Art Analysis: Family By Reg Narmour

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Reg Narmour’s piece titled Family represent a portrait of a full family standing in the blue and red background. This painting is located in the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts. This piece is hanging on the wall and only can be seen from one side. In his painting, Family, Narmour effectively creates the painting’s composition and employs the element of color, and the principle of focal point, to depict the story of a broken family. The Family painting is watercolor on canvas with dimension 30 x 70 cm. This piece is the representational of full family that consist of father, mother, baby, son, daughter and the dog. They are all standing in the red and blue background with different poses and positions. The daughter is in the …show more content…

The focal point of this painting is the head of the daughter. Narmour uses psychological lines in order to show the emphasis of the painting. The psychological line used in this painting is created by the perceptual connection between the daughter and the other member of the family. Even though most of the figure have no eyes, but the gesture of their head shows that they are looking at the daughter’s head. Narmour effectively employs this element in his painting, so when the viewers see this piece, their attention would first go to the daughter’s head. The daughter’s pose (hands on her hips) shows that she is the antagonist actor. This also could be seen by the dark color combination of her clothing and her face. Also, the dog that she pets looks sad and tortured emphasizing the sense of her bad personality. She is the only adult (teen) that has mouth. This means that she is the only person who talks to all family members and become the source information within the family. With that being said, by using focal points, Narmour wants to show to the viewers that the daughter is actually the person who causes all the chaos within the

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