Sally Mann's Candy Cigarette

Heffernan’s paintings express her untamed imagination with majestic fantasy, dream-like subjects, yet she paints with a very classic technique. When I first viewed The Self Portrait as Wunderkabinett, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel came to mind. Michelangelo illustrates the desire and describes the oneness that humans anticipate with God through salvation. The artists painting technique is traditional, with the sensible and realistic proportions of the human body, the distinguishing lines, the application of shadow, the intricate detail on every object within the painting, and the use of traditional complementary color pairs.

This painting is colorful and suggests a color harmony by using a lots of adjacent colors. It has grey, yellow, brown, green and light blue in the background; it has organic human skin and lip color on the body. Since this work shows nature and human being, it has a real texture. Her body is closer to the viewer, but small hills, trees and mountains are further, which gives it a

The Swing is a typical Rococo painting with loose brushwork, soft colors and an amorphous organic composition which celebrates the beauty of love and sophistication of the ruling class while, The Oath of the Horatii displays war and anger and eschews the Rococo style with its geometric organization and its strong impression of

The colors used in The Swing are soft pastel-like colors that best illustrate the painting’s femininity. The masculine ideals imposed by Neo-Classicism are even evident in David’s use of color. The colors presented in his work are solid, which suggest a male’s ability at making a solid and just decision. On the other hand, the colors used in The Swing are not pure but mixed. Mixing red, yellow, and white probably created the shade of pink in the young woman’s dress. This lack of purity conveyed in the colors of The Swing makes it clear to the viewer that a female’s decision lacks solidness as well as clarity. The forms used in the painting also illustrate how the process of deciding is dependant upon which style of art is representing the process.

The woman is surrounded by two men who seem to be yearning for her attention. At the time this painting was created, a lot of scandal was built up behind it; in the painting, the man in front of the woman seems to be getting a view up her skirt, while her supposed husband stands behind her, pulling the swing. This painting is extremely synonymous with the Rococo era due to the carefree, leisurely nature of the woman on the swing. As well as the scene of luxury and beauty being shown is very typical of the Rococo

SUBJECT (6 pts.): These paintings seem to have a similar subject. Discuss below any differences in their subjects.

The piece has qualities of Early Northern European Renaissance, specifically that of 15th century Flemish paintings. Among popular subject matter, some paintings in this time period were typically altarpieces commissioned for churches. The painting seems to be a customary adaptation of Madonna and child. The technique is very detailed oriented as seen in the brocade fabric held by the angles, the fountain in the foreground, and the partial floral background. All these qualities are close to that of Jan Van Eyck’s style and can be compared to the Musical Angels panel in the Ghent Altarpiece. Van Eyck was known for his microscopic-telescopic vision that recorded things in exact detail. The well-defined and heavy drapery is one distinctive quality

The painting 37.11 Bridget Riley is countless artwork. The painting shows talent and creativity of the painter. When the I see this painting first time, it hazy and I do not feel comfort because it is an illusion. Although I started to see consistently and I found a series of curved black lines painted on a white surface. It has equal margin in all lines and at center, I found three horizontal lines which feel like all lines vibrating in a flow without the use of any technology. In my response, this painting is an illusion and incredible optical art by Victor Vasarely and Bridget

They have different styles of backgrounds, different emphasis, and different emotion expressions. There are just too many differences to mention. However, compare to the numerous differences between these two paintings, the reasons for forming these differences can be traced. Three main points that contribute to these differences are their genres, their backgrounds and their artists’ personal characteristics. These three major reasons will be demonstrated in the following analysis by detailed differences I

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.

Sally mann is a famous, award winning American photographer, who is recognised for her potent images of family, childhood, sexuality and death. Sally is best known for her black and white photography, and a lot of her work has been sold at auctions and spoken about all over the globe, and an enormous amount of articles written on her. One of these articles include ‘A Sneak Peek at Sally Mann’s New Collection of Family Photographs’, which was written by Anna Carnick for the New York Times Magazine, and published in 2015.

I find it interesting that in the painting there is a young girl with her hand covering her face, it seems she is sad about the bird dying. It appears that her father’s hand is around her, and he is explaining something to her. There is an even younger girl who must be the other girl’s sister. She looks worried and has an arm around her sister. The painting is suspicious and a lot of the people in the painting seem frightened. The older man in the middle looks really scary. Everyone seems engaged in conversation except the man in the middle who is looking at the viewer. The people in the painting are dressed rather nicely and seem well-to-do. It is night time in the photo because there are candles and a moon out the window. I wonder why this

In reality, it is a garden. The fact that it is overgrown and energetic only gives it more of a sexual and sensual being. Looming in a mist, it gives a dreamƒlike look. On the right side, you can vaguely make out the villa or palace that the garden belongs to, although it is for the most part concealed by the trees. Most of the trees are lush and full of life while others have no foliage at all. This style is called the blast and the bough and is thought to represent the passion behind The Swing. The free and easy nature is all the more emphasized by the loose brushstrokes.

The portrait is displayed horizontally with a gold trimmed frame. The subject is a female that looks to be in her early 20’s sitting upright on a large brown chair. If the viewer travels up the painting the first indication of the woman’s class is her satin, blue dress. The saturated blue shines and falls in the light like water. Paired with the dress are her exceptionally detailed endings to her sleeves. The lace is even painted as though it is translucent, allowing a little of the blue dress to show through the sleeve. Flowers throughout history have symbolized innocence of a woman and her virginity. The repeating theme of flowers, in the sleeve cuffs and ribbon) in the woman’s attired suggests her purity or innocent nature. Another very details section of the painting includes the corset/torso details. The sewing suggests texture in the torso with small beading in between. Towards the top of the chest in the center, the female seems to bear an extravagant, ribbon piece with a tear drop bead in the center. The light pink

There is always a reason behind each photograph coming out of a professional photographer’s camera while every one of those unique photographs contains so many hidden messages inside which can be best described either by the photographer itself or otherwise variously described by different viewers. In the photograph “Candy Cigarette 1989” is one of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century. Showing a minor girl staring directly into the camera, while cigarette in hand mirroring of adult actions within the innocence and youth of children. Although there might be diverse analysis related to the picture, my interpretation is either she promotes a message to the people to turn away from the path used by most and find their own way, or stay in the same path which is considered a good path and has been used by all successful people.