Analysis Of A Rural Landscape And A Country Life

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Art is an expressive form of creativity and expression. Art involves the basic elements and principles that aid to form paintings, sculptures, and other forms of artwork.
This work of art analyzed in this essay is a depiction of a rural landscape and a country lifestyle as shown in the painting. The image details a long, yellow, grassy plains and in the distance are three houses. Painted on a canvas horizontally, the scene details a countryside that emits a desolate, yet hopeful mood. The artwork is a two-dimensional, which has its limitations, having fewer points of perspective and planes which could better express the ideas of the artist. The piece of art visibly portrays and simplifies a view of the rural setting by combining meaning and …show more content…

The implied sunlight is natural that has an illusion of coming through the clouds, the reality of the sunlight seems to dry out the land. Yet, it symbolizes the overcoming of the end of a drought on the rural crop lands. The colors of neutral tones are used predominately throughout the landscape. The brown neutral-toned houses are surrounded by wisps of yellow, overgrown, grass which seem to represent the destruction that mankind has caused, in turn, is suppressing nature and holding back the potential beauty it could unleash. The dull grass and trees lack vivid colors and present a lackluster mood. Yet, the yellow grass draws you to the horizon of the painting. This seems to resemble the hopefulness of a new crop in the dry crop land. The yellow grass shows the harsh results of a drought that has been sprinkled with blue horizontal streaks. The blue horizontal streaks demonstrate puddles of water as if it has recently rained. The blue color emits a feeling of calmness as if the uneasiness of the drought season has been lifted. The colors lack blending and create a blunt contrast appearance. The dark shadow in the bottom right corner mysteriousness and an ominous feeling of an omniscient presence. The form the artist chose to work with demonstrated an organic form with a combination of a geometric form because of the three structures at the focal point of the painting (DeWitte, et al., 2015). The artist made this choice to show the results of a drought caused by the

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