piece of art. In Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil, perspective is created by the body of water that is in the foreground of painting. This body of water is going off into the distance in which you cannot see it’s end. In the background, there are

Although the painting I found in the Carnegie Museum of Art was the scenery of the Allegheny River, it reminded of a painting of the scenery of the Mississippi River. The painting “View on the Mississippi” was created in 1858 by a Danish immigrant,

Throughout the film there are many aerial shots of canyons especially in chapter two, Organic. The first canyon image in the movie is an aerial shot of what looks like the Grand Canyon. There is uneven rock formation rows in front of each other. The sunlight is coming from behind the camera, creating deep shadows on the front of the first valley and it creates deep shadows on the valley behind it. This shot moves very slowly across this area and then cuts to several close up shots of parts of the canyon, these images are low contrast they are mostly orange without distinct harsh shadows. After the closeups, there are more aerial shots of the canyon. With each shot the valleys get shallower and the contrast lowers. The shadows are less distinct as the land flattens, the land also has more and greener as it gets flatter, one of the last canyon shot we see before the transition to the next chapter shows the sun rising over completely flat desert like land in the area. For this chapter the filmmakers used regression of contrast to create transition from one scene to the next. The flattening in land with the lowering in contrast also shows time and how what used to be vibrant, with harsh and distinct lines and shadows can fade and erode into flat land with no depth and no contrast. The next chapter is named clouds, they use water to transition from dry harsh land to the flowing clouds in the sky.

In psychology, the primacy effect is defined as the tendency to recall primary information better than information divulged later on. This observation can be extended to how first impressions resonate well in the minds of humans. In her historical novel, Meridian, author Alice Walker reshapes perceptions about who holds power and moral authority and what determines this by making “time out of joint” (choosing an interesting narrative structure, with a most important beginning) and employing symbolism and repetition. Abandoning chronological order forces a reader to constantly abandon preconceived notion about characters, events, movements, and even themselves. As a result, the meaning of reality, life, and what is normal is “resignified”.

The artwork titled Summer Morning, New York Bay painted by Edward Moron in 1872 presents a scene where the artist looks toward the arising sun early in the morning the where the river meets the atlantic ocean near new York city. The overall effect is pearlscent and marvelous including glowing blue, yellow and brown. The morning calm is interrupted by the smokestacks and distant buildings out in the horizon. He created a scene that we can relate to by just looking at the drawing and feeling as if we are there enjoying it and all its dramatic scenary. He created detail of the water and waves and the boats awaiting to go. Edward moron designed this by applying principles of exploring the effects of light and atmosphere upon the water. He wanted

Occasion – It’s a pretty fantastic landscape, imaginary landscape populated with big ships far away from the land, but actually it doesn’t represent a place. Just ask us to imagine imagination itself.

They are so consumed with their struggle against the waves they do not even have the time to notice something as simple as the color of the sky. From the very beginning the reader is filled with the suspense that each individual character feels. Despite the crews struggle with Mother Nature, they are continually struck by the fierce waves. With each passing wave the reader is lead to believe that this one will surely be the one that capsizes the little dingy. “As the salty wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean (256).” Crane creates suspense between the reader and the characters that allow both to feel the relentlessness of nature’s indifference of their struggled attempts to survive. It seems that no matter how hard the crew works to keep the dingy from capsizing “… the waves continued their old impetuous swooping at the dingy, and the little craft, no longer underway struggled woundily over them (259).” The narrator describes the waves as acting carefree and rather impulsive as if they had no obligation to the men for their survival. Nature does not care that this crew of men were working to survive, but nor does it mean to cause the men any harm. The waves are merely there, doing as nature intends the waves

I think the artist is able to communicate the bad condition of the ship and its crew is in. The mood of the work is scary and gloomy. The design and intensity of the waves, the changing weather, and the ships in the ocean seem to make the scene come alive. It really conveys a since of naturalism in the painting the way it depicts the environment around the ship.

The beautiful painting is a visual treat to anyone laying eyes on it. The blue sky the wavy water the sailboats all are ironic to any coastal shore. The moon on the distance is an indication that it’s early dusk or dawn. The sea looks windswept but calm and clear rather than stormy and angry. The ship is setting out on a long journey but the butterflies are an indication to a positive spin on departure so it’s probably intended for people who have had or will have firsthand experience with departure and those emotions.

One of the effective details in the story is when the author us talking about the water and the wind, creating an effect that the reader can feel the same thing that he is describing. The boat as well had really interesting details, describing how everything is still the same from the years they went during the summer.