View From My Window by Camille Pissarro
This painting is a landscape and was painted, by Pissarro, from an
upstairs window overlooking his back garden. This picture is mainly
about farmland as it has a lady with some hens and some cows in the
distance.
In the foreground of this picture there is a large shrub at the front,
to the right there is a grass area with a more similar shrubs and to
the left there is another grass area with a lady surrounded by hens.
The middleground is all grass area with several trees and several cows
you can just see. The background has all trees - the start of a forest
and then a sixth of the picture includes the sky. The artist captures
your attention by the bright colours and in my opinion the focal point
of the picture is the roof of the building as it's red and is the
brightest point. I don't think the artist has really used line as such
, but he creates line by dabbing the brush to form straight lines.
I think the artist has used a wide range of tones from light to dark,
the lightest point being the very centre of it which is a light
green/yellow colour and the brightest point being the red roof. There
are a few dark points too - there is a very dark green shrub and at
the left background the sky is a dark grey/blue. I like this because
it adds form to the painting and i think it makes it look more
realistic.
I think the shapes that have been used are regular eg. the sky is a
rectangle , the trees are a rounded rectangle shape and circle shaped.
In my opinion most of the shapes are formed and look 3D.
The main colour of this painting is green and it's used in all
different tones and shades. I think the majority of the colours are in
harmony although I would say the red contrasts with the green around
it. I'm sure a different approach could have changed the picture eg.
with warmer colours it would look more of a sunny picture but with
darker colours it would look more of a dull picture. I think the
texture of the picture looks rough because the artist has created
texture by using dabs of paint to make a shape or an object.
The building in the foreground is slose up but you can tell it gets
further and further away into the distance as the trees get smaller
and there's a lot more of them.
...nd beam effect from the composition with the lighter hues in order to create the visual experience from frozen light in the piece.
There is a lot of repetition of the vertical lines of the forest in the background of the painting, these vertical lines draw the eye up into the clouds and the sky. These repeated vertical lines contrast harshly with a horizontal line that divides the canvas almost exactly in half. The background, upper portion of the canvas, is quite static and flat, whereas the foreground and middle ground of the painting have quite a lot of depth. This static effect is made up for in the immaculate amount of d...
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