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At first glance I notice this Irving Penn photograph seems mysterious and blurry, much like a lot of his works of art. He uses the blurring technique to make you wonder more in detail what is going on in the photo. When researching, I found most of his works are portraits unlike Cretan Landscape. Irving Penn was known as a photographer whose classical simplicity transformed the pages of Vogue magazine. There are very few great portraitists, but he is a sort of sorcerer who seems beyond resemblance. Irving Penn’s Cretan Landscape was a rather large photograph at 15.4x22in. However, it still showcases the magnificent artwork that Irving Penn is capable of. When looking at this photograph, I first think that the man on the horse is the main focus, almost as if he is in charge over everyone else in the picture. I also notice the animals in the back ground almost like cattle, things like sheep and cows. What I don’t understand about this photograph is the shadows of people behind him. I don’t understand their meaning in this picture. I also don’t understand why this photograph’s setting is in the deep woods, almost as if they are all hiding from something. Penn stays in a strict color scheme, using multiple shades of gray staying dark around the sides and moving to lighter shades in the center spaces. He blends these colors going through the many prints he used in the platinum metals and then slowly blends the more distinct colors when the hand-coated color
The artist used an array of colors in the painting to portray his idea. He used different values of colors to show the objects that are getting direct sunlight and those that are shaded. The trees that are in the sunlight have a lighter value of brown on their trunks and a lighter value of green on their leaves, while the trees that are in the shade have darker brown trunks and darker green leaves. The dirt road is a tan color with spots of darker brown to show where the shade lies from the trees. You can tell that the horses and wagons are in the sun because they have a lighter value of color and the artist used a darker
Nicholas Nixon is an American born in 1947 in Detroit, Michigan and he is still alive today. He is known for his black and white
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.
Although Edward Burtynsky’s photography has often been analyzed in relation to the sublime, this aesthetic framework does not account for all that his photography attempts to accomplish. In this paper I will first briefly assess some of recent writing that has positioned Burtynsky’s work in relation to different characterizations of the sublime, such as the toxic sublime. I will then analyze the historical underpinnings of what constitutes the sublime and its concurrent affects. Finally, I will examine why viewing the photographs of Oil solely in relation to the sublime is problematic.
The founder of Pennsylvania was William Penn. William Penn was a religious Quaker. William was born in England. William penn had thirteen kids and two wives. William Penn led the Quakers. William Penn was born in 1644. A Quaker is is a christian religion.William Penn went to a christian college. In the 1970’s William Penn had became important to the Quakers.
John A. Morettam author of William Penn and the Quaker Legacy, presents William Penn's life in a very informational and positively biased story through his years. He looks majorily on the side that William Penn's decisions were right and that his childhood and young adulthood, founding of Pennsylvania, and in his later years his selling of Pennsylvania were all done well. William Penn accomplished a lot and was an esteemed gentleman, and the author really portays him as such while describing everything William did, as well as his relationships. And so the novel starts off with William Penn's father's influence on William Penn Jr. in many different ways. In the beginning of the story it was neglect. He was
The painter uses one point perspective, as shown the by direction of the walls and paintings on the wall. There are seven gentlemen in this painting. Some of them are musicians, playing the violin and watching the music sheets. Some pictures on the wall have the same meaning. The winter landscape, Christ, and trees symbolize the cycle of the life. Much light in this painting can show people the musician face clearly. The musician in orange seems like that he noticed the painter, and rest of them were just doing their own stuff. This detail makes the whole scene very
I know you don’t agree with my decision of becoming a servant of the Penn family, but it’s better than being forced to follow a God that I don’t believe in, better than being discriminated against by people who I thought I could trust, better than being persecuted by the crown. Once I arrive at the colonies I will finally be able to get a taste of freedom. I know, I know, I just sold my soul to William Penn, but still... I agree with William’s plans. He’s a smart man and he’ll implement a democratic system with freedom of religion, fair trials, elect representatives of the people in power, and a separation of powers. Once I get to the colonies I will write to you and notify you of life there. And once I learn my way around the
B) William Penn regarded his colony as a "Holy Experiment" because he was founding a place where people of all religions would be able to live, specifically Quakers (his other experimental ideas included generating profit for himself and enacting liberal ideas in government). Being a Quaker himself, Penn wrote a constitution called the Charter of Liberties in 1701, which guaranteed freedom of worship for all people and made immigration unrestricted. This was his way of testing ideas he had created based upon his belies.
The artistic elements that Jacques Louis David uses in this piece add extreme detail to the simple painting. The complex shadowing shown in the painting play a critical part in the viewer’s perspective of Napoleon. The shadows cast darkness in multiple places, darkening the background, making the back of Napoleon and his horse even darker. This detail causes Napoleon and his horse to stand out against the dark, grey backdrop. Additionally, the horse’s light-colored mane and Napoleon's red cape create a contrast against the sky, drawing the viewer’s eye to them. The depth of field in the photo is another photographic element used in this painting. Although there is a wide depth of field since nothing is very blurred, Napoleon and the horse are sharper than the other elements of the background, for example the cliff, the mountains, and the troop. The depth of field shows that Napoleon and his horse are the main subjects of the painting since they are both closer to viewer, and they are clearer than
This picture was chosen for its background. The background adds detail so that the onlooker can create an idea of who this person might be. While the subject is still the main focus of the portrait the background is just as important as the subject because it suggests a culture that the viewer can make inferences about.
The “American photography” was part of a series documentary books that were developed in America’s photography. The photographs show records of America’s reality during the 1930’s. The book was a refreshment on history cultural emblems such as war, patriotism, and racism. The very first ever one-man exhibition was held. Technically this was Walker’s second exhibition because, in 1933, 39 of his photographs were displayed at the Museum of modern art. These photo images were seen as architectural photos. Walker worked by night at Wall Street and this gave him the opportunity to be a photography by day. Walker is known for his street photography.
- How I see the image is an image of man sitting in the foreground with his hands placed on his chest making a gesture similar to the peace sign. His wrinkly skin, suggests he is an old man and the red scar on his cheek bone seems like he may have been in a physical fight. As my eye wonders to the background, there is a thin black line indicated a plant that has withered may be due to lack of water and sunlight.
In the first image of an old farm field. The image appears to be very old. The image appears centered and the focus helps in showing the stems of the plants. The houses / barns show the designs as well. Even the smoke coming out of the chimney. I also like how the fog in the background shields the mountain in the background scene. When looking at this image it could be mistaken as a painting as in the Pictorialism period.
The name "Photography" comes from the Greek words for light and writing. Sir John Herschel, was the first to use the term photography in 1839, when he managed to fix images using hyposulphite of soda. He described photography as "The application of the chemical rays to the purpose of pictorial representation". Herschel also coined the terms "negative", "positive" and "snapshot".