Wiegardt's The Lacuna

Color is highly evident in this painting, and helps to draw the viewer’s eye to certain places in the painting. The café is yellow, and adds a boisterous feeling to that section of the piece. The yellow light spills onto the street and walls of the town, creating bright colors and drawing the eye. The sky and town use dark colors to illustrate nighttime, although the bright spots of the stars cause the viewer to look to the sky.

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Space and colors dominates this piece of art. The artist used a three dimensional space where the road angle created a 3-D look. The road is going narrow as it goes towards the back part and the artist make it look like more realistic by making the trees smaller as well. White and blue color dominates the drawing. Blue symbolizes so many things

According to the essay “ Nature Through the Looking Glass”, the author believes that people should be part of nature, but most of the time people do not have real touch activity of nature. Under the strong competition society, it is not easy for a normal worker to go outside and interact with the nature. Those green plants on two sides of the city sidewalk is one of the chances for people to get touch to nature. More importantly, walking in the city sidewalks is easier than having a travel, which can satisfy most of the city people’s working requirement . Also, nature world will bring quiet life for people I always ask myself, if I can live without business area, after reading the essay “ The Forged City”. And I get a response, which is people need to get out of business activities and come back to nature even a short time in each day. Without interest relationship, people’s life will become simple and pure. Shopping malls cannot replace traditional city centers because people have large limitations in business malls. In contrast, people can observe different levels people in the society with equality ideas in traditional city centers. City sidewalks can fit for this requirement and provide a comfortable area for all of us. When children go

contained many universal themes that could apply to our everyday lives. The biggest and most

The convergence of the implied lines forming the river banks with the fading blue mountains on the right produce a left to right movement when viewing the painting. The invisible lines created by the mountain range and the river emphasize direction by moving the viewer from a narrow and cramped foreground to a vastly open background that seems to go on for miles. His use of lines to produce this movement down the river has an effect of taking the viewer on a short ride into the distance towards the open mountains under a clear blue sky with white fluffy clouds. In contrast the buildings in the distance are enveloped in white with much softer lines and less defined outlines. This progression from clearly outlined and defined to less defined and wispy shapes communicates the thought of starting a journey in firm reality and moving down a dreamy river towards the unknown. Carefree clouds, beautiful mountains, and blue water just take the viewer to a more serene place, away from the reality of the

Throughout the assigned texts we have been reading there have been many underlying themes that all contribute to one major theme, racism in early

The use of lines in Stone City is one of the key visual elements in this painting. The artist used many contour lines to define the boundaries between the trees and the valley, the river and the land, and even the long roads from the hills as it winds through the countryside. Wood also incorporated a lot of implied lines into his artwork. The trees and bushes that line the hills create a line of sight which draws the eye of the viewer to the house on the river, which is the focal point of this painting. The lines all move in different directions and help the artist highlight different aspects of the painting. Around the city and in the foreground of the painting the artist uses a lot of horizontal lines, which gives the town a calm sensation. As we move away from the city, we find a lot of vertical lines which denote growth. We also find a lot of diagonal lines which imply action in the painting. The diagonal lines are predominantly used by the artist in the creation of the roads and

Lueth and Roden have transformed a block piece into a meticulous 46″ x 30″ artwork. Portraying lush forests and an abundant growth of exotic and colorful landscapes, the work has an abundance of vibrancy to rival a rainbow, under a landscape of a mountain range. The woodblock print, Overlook, is built on 5 plates including 4 color blocks each uniquely carved on

On the top there are some houses of people settle.Michael use the color to represent the contrast, it give the viewers a strong feeling. He only use curving line to draw the river at the bottom of the cliff, it shows the movement in the whole picture. Then the whole view he painted on a man’s face its shows the proportion, I think it also catch the point of the cliff dweller. Michael use most of the cool tone to portray the landscape, the trees, water, and cliff all

For Urban Planners students the video is relevant to see because the chance of in the future years we are facing issues affected by the growth and development of a big city is high. Since the United States became more urbanized social and environmental problems, have to be carefully analyzed. The documentary

This story is set in the unique city of Barcelona. From what I have read and I heard, I have gathered that the city is like no other. Its’ buildings are un-predictable, and there is no other building

This large canvas is mostly filled with warm hue of green, orange, red, and white, but the saturation is very dull. The dullness surrounding the city represents the state in which our society is currently living in; from the pollution, climate change, and the negative impact of urbanism on the environment. The aspect that is most emphasized is the city, which is centred in the middle and only takes up a small portion of the canvas. The city is represented by nine buildings which looks

There are few people inside yet there are many crowding the streets outside of the bar. Figini made the decision of using vivid colors for the lighting to give off feeling of a ‘party atmosphere’. By having no one in the casino bar, it opens up the idea that maybe there is something bigger going on outside. By having only a few people at the casino, and all this motion going on outside, there’s a sense of chaos or maybe the ‘calm before the storm’. By using the bright colors as lights, it’s very active and hard to rest your eyes between the contrast of the dark floor and ceiling against the vibrant lights. The colors help the idea of a chaotic busy city when your eyes are drawn to look at all the colors on the canvas. The work appears to relate to the bustling city of New York because of the large overhead TV’s outside of the bar displaying either advertisements or news. All the lines in the work lead just off center, helping to draw the eye through all the colors, and even though it is a still image, there’s the feel of motion because of the repetition of the curved lights in the buildings and the bustle of people

The entryways of the building come from four different sides and meet in the middle. The overall shape of the building creates different views and facades. The building was not created just on the looks of it; it is made up of a three dimensional, stimulating, tactile human thing.