Ernie Barnes paintings had the same style from one another with each of paintings which made him a unique painter. However, Ernie Barnes created another painting which was called The Disco. The Disco has similar traits like the Sugar Shack while it has differences too. From observing the two pieces of art they are both great and has a story going on inside the painting.
First, both paintings have the same vibe and colors with each other. From my perspective, I can see the Orangish/Brownish color tone is with both of the pictures. The meaning of Orange stands for outgoing and social communication and the meaning for brown is genial and embracing. By looking up the meaning of those two colors matches the vibe that Ernie barnes had set with
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According to Barnes, “ An artist paints his own reality”. As seen in both pictures, both people and environment has a different scenery with a diverse crowd as you see in the in The disco, however in the Sugar shack, you can only see black people are at this event. Racial Segregation did not end until the late 1960’s which against discrimination. Therefore, the Sugar Shack was before the The Civil Rights Act and The Disco is placed after. In the Sugar shack painting, the environment they are in looks more like a warehouse or a bar rather in the Disco you can see that they are in a club or a bar. What I notice is what Barnes said by him painting his reality is viewers which means the Sugar shack is most likely to be in the south when he was living there, while the Disco is either in the west coast or in the northeastern area when Barnes was traveling around. Also telling by the hairstyles in the Sugar shack it could be in the 1950’s because the women hair are mostly straightened which was popular in that society. However in the Disco, looks to be more in the 1960’s by some women having natural Afros and the others still have their hair …show more content…
Most of the men in the Sugar shack has on a regular t-shirt and pants while in The Disco the Men have an button up shirts, suits, fancy hats and also a variety of different colors .As for the women, they have on different outfits like two pieces and a lot covered up as in the Sugar shack. Next, the type of vibe of each painting is totally different. In the Sugar shack, you can notice that everybody is having fun while it’s different from The disco
Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman were both highly influential realist and naturalist writers. Both authors wrote many pieces of literature which are focused around feminist themes and ideas of life and death. Two of these pieces are “The Yellow Wallpaper”, which is written by Gilman, and “Desiree’s Baby”, which is written by Chopin. Many factors have influenced these writers, such as stressors of their time periods, life experiences, and personal beliefs. Both of these short stories exhibit feminism due to life experiences as well as different viewpoints on death based on personal beliefs.
Each viewer’s interpretation of these two different pieces would be based on their own inner feelings. The reason I chose these two pieces is that I see them as total opposites. Each of these artists chooses to portray an image of a human like object in two different ways. In one side you have Fred Tomaselli using different items to express openness while you have Bettye Saar using her artistic skills to express a struggle of freedom. Since these images defined how Blacks were often perceived by Whites and were often times the source of how Blacks saw themselves.
Ernie Barnes: Research of the Football Artist Ernie Barnes was and still is one of the most popular and well-respected black artists today. Born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, in 1938, during the time the south as segregated, Ernie Barnes was not expected to become a famous artist. However, as a young boy, Barnes would, “often [accompany] his mother to the home of the prominent attorney, Frank Fuller, Jr., where she worked as a [housekeeper]” (Artist Vitae, The Company of Art, 1999). Fuller was able to spark Barnes’ interest in art when he was only seven years old. Fuller told him about the various schools of art, his favorite painters, and the museums he visited (Barnes, 1995, p. 7).
Pop Art was a Modern art movement that emerged durring the mid-twentieth century in both England and America. It first began to gain recognition in the early 1950’s, after about twenty years of Abstract, as artists altered their attention and looked to change. In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, Pop Art became much more popular to the general public and successful for the movement’s artists due to the world growing tired of the repeditive forms of Abstract. Found in the Menil Collection, Seated Woman and Lavender Disaster are two examples of Pop Art. The comparison of these two pieces shows although they differ in medium and subject matter both Seated Woman and Lavender Disaster share common underlying themes possesed by all Pop Art.
The two focal figures are illustrated with complementary colors, the woman 's dress being orange, and the man’s pants being blue. Benton uses these colors to bring life into the painting. The background is made up mostly of earthy colors like, greens, browns, and greys and a light blue for the sky. Benton seems to add white to every color he uses, which gives the painting an opaque look. The deepest hues found in this painting are the blue one the man’s pants and the orange on the woman’s dress, everything else around them looks washed out and Benton does this to emphasize his focal points
There was one symbol in the story that stood out especially in my mind and that was the stripper. She was a tall blonde-haired woman with a tattoo of the American flag on her stomach. I think the stripper symbolized the perfect American white woman, something a black man can strive for all his life to obtain, but would never receive. This was a symbol of the many things that a white man could have whereas a black man could not.
“Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” Art is just that, one of many ways that people can express love. LOVE by Robert Indiana and The Kiss, by the French sculptor, Auguste Rodin are just two sculptures that demonstrate love. LOVE is a structure of the word love in red with the first two letters above with the “O” slanted, and the last two letters bellow the first two, that is displayed publicly in New York City. The Kiss can now be found in the Musée Rodin in Paris, France. The sculpture is of two characters of the opposite sex kissing. The materials and colors used in the two sculptures, as well as the aspect of love that they represent and the history behind the sculptures, The Kiss seems to be more romantic.
Many people on this earth will commit a sin, they find they wish they had not, and 1 in every 5 Americans suffer from a mental illness. In a story named “Young Goodman Brown” by the author Nathaniel Hawthorne, the people in his story have all sinned and meet with the Devil. Then in another story named “The Yellow Wallpaper” by the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman the main character is suffering from a mental illness while her husband, a psychiatrist, tries to help her, but in doing so only makes her condition worse. Throughout both literary texts of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Young Goodman Brown,” the authors show numerous entries of Gothic Literature. And although “Young Goodman Brown” and the “Yellow Wallpaper” share similar Gothic elements, the two stories are very much different.
They all speak profoundly about the various stages of life the African American community had to go through during the Harlem Renaissance. Dreams represented the struggles that happened during slavery. The yellow bars they are behind makes the people in the painting seem as though they are prisoners, which is probably how the slaves felt during their time before they relocated up north. Idyll of the Deep South has a similar representation in the sense that it was prior to the transformation to the north. That painting depicts the work they had to do. The main thing I noticed in the Idyll of the Deep south painting you see an orb of light centered in the photo going up which almost gives you a sense of hope for the future. Lastly, Jeunesse is relevant to the Harlem Renaissance because it represents the life the African Community built once they settled in Harlem. Jeunesse is my favorite piece of art from all of them because to me it represents the rainbow at the end of a storm. I never knew anything about the Harlem Renaissance or the art from that era before researching for this paper. The hardships that they went through, but ended in such a cultured and content place where everyone was embraced as themselves is quite
While it's apparent that artists of the modern age owe much to the artists in the Renaissance, there are many differences between the two. There are some similarities however much of what the artist is expressing, and how they present their concepts are entirely different. Renaissance art appears to be more of a historic record, and heavily influenced by reason and mathematics. Modern art on the other hand tends to convey ideas, and emotions, leaving interpretation to the viewer, instead of being straight forward.
Depression is an illness oftentimes misunderstood by the individual and their family. One symptom of depression is isolation and in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Doris Lessing’s short story, “To Room Nineteen,” the protagonists feel trapped and unfulfilled in their ordinary lives causing them to become depressed. The battle both these characters undergo reveal many compelling similarities, despite the origin and breaking points of their disturbing thoughts and actions. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “To Room Nineteen,” the two protagonists experience isolation from the world and people around them.
Through time due to advancements in material and painting techniques combined with the ever-increasing talent of the artists, paintings representing people have become very lifelike and are extremely realistic. Some painted portraits have as much detail as modern photographs. However, there are also paintings of people that are representational in which the artist is trying to convey a message. This paper discusses the two types through the comparison of two paintings, Abaporu and Portrait of a Lady.
The color variation of this piece embraces a bit of pop art, which indicates the huge influence that Andy Warhol had on Basquiat at the time. A Lot of the clippings are bold but their color schemes are different such as the President Kennedy picture contrast with the superhero clippings contrast within dark red and light red with Kennedy’s picture. The mood of the painting expresses sadness and despair, but eagerness for hope.
Looking at landscape art, especially when painted by one of the masters, many have undoubtedly pondered: what would it be like to live there? Shapes and attention to detail are, of course, important in a painting. However, it is color that draws the eye and inspires the heart. Oscar Wilde, an Irish poet and dramatist, spoke well of this when he noted that, “Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. (qtd in “color”)”. Vincent Ward had a similar understanding of this impact when, in 1998, he directed the movie What Dreams May Come. Looking at this film, one can easily imagine being inside a living painting. The use of color to emphasize the emotional state of a character or event is common in films; nevertheless, Director Ward goes even farther in using color to represent the actual characters themselves. Red is the shade chosen to signify Annie and likewise, blue is used for Chris. Both of these, as will be shown, are accurate in defining these fictitious people. However, it is the profound use of purple in this film that is the true focal point. When mixing red and blue paint, one would find that, after being mixed, they cannot be separated. Likewise, this is true of the life and love these characters build and share. Purple represents the many ways in which Chris and Annie are melded, and joined.
They both do have the main colour that is blue and the artworks share the similar sky. That includes the same shades of blue (and very little green) making up the swirls in the sky. As well as the yellow/white, circular objects that represent the moon, stars, and the glow coming from these celestial objects. There is even the sky in which Van Goth painted included in the poster.