The Shepard’s Keeper
Throughout time there has been at least one constant that I am aware of. That constant is art. One particular piece of art stands out and catches the eye. That piece of art is The Shepherdess and Her Flock constructed and perfected by Jean Francois Millet. When one makes a certain judgment on a piece of art, one must be precise and certain about that judgment. When observing Millet’s piece I will take in to consideration three things to make my judgment: use of color, theme, and meaning.
The Shepherdess and Her Flock catches the eye very quickly. The painting consists of a shepherdess tending to her sheep in some remote hills perhaps and most likely in Western Europe. The shepherdess herself is standing just a few paces ahead of her flock while they are all grouped together tightly apparently feeding. She is holding a staff while studying the ground. The look on her face makes her seem like she is disturbed for some unknown reason. The shepherdess is wearing many articles of clothing. Her first layer is blue and reaches down to her ankles. The next layer appears to be some kind of shawl. The shawl is cream colored and only reaches just past her waist. The final piece of clothing is red and only covers her head. The grass beneath the shepherdess, which covers the entire land, has bald spots and contains dandy lions giving it great character. This is the grass on which the flock is feeding on. Watching over the sheep is a shepherd dog stand just to the right of the flock. The dog stands very proudly and has a great pride in his job. The sky in this work is covered entirely with clouds. The only bare spot in the sky is at the very top of the painting where the clouds begin to split. Millet’s work appears to be set early in the morning. Looking beyond the flock as far as the painting will allow, one can see some hills and trees and perhaps a small village or town. This painting is overwhelming with beauty and style and elegance. Millet comes to the edge of perfection is his work, The Shepherdess and Her Flock.
When an artist creates a piece, in this case a painting, the artists must take into consideration the colors that he/she uses.
Besides bright or dim colors, and fine or rough brush strokes, artists use centralized composition to convey their interpretations in "The Acrobat's Family with a Monkey," "Amercian Gothic," "The Water-Seller," and "The Third of May,1808.”
... of artists. The quality of the workmanship is evident not only did these artists possess an acute sense of beauty, they had a highly evolved sense of design which cannot be denied.
James A. Garfield was the 20th President of the United States. He was born November 19, 1831, in a log cabin at Orange Township, Ohio (known today as Moreland Hills, Ohio). He died September 19, 1881, in Elberon, New Jersey (Summers, 2017, 1). His Father was Abram Garfield and his Mother was Eliza Ballou Garfield. His father died when he was two and he was left helping his widowed mother work her farm outside Ohio. James didn't want to be a farmer. Instead he dreamed of being a sailor so he ran away at sixteen to work on canal boats. However, he became extremely ill from accidentally falling into the water so many times that he had to return home. During this period in his life he realized that he needed to use his brain and intelligence
Before analysing selected art works in more detail it will be worth introducing a few different definitions and hypothesis of aesthetics in art based on theories of well-known critical thinkers.
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Crowther’s main point is that, if visual art is to be understood in ways going beyond the spectatorial viewpoint alone, art must be examined within both the analytic and phenomenological traditions of philosophy (page). He offers critical discussions of Wollheim, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan and Dufrenne to demonstrate this. (Curiously, he omits from his analysis Ingarden’s work, Bachelard’s poetics of space and Nietzsche, whose philosophy could have helped him to develop a connection between picturing and eternal recurrence more effectively.)
I agree with this statement because color is important and the color makes the picture brighter. When you color with different colors you can see the different lines of the paint that you couldn’t see before or that was hard to see without the paint. Some of the sculptures already have color in them when the artist is done making them. Like in the picture there is some white and black in the sculpture. But if the artist would but some color to the face it would show the lips, eyes, and nose a lot better. Also the color in the sculpture will make it stand out and I like to use color when I am coloring or when I am painting something because it brightens up my mood and it makes it look prettier I think. Some people just like the color black and white because they like the natural. They might also like it because it will look better on that one
In respects to art, color was typically used in the realistic, visual representation of subjects. 19th century Impressionism was prominent during the 1870s. The artwork of the Impressionist movement typically placed emphasis on the accurate representation of light. Subject matter tended to be things viewed in nature or ordinary landscapes and, the use of free and visible brushstrokes was common. Color was a tool used simply to represent what was seen. But this traditional idea began to be challenged towards the end of the 19th century. Color became more than just a tool to recreate what’s being seen, and instead the main focus of a piece. Artists such as Seurat, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Matisse used to color to build the images they created.
Individuals throughout history have used art as a form of expressing their emotions, propaganda, or even just a hobby. Every piece of art is unique in its own way. The medium is picked exclusively for the occasion, the artist draws out a particular plan for the piece, and the meaning is executed precisely for that art work only. As viewers, we tend to view and judge a work of art by how aesthetically pleasing it might be. Reverence, a painting by Janet McKenzie, successfully exhibits strong characteristics of aesthetic value.
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