“The Coal Miners Wife” by Ben Shahn is a really great painting. The artist did a great job when he made this painting. There were a lot of things about it caught my attention. First the content of this painting is very well thought of. It takes someone who has a grasp of art, to understand the message the artist is trying to get to us. The painting tells the tale of a woman. Who’s husband has had died working at the coal mines. It is easy to verify this by the two men outside who have bought her the man’s Jacket. I also feel like that the message the painting was trying to send, was that too many men are dying in the coal mines, they need to find a way to make it safer.
Shahn was a great artist. He did an excellent job when it came to balancing the content, and form of the painting. The elements and principals of this painting are very well put together. The lines were used very well on this piece, and they guided me the whole way through the painting. When my eyes seen the painting I was immediately drawn to the woman who was standing there with the tears in her eyes. Then the line...
They are durable and inexpensive comparing to canvas.The artwork shows the happy emotions and realism with his interpretation of his wife and himself. Color theme of the painting was blue and background/negative space is dark blue. His right side of face is dark blue to show the shadow of his face and distance perspective. He used the black line which is stained glass like to separate the negative space/positive space. He used dark blue green for negative space on the Masonite board. Texture of oil painting is rough and we can trace of the paint brush stroke. They give the vivid or liveliness that he was well known of. The figures are realistic and impressionism style rather than photogenic. The title of paining and sub title of paining itself tell the story of artwork. Esther looks very relaxed, content and happy. Rattner looks happy , passionate, proud of himself as well. He certainly looks overcame the grief of death of his first wife. This painting gives warm feeling even though the theme color is cool color blue because of two figures of face expressions and relaxed body
Wayne, transforms this painting into a three dimensional abstract piece of art. The focal point of the painting are the figures that look like letters and numbers that are in the front of the piece of art. This is where your eyes expend more time, also sometimes forgiving the background. The way the artist is trying to present this piece is showing happiness, excitement, and dreams. Happiness because he transmits with the bright colours. After probably 15 minutes on front of the painting I can feel that the artist tries to show his happiness, but in serene calm. The excitement that he presents with the letters, numbers and figures is a signal that he feels anxious about what the future is going to bring. Also in the way that the colors in the background are present he is showing that no matter how dark our day can be always will be light to
The face of the portrait is detailed, and more naturally painted than the rest of the composition. However, the left iris exceeds her eye and extends past the normal outline. The viewer can see every single brush stroke resulting in a unique approach to the capturing human emotion. The streaky texture combines with the smoothness flow of the artist’s hand creating contrast between the hair and the face. The woman’s hair is painted with thick and chunky globs of paint. The viewer can physically see the paint rising from the canvas and flowing into the movement of the waves of hair. Throughout the hair as well as the rest of the portrait Neel abandons basic painting studies and doesn’t clean her brush before applying the next color. Because of the deliberate choice to entangle the colors on the brush it creates a new muddy palate skewed throughout the canvas. Moving from the thick waves of hair, Neel abandons the thick painting style of the physical portrait and moves to a looser more abstract technique to paint the background. Despite the lack of linear perspective, Neel uses a dry brush technique for the colorful streaks in the background creating a messy illusion of a wall and a sense of space. The painting is not clean, precise, or complete; there are intentional empty spaces, allowing the canvas to pear through wide places in the portrait. Again, Neel abandons
My initial thought about this painting is that it seems to be incorrect. The reflection in the mirror shows that the lady is looking in the direction of the man standing in front of her. If the lady is looking at the man their reflections should not be off to the side. The second observation is the lady is sad or disappointed and is looking past the man standing in front of her. My last observation is there are three sections from left to right; bottles and the audience, the lady, and the reflections of the lady and man. The most interesting concept about this artwork is how the reflections seem to be inaccurate. If the bottles and the reflections of the lady and the man standing in front of her are at an angle, then why are the vertical lines perpendicular to each other?
The composition of this painting forces the eye to the woman, and specifically to her face. Although the white wedding dress is large and takes up most of the woman’s figure, the white contrasts with her face and dark hair, forcing the viewer to look more closely into the woman’s face. She smokes a cigarette and rests her chin on her hands. She does not appear to be a very young woman and her eyes are cast down and seem sad. In general, her face appears to show a sense of disillusionment with life and specifically with her own life. Although this is apparently her wedding day, she does not seem to be happy.
The mixed reaction I have towards the painting is because, first off, I still wouldn’t know what is really behind it or what it’s trying to tell us without looking at it from a distance. When I looked at it from a computer desktop I could see a shoe, a mountai...
