The Artwork
Between all the Painting showed in the two slides of Principles and Elements of Design, I decide to describe “The Scream”, painted by Edward Munch.
Painted during the year 1893, this artwork is located at the National gallery in Oslo, Norway.
Personal objective description
Starting from the sky, coloured in red, orange and yellow with a few lines of blue/green, it seems static. The yellow lake reflects the light from the sky and the surrounding (on the right I can see a small village if I am not wrong) and it seems lifeless. There are also two boats in the lake made out with straight lines in an “ocean” of curves, and for colouring mountains, the artist used cold colours. Looking at the bottom part, the hand railing is made with red and black and it gives a wooden effect to the viewer. Meanwhile the street is painted with a mix of
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This person also is coloured in blue, giving the impression of fear, depression and sadness.
ELEMENTS OF DESIGN
Line
The bottom part of Munch’s Painting is made with straight lines to draw the dock and the hand railing in order to create depth, and the rest of the painting (mountains, sky, lake, town) is made out with all curved lines.
Shape
This Artwork has a bi-dimensional aspect and I can’t see depth in it (of course it’s my personal thought and I can be wrong). The shape of the screamer and the background are organic, in fact his/her body looks like a tree that is moved by the wind. The hand railing and the floor instead, have a geometric shape.
Form
There is a lack of a combination between the shape and the value in order to give a three dimensional effect to the painting. Also, is not very clear how far are the lake or the mountains and vice
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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.
He used heavy brush strokes. Canal’s attention to detail is phenomenal, the building is true to life, the people walking, men working on their boats. Dogs playing. A man on the rail on the second floor of the building. In the distance one can see the double domed church. Canal used colors of his day. This piece of artwork is asymmetrical balance. The “View of the Molo” has rhythm since it has two focal points that pulls your eye to the foreground and to the background.
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The colours used in the artwork are earthy tones with various browns, greens, yellows, blues and some violet. These colours create a sense of harmony on the...
I can identify mostly organic shapes in the work and don’t seem to find any geometric shapes. The drops of paint in the bottom left corner and at the top have no visible shape to them, neither do any of the stains. I believe the artist was more about the flat shapes specifically on the canvas, because the canvas itself appeals to the three-dimensional mass. I see a strong figure-ground relationship between the paint splatters and the color stained background. I think the artist did this for a certain effect on the painting.
For example, he uses texture, color and organic forms to make the landscape look as real as possible. Most of the shapes are formed by shifts in colors and line because the canvas are two-dimensional. The viewer can observe that the painting is dominated by greys, browns, ochers, and other natural colors such as green and yellow to give the scene a more nature-like look. All the components and objects painted in this piece appear to have the same texture and color as the ones found in real life, such as rocks suggesting a rough hard texture and clouds being soft, which probably means that Vernet took in consideration real landscapes and places he might have seen in real life. While using different shades of grey, and painting dark clouds, Vernet was able to convince that a storm was approaching but he also decided to add source of light coming from the upper left corner by using a golden yellow color to create a sense of warmth, which creates a nice contrast between the light and the coldness from the overall shadows that seem to dominate the artwork, creating variety; however, the repetition of colors such as greys gave the whole piece a sense of unity and they also express the shadows of a stormy day. We
...technique of fluid in the brush strokes, which lead to an impression of blurry. The spots of soft color combine with the color of the figures, which shows bright light of beams through the trees. He blends colors in the background that appear to be people dancing. The lack of outlines is a traditional Impressionist technique.
The painting has realistic 3 dimensional space by the use of linear perspective and chiaroscuro. It also looks to be 2 dimensional as well, because it almost looks like some influence on the Japanese print, like flat patches of paint. The lines converge from the edges of the paint to the center letting off the effect of a background and a foreground. It looks as though the trash is in the foreground and the man is in the background. In the back of the painting, it is darker which also adds to the effect of the 3 dimensional space.
The painting has an order and there are different shapes and angles. Rectangular shape is main trend around this piece, including the wooden chest, the leg rest and the canvass. Also things overlap, creating the illusion of the shape look closer to viewer than the shape behind it. The example in this piece would be the chair on which Adelaide Labille Guiard sits be close to viewer than the girls behind it. This adds depth to the space. Also due to linear perspective girls behind the chair are smaller due to being farther away.
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...f the shadows is sprinkled with the orange of the ground, and the blue-violet of the mountains is both mixed with and adjacent to the yellow of the sky. The brushstrokes that carry this out are inspired by the Impressionists, but are more abundant and blunter than those an Impressionist would use.
...rivers of paint rush across the dark black ground, creating writhing intertwining shapes that suggest figures in a landscape setting, but without any specificity whatsoever.