Philemona Williamson's 'Limb'

This tree painting originates in Northern Australia. The painting is depicting the creation of an Aboriginal tribe in Australia. The artist creates this painting by using pigment to carve the image onto the bark of a tree. The painting is used to commemorate and to narrate the story of the creation of the tribe. I like this artwork because of its purpose and function. I also like this artwork because of its medium and appearance.

The trees within the image is positioned to symbolise the females within the regency period and the 20th century. On the left page, from the sky, symbols of music, art, statues of dancers and the modern languages are pouring down to nourish these trees, highlighting the type of education that was encouraged for women in the regency period. Under these trees there are symbols of music, art, dance and modern languages hanging off their branches to symbolise the acquired education that regency females received from their nourishment. The page on the right-hand side highlights trees and fertile seeds growing with an invisible force from the sky to indicate that the spectrum for education towards women is not constricted. This indicates that females were encouraged to participate in all the various types of education. Subsequently, the trees produce different symbols of education, such as books, universities and career pathways. In between these two types of trees there is a line which separates these two to represent that although females from both periods were encouraged towards education, both differ in the type of education they were encouraged as a result of their context. Thus, as a result of their context the items in which these trees grow are

Imagine this: you are walking across a field, your feet feel the damp soil beneath you, the gentle breeze moves the grass beads in unison raising your spirits as you stare at the endless horizon which is out of reach. Looking at Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” invokes similar emotions in us. Paintings have always had the effect of appealing to senses beyond just sight: they appeal to our emotions and all our other senses. We wish to share this “sublime” natural world and depart from our own. We wish we in habited this space and shared in its beauty alongside this woman.

This painting shows how to deal with perspective in painting and is focused on the natural world, this changed the art of landscape paintings and how they were done.

At first glance, the sculpture seems to represent a tree beneath the sun, with a man standing and injecting a bag with something as rocks spill out of the back. However, closer analysis reveals that each part alludes to a component of Transcendentalism. The sculpture “Ideas in Nature” uses visual symbolism to represent the importance of simplicity, individuality, and nature. The sculpture uses a very simplistic and almost childlike style to convey a message, which reflects the Transcendentalist notion that nature should be viewed from the perspective of a child. Emerson builds on this idea when he states, “The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child,” (Emerson 693). The quote suggests that in order to

Coupled with the lights and the trees the two people complete the painting and gives it a center focal point which draws the viewers eye. The colors in the painted

What is being represented in this piece is what seems to be the mid day sun shining down, illuminating the forest. The angle that this piece was portrayed was from the level of a human eye. As if someone was walking on a forest trail and looked around, but instead of seeing fare in the distance, tree trunks and leaves block their view. The trees are seen only from the bottom of there trunks, just as if someone was looking strait ahead. How the painting is hanging portrays this as well. It his hanging at a level were an average hight person looks slightly above the middle of the piece than your eye moves downward to see the forest floor.

theme of grief and its overall gloomy color scheme represent the mournful tone of the poem. Furthermore, the poem discusses the solitude of the speaker in the house and the lack of any additional human presence and the absence of vivacity in nature; this painting illustrates this notion through trees devoid of their leaves, the absence of any animal or human and the lack of sunlight as a result of the dull wintry setting. “Morning in the Burned House” captures the reader’s attention through eloquent descriptions despite its bleak content. My Street embodies this trait of the poem perfectly; it displays an isolated and gloomy environment, yet, it illustrates the landscape with captivating colors and sensibly placed brushstrokes.