A piece of art is analyzed by the viewer which is presented at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston Texas. This particular piece is displayed in the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait. The item number is Inv. no. LNS 106 MS. The title provided by the museum informs the viewer that, this is a 17th century album page from Mughal dominions, India; which is made with Ink, colors, and gold on a paper. The painter used these materials and the overall theme of the art work to convey the message to the viewer that, the Mughals king is braver, powerful, and wealthy. In this painting a Mughal king or prince is hunting lions in the wild with his men. To show the importance of the scene, the painter put three rectangular borders around the artwork. Each border is of different size, color, and texture.
“Speechless” is a black and white photo. To me the choice of colors from the artist already shows the type of tone that they want to set. Typically black and white photos set a more dramatic serious tone to me. The photo appears to be very heavy. The photo has Farsi text written all over the woman 's face along with a gun to the side of her face. The setting in “Speechless” by Shirin Neshat is effective an plays a very important role in creating the atmosphere and theme of the artwork. Without knowing the background of the artwork the person viewing it from the outside perspective might be a little confused with whats going on. The artist however has incorporated cultural aspects and cues to make the audience more aware of what is going on. In the artwork there is a woman covered with a veil. You can see half of her face and see that she has distinct characteristics that can lead the audience to interfere she is of middle eastern descent. Dark hair, dark eyes, thick dark eyebrows. She is also covered in various amounts of Farsi/Arabic text that also give cultural cues to the overall message that the artist is trying to convey. Giving these cultural cues to the audience give the audience context to the overall message of the piece. The character of this piece is the woman portrayed in the piece. She is the main part of the artwork as everything else surrounds her. The symbols in the piece extend
She transformed his art work into her own style and touch. Her art work is has introduced a new form of classical art work. She speaks through her art sculptures. She is a living women, with deep roots to humanity and feeling towards relationship, search of love and untold stories of human behaviors. Her work is consisting of representational bronze sculptures, paintings and drawings of the human body which tell the stories of our short coming, betrayal, selfishness, greed and materialistic approach. Her important art themes include display of renewal, self-discovery, liberation, confinement, freedom, balance, consciousness, spirituality, time, and evolution and other human behaviors
Liu encountered these families during her four years in the countryside. The painting depicts two men, perhaps a father and son, working together to pull a boat upstream. Although the boat is not in the picture, one can sense the weight from the postures, effort and strength of the men. Two men are contrasted by small images of the fragile, precious snuff bottles and the delicate dragonfly in the corner, both traditional Chinese symbols. The painting shows the 2 men in perfect rhythm with the appearance of sweat falling from their efforts. The positive focus is the 2 men in the picture with many negative white and dark colors. I believe the artist wanted you to feel the darkness and the sadness of the men as they did what that had to do to survive. You can almost feel the pain as they stress their bodies to the limits. I was truly intrigued by this piece of work, and would love to learn more about the artist’s
Now, going to the principles of design process of the art work he used empahsis really well becasue he let the stars of the art work take over the whole thing to draw the eye srtaight to the sky. Along with repetition the art work in the sky continues the same patterns with the way the line match and never stop with the wind and all of the stars are created the same way. The whole painting just kind of has a flow to it. The movemnt part of the art seems off to me becasue i see a huge strucutre in the middle of the painting covering most of the bottom left corner, but i truly cant make out what it is but i feel as if its a flame from something pervious burning. The contrast and the variety of Starry Night is well used because the art work is
When you put all these aspects put together with my interpretation of what is happening in the painting, a sense of calmness and security was constructed for me. No matter what this couple may be going through at the end of the day they still lean on each other for support. The complementary colors symbolized a sensation of strength between them, the balance of the composition created a stability characteristic, and the smooth and fluid brush strokes created a tranquil energy between the
This art work is very controversial in my opinion. When first looking at the subject matter of the art, I had no emotion towards the piece. Just looking at it I just see a representation of the female genitals. Although After discovering the content of the piece I felt proud. The piece made me feel proud and powerful for being a woman, looking around the table at all the different names of women who have made so many great accomplishments throughout history.
Gubar’s piece on female creativity allows the book The Good Women of China to be read through a more critical lens. Women in the piece are consistently taking a back seat to their stories until they are given the opportunity to share and be told that their experience is important. What Xin Ran offers to these women is a change to be heard. It allows them to be the painter and their tormentors the subject. One woman in particular, Jin Shuai, talks critically of the world she lives in and offers a modern insight into the tragic backbone of the other women’s stories.
The lines, mostly curved, are in great harmony details. The color from both outside and inside could be changed as the light from the sun moves. The flowers and Koran written on the walls and the gate give people who visiting wondering of what is that means. As the visitors walked pass each area, I think they would imagine of what each areas mean from the story of Taj Mahal. From the video, I think some sights of Taj Mahal create sorrowing sights.