Beautiful Birds Throughout the history of art, birds have appeared in many different masterpieces. The birds may not be the same species and they may not live in the same habitat, but the works of art still offer unbelievable amounts of resemblance. Dabbling Ducks is a painting created by Ricky Montilla that depicts two ducks in their natural environment. Doves and Olive Branch was created by Steve Simon and it illustrates three doves flying in the sky. Swan Lake was painted by Terrece Beesley and it portrays a swan floating in a lake. The Height of Freedom was produced by Randy McGovern and it shows an eagle soaring through the sky. These images all depict birds in their natural habitats and allow the viewer to experience nature’s profound …show more content…
For three of the selected images, the artists used oil paint on a canvas to display their beautiful creations. Dabbling Ducks was created with oil paint on a canvas that was twenty-one inches wide and twelve inches tall (Montilla). Doves and Olive Branch was also created with oil paint on a canvas using seven different colors (Simon). The Height of Freedom was originally created using oil paint on a canvas seventeen and a half inches wide and twenty-three and an eighth inches tall, now having a limited edition of 1,500 signed and numbered replicas (McGovern). The final image, Swan Lake, was made with watercolor on cold-pressed paper using only three different pigments …show more content…
The differing types of space in each image help the viewer observe the masterpiece from the view intended by the artist. Dabbling Ducks has a limited amount of area surrounding the ducks, however you can still decipher from the environment that they are near the side of a river or stream because there is a reflection of the bank near the edges of the painting. Doves and Olive Branch shows linear perspective when looking at the trees and hills in the background because as the hills recede from the sun, the trees get less and less detailed until they reach the vanishing point where you can no longer see individual trees on the hills. Swan Lake also shows linear perspective when looking at the content behind the swan because as you go farther down the lake, the water and the surrounding trees and rocks diminish until they reach the vanishing point of blue. The Height of Freedom exhibits atmospheric perspective because the eagle is larger and more detailed on the painting, showing it is closer than the background, which is smaller and less
The texture of the paint is smooth and flows very nicely the paintings composition is primarily bundled into the bottom right half of the image. The wings and legs of the animals as well as and table help form an invisible sloping line across the painting.
The focal point of being the mother and appear to be true to size. In comparison, the apple, the trees and landscape in the in the distance are all represented to be true to size based on this perspective. The women being bare foot along with the child who is naked provides unity to painting as they are part of the natural landscape. All of this, gives the viewer the impression that this is a realistic picture.
At the left-bottom corner of the painting, the viewer is presented with a rugged-orangish cliff and on top of it, two parallel dark green trees extending towards the sky. This section of the painting is mostly shadowed in darkness since the cliff is high, and the light is emanating from the background. A waterfall, seen originating from the far distant mountains, makes its way down into a patch of lime-green pasture, then fuses into a white lake, and finally becomes anew, a chaotic waterfall(rocks interfere its smooth passage), separating the latter cliff with a more distant cliff in the center. At the immediate bottom-center of the foreground appears a flat land which runs from the center and slowly ascends into a cliff as it travels to the right. Green bushes, rough orange rocks, and pine trees are scattered throughout this piece of land. Since this section of the painting is at a lower level as opposed to the left cliff, the light is more evidently being exposed around the edges of the land, rocks, and trees. Although the atmosphere of the landscape is a chilly one, highlights of a warm light make this scene seem to take place around the time of spring.
Starting with visual elements I saw lines, implied depth, and texture. I see lines by him using lines created by an edge. Each line is curved not straight but it works with the piece. By using this he creates the piece to make it whole. He uses many curved lines within the painting I don’t know if there is a straight line in the whole thing. The next element I saw was implied depth. Using linear perspective you can see the mountains but they look smaller than the rest of the piece. They are the vanishing point in the back making it look as if you can walk down and they will get closer and closer to you. The last element that I saw was texture. They talk about Van Gogh’s painting, The Starry Night having texture through a two- dimensional surface, in which this painting has that similar feel. Van Gogh uses thick brush stokes on his paintings to show his feelings. There is actually a name for this called, Impasto,
Rowland, Beryl. Birds With Human Souls, A Guide to Bird Symbolism. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1978.
Eric Fishl’s Scarsdale is a painting that is done on three canvases. When placed together, they appear to make one whole picture. The focal point of the painting is the woman, dressed in a white gown and veil. It appears that she is wearing a wedding dress, since the dress is white and includes a veil. To the left is a cat and to the right is a dog. The woman represents the focal point, not only because she is the largest figure in the painting, but also because everything else is slightly in darkness. Fischl’s cat and dog can only be made out if one looks at the painting carefully. Fischl also paints the woman so that she almost appears to be floating in air. One can see that she is sitting on a chair, but the dog is directly under her, and he does not really use perspective to make it clear that the woman is not floating in midair.