In Paul Cezanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire, the artist uses a Japanese influence to paint a light filled panoramic landscape, and harmonized patches of bright colors to convey his post-impressionist view of the parallel to nature that the mountain represented to him. In the foreground, is a tree which is on the left side of the painting. This tree gives the viewer the feel of the Japanese influence with its sharp contours and compressed space. The tree’s branches are encased in pine needles which appear to be woven into the sky. The tree’s trunk and branches give depth and perspective to the painting, as well as draws the eye to the mountain in the background. The contour lines outline the mountain top and separate it from the light blues and yellow swirled together to

As a creative writer, I stand apart from the rest. When I was a child, I never found reading fun or an activity I would do on purpose. The thought of reading different combinations of phonetic symbols for hours on end didn’t sound like an ideal Saturday afternoon. I found excitement in creating stories and breathing life into characters, but not through the writing medium. As a child, like most writers, I wrote books. Except, I had an emphasis on the art quality rather than how words can manipulate a reader into feeling a specific sensation. When I reached middle school, I experienced a shift in my creative ideals. The words, along with the image, can be used to inflict a particular emotion. From now on, I prioritize the illustrations alongside the written word. Through my BFA in Creative Writing, I wish to learn how to manipulate words, with the combination of pictures, to express myself. By expressing myself,

In Spirituality, the figures retain a connection to life, while their forms have become less substantial. Although they may appear as just outlines, they are part of the vibrating energy around them. The artist seeks to depict both the visible material world and also invisible dimensions, such as thoughts, dreams, emotions, imaginations. In these paintings, there is an evocation of spiritual feelings and a sense of our passage through this existence, the entrance into a non-material world, and the continuity after life.

The man stands on dull, dark-green land. According to color-wheel-pro.com, the article “Color Wheel Pro - See Color Theory in Action” asserts that dark green is associated with ambition. Yet, according to edvardmunch.org in this painting, the man’s ambition is being suppressed because of the crimson plant which is preventing him from moving forward into the future. The crimson plant is “possibly intended as a mandrake, with its love and death symbolism”. Along with the black clothing, the plant further reinforces the idea that the girl might as well as be dead to him but at the same time he still cares for her. Assuming that the crimson on his hand and the plant is blood, the man feels like he has the blood of his lover on his hands. He feels guilty because of his part in their breakup, which is an emotion other than sorrow which is why the hand clutching his chest is brighter than his face. Looking behind the man, the brown tree is barren yet bright. According to incredibleart.org, the article “Color Symbolism and Culture” says that the color brown signifies comfort. However, since the tree is barren, the tree does not represent comfort but a lack thereof. Looking to the right of the girl, the golden path is surrounded by a dark purple shoreline and purple sky and water. According to incredibleart.org, the article “Color Symbolism and Culture” states that purple

Emily Carr’s Young Pines in Light (c. unknown) uses elements and principles that suggest movement in the painting. The various use of lines, the presence of positive space, the use of colour and an asymmetrical balance all help to suggest motion in the painting.

The artist also demonstrates a form of perspective with the sidewalk or road in the background with the trees bordering it, the trees start from being bigger then gets smaller as it being further away in the painting. The space between the individuals and the buildings in the background are suppose to be more on the deeper side because the smaller the object is that is supposed to be big, the further it is away from the main attraction. This painting displays a small amount of visual space in some areas. The object that caught my eye the most was the wooden flooring, it goes in a pattern of lines then a space then lines again.

His paintings always hold an emotional and expressionistic air to them. I wanted to draw on this technique in my artwork to create a powerful sense of finding one’s self in other section of my artwork piece. My idea was to show the two sides of migration of self. By moving on and growing up you either become the person you feel you were always meant to be or the person you regret becoming. The one half of my project reflects the latter and the other half reflects the former. A mirror between them shows that there is little in the way of becoming either person, and there is little in the way of trying to change. My artwork draws on themes of identity crisis, migration of self, isolation and regret. Similar themes are used by Stan Miller as well as similar techniques of watercolour painting. I drew inspiration from Stan Miller because of the expressive use of strokes he uses to create a haunting portrait that depicts fragmentation, isolation and similarly migration of self. His portraits connect through the use of sombre colours of dark blues, greens and purples contrast to the pencil and graphite used create a transformation of ideas as my artwork shows two contradicting points of view on the migration of self.