The Red Tree

In art, there are qualities that speak louder than words. It expresses many different messages and emotions and each person has an experience different from the next. In this paper, I will be discussing two artworks I encountered. The piece is a good example of how people can encounter different experiences in one piece. I attended the Orlando Museum of Art a while back with family and overall enjoyed my experience. On my visit, I found the museum quite impressive and felt a deep connection with specific pieces.

In the picture book, ‘The Red Tree’ written and illustrated by Shaun Tan, the nameless girl goes on a journey to find herself and whom she belongs to. She is dealing with depression and has lost all passion for life. Tan uses the symbol of a red tree and its fallen leaves throughout the pages to show the nameless girl’s hope to belong. The colour red is more symbolic of warmth and passion, feelings that the girl is devoid of and so having red leaves scattered throughout the pages of the book, as the reader, you begin to realize that she unknowingly follows their trail on her cold and lonely journey. In this text, powerful images, with few words, are used to express the young girl’s state of being. Initially the nameless girl is in her bedroom, where she wakes to a light shower of nine blackened leaves. Her room is a soft pastel colour and appears to be safe and warm, yet the text states otherwise “Sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to”. The safe and warm environment undergoes a dramatic change as the girl’s room is swamped with an abundance of blackened leaves. Faced with this cold and dark reality, the girl leaves her room in search of a pleasant environment. Throughout the book you see the young girls journey as she searches for herself and for

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.

Shaun Tan is an Australian author and illustrator of the “silent” graphic novel, The Arrival. It is an illustrated story depicting the shared moods of refugees when they take the plunge and move from their home because of a dangerous factor. It is a story of every migrant, refugee and displaced person. Tan has created this silent graphic novel using certain techniques to captivate his audience. These techniques include; Symbolism, Prominence of visual elements and the use of colors and shades. The two pages which display these techniques are 111 and 112.

Shaun began drawing and painting images for science fiction and horror stories in small-press magazines as a teenager, and has since become best known for illustrated books that deal with social, political and historical subjects through surreal, dream-like imagery. The Rabbits, The Red Tree, Tales from Outer Suburbia, Rules of Summer and the acclaimed wordless novel The Arrival have been widely

In John Berger’s essay “Ways of Seeing,” he shares his view on how he feels art is seen. Mr. Berger explores how the views of people are original and how art is seen very differently. By comparing certain photographs, he goes on to let his Audience, which is represented as the academic, witness for themselves how art may come across as something specific and it can mean something completely different depending on who is studying the art. The author goes into details of why images were first used, how we used to analyze art vs how we do today, and the rarity of arts. He is able to effectively pass on his message by using the strategies of Rhetoric, which include Logos, Pathos, and Ethos.

Shaun Tan, born in 1974, is an award winning illustrator and author of many well-known children’s books. Tan was born and raised in Fremantle, Western Australia, where as a boy, spent his time writing and illustrating poems and stories. Tan was known at his primary school as very talented artist. Through out high school, Tan continued his passion for illustrating, where he was enrolled in a special art program for gifted students. However, Tan eventually took an academic path into university where he studied studied to become a geneticist before chasing down his dream of working as an artist. Tan picked up his education at the University of Western Australia where he studied fine arts and English Literature and graduated in

Emotion has always been a vital part of art and design, and “human responses to the everyday things of the world are complex, determined by a wide variety of factors” (Norman, 2007). Knowing this makes using emotion to make communication more effective, and moving the intended messages past just rational, and on to rational and emotional to make it more memorable. The intent of this paper is: to show how graphic designers and artists of the Romanesque period use emotions to promote their message and intent; and how they approached problems and thought of creative solutions.

Most of us have seen things that officers or other Law agency have done to other individual and have stated that it was either an unreasonable search and seizure of items that was found on or in the individuals’ car, house, etc., but why would they consider it unreasonable? This usually ends up being a problem for individuals who do not understand the law or how it applies to certain situations.

A hint of hope had sprung up in klamead's vile heart right after the announcement that tisumbus had won the flip; it was a yeah moment for un, kind of, but also like damn in reality, yet better than getting all the crap, so klamead had a hint of hope briefly, but his fear overtook him again a few seconds later. At the time, the penny flipping style idea for their eternal torture was freakin' funny from the holy angels viewpoints and Mine. The Rev Tree was also amused in various ways. He found it amusing right after he had rolled with passing klamead up as in next and leaving the turd in the dust style as if the turd were a floater getting flushed down a toilet. The turd was thinking: no f'n way with this merciless stuff, which was more amusing

I am intrigued by the way that artists reflect their emotion by the use of colour. Therefore I have decided to focus on Picasso, Soutine and Matisse. I am going to delve into their frame of mind and attempt to unpick their emotions and link them to how each artist expresses that feeling by using a specific palette of colour. I am fascinated by how the chosen artists may go through similar emotions but reflect these emotions in a completely different way through personal connotations to colour. For example Picasso goes through many periods but one of his main periods was the blue period where he uses blue to link to the fact that he is depressed. This relationship between the artist’s deeper feelings and how they portray this through the expression of colour will be the main focus of this essay. I will use specific

"Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture." -- Otto Dix (Mulch, page 1)

This is an exploratory workshop which I aim through to stimulate and foster qualitative analysis of a part of my visual data from my on going PhD study. I am looking for western perspectives; academics who are interested in/familiar with European paintings e.g. 19th cent era (no expertise required). A number of C3RI scholars from different fields are invited. Your contribution is much appreciated, and will be acknowledged in my thesis. It shall take1.5 to 2 hours, refreshments are provided

Viewing African art without prior depth of knowledge on the piece means you are only viewing for the outside appearance, instead of its implications, African sculptures can be enjoyed for their beauty without previous familiarity, “but one is not necessarily sharing in the sculptor’s experience or

Looking back on my first years of studying, I was lost and unsure of how to approach a given theme; to work in depth in order to create a piece that will successfully communicate my ideas. Through experience and practice, on my studies in ‘Visual Arts’ (at the ‘IB Moraitis School’