... study for the overall concept they appear rather as abstract patterns. The shadows of the figures were very carefully modeled. The light- dark contrasts of the shadows make them seem actually real. The spatial quality is only established through the relations between the sizes of the objects. The painting is not based on a geometrical, box like space. The perspective centre is on the right, despite the fact that the composition is laid in rows parallel to the picture frame. At the same time a paradoxical foreshortening from right to left is evident. The girl fishing with the orange dress and her mother are on the same level, that is, actually at equal distance. In its spatial contruction, the painting is also a successful construction, the groups of people sitting in the shade, and who should really be seen from above, are all shown directly from the side. The ideal eye level would actually be on different horizontal lines; first at head height of the standing figures, then of those seated. Seurats methods of combing observations which he collected over two years, corresponds, in its self invented techniques, to a modern lifelike painting rather than an academic history painting.
An artwork will consist of different elements that artists bring together to create different forms of art from paintings, sculptures, movies and more. These elements make up what a viewer sees and to help them understand. In the painting Twilight in the Wilderness created by Frederic Edwin Church in 1860 on page 106, a landscape depicting a sun setting behind rows of mountains is seen. In this painting, Church used specific elements to draw the viewer’s attention directly to the middle of the painting that consisted of the sun. Church primarily uses contrast to attract attention, but it is the different aspects of contrast that he uses that makes the painting come together. In Twilight in the Wilderness, Church uses color, rhythm, and focal
The images related to birds are the major symbolic images in the narrative from the very beginning of the novel:
This piece of art is done in watercolor, which crafts a wonderful blend of colors that creates a visual
A small child views a painting, giggling to his mother how it looks like an elephant soaring throughout the galaxy. An hour later a middle age man views the exact painting only to acknowledge the abstract painting as a collage of miscellaneous shapes and colors. This view is much like the comparison between John James Auburn and Annie Dillard passages, revealing opposite and similar aspects on the subject of birds.
... perspective with the soldiers and the building. The soldiers in the foreground are much larger compared to the building and soldiers in the background. Perspective is achieved by the size differences between close up objects and far away ones like the horses. The foreshortening is used by the artist in the soldier's arm pointing the viewer into the painting. All eyes above are directed down to the battle field. Lastly, I was drawn to the painting The Battle between Christians and Moors at El Sotillo by Francisco de Zurbarán (1648) due to a lot of emotion and drama unfolding before my eyes. I could see a story with a compelling narrative as I looked at the painting. Indeed, I probably spent most of my time at the museum on this piece of art. The painting had an interesting back story and a lot of action which made for a satisfying viewing and analytical experience.
...thin this painting is appealing to the eye. With regards to linear perspective, this painting has a diagonal in which the figures line up and converge to one point.
Atmospheric perspective is where “forms which are far in the distance lose their clarity and sharpness due to dust and moisture in the atmosphere” (Notes). In “The Death of Socrates” the women in the back ground are examples of atmospheric perspective. Even though you can tell they are women they are not clear like the men that are in the painting. In “The Death of Sardanapalus” the figure that are in the dark near the bed in also an example of atmospheric perspective. Even though they have common characteristics there are differences too. A difference between the two painting is that in “The Death of Socrates” painting there is a foreground, middle ground and background, but in “The Death of Sardanapalus” painting it is tipped up towards the viewer because of the use of dramatic
Mafia baby is an image with a scowling baby dressed in a tuxedo with a bow-tie pointing to the ground. The captions typically portray the baby as an infant version of The Godfather. The image was originally posted on Reddit in 2011. The baby also has been Photoshop in the classic godfather scenes. It became popular in 2012 and rose up to fame due to the movie Godfather and other old time mafia culture. It plays off that ole school gangster vibe. A tuff or thug but dressed in a nice tux giving it that ole time feel, back when everyone dressed formal all the time. That the image also shows the baby with little to no hair, that adds to the classic look of a mafia icon. They also take famous quotes from the godfather and use it in the terms of a baby. Like “grab my nemo blanket…because tonight he is sleeping with the fishies”. Or “humpty was the rat….make it look like an accident”. These are spoofs or parodies of quotes off the movie Godfather. I feel that my creation of the fits in with the family of memes that surround this image.