Interior at Gordon Square was created by Duncan Grant during 1914-1915, Collage on board, 76.4*64.2cm. I could feel that I was surrounded by warm and peace when I was looking at Duncan Grant’s work Interior at Gordon Square. It makes me relax. The painting was constituted by several collage which have different shapes and different colors. This painting basically describes a scene in a room. In the middle of the painting, there is a sofa with a cushion on it, besides the sofa which is the upper part of the painting is a window, and there is a door on the right side of the window. Through the window, there is a square outside which is filled with green.
The first reason that the painting makes me feel warm and peace is the color. A large area of using warm color in the painting makes the piece become warm tone. Interior at Gordon Square is a painting using plenty of color blocks such as blackish green, lemon-yellow, grass-green, khaki, red ochre and yellow-green. Moreover, the board’s color is light yellow. Besides, there are some cold colors in this painting such as Prussian blue and dark blue, those dark shades in this painting make the whole picture sedater. The combination of the warm colors and sedate atmosphere makes me feel peace and warm.
The scale is the second reason why this painting makes me feeling calmness. Interior at Gordon Square is a 76.4*64.2cm painting, which is a human-size painting. When the size of work is bigger, the visual impact becomes stronger.
The lighting of the picture is very natural and comforting. The artist painted the setting to be a bright sunny day. The execution of a person should be a sad,
The Oxbow is done in a very large scale, giving the viewer a sense of actually being in the landscape and increasing its affect. The 4’ 3 ½” x 6’4” size of the painting gives it a sense of life and its size pulls you into the drama that is The Oxbow and allows every minute detail within the painting to be seen. The proportions of this painting are all pretty accurate and give the work its naturalistic quality.
I selected this painting because the colour contrast of the pink dress against the dark background caught my eye. I also found the expression of the young woman to be interesting.
This painting really makes me feel happy and overjoyed. The bright and vibrant colors really stand out to me. In my opinion, there isn’t really a focal point in this piece because the entire painting is the focal point. The subject of this piece is a landscape of the Rocky Mountain National Park, specifically, Longs Peak. There are clouds and a blue sky
This painting appears to take place either at either dusk or dawn, when the sun is at the horizon. Likely it is dusk, as the setting appears to be in the Northern Hemisphere and the snow in the picture residing on the left hand side of fence would suggest it has yet to melt, so the sun would be setting in the west, or on the right. So the viewer, as well as the subject, is facing south. This affects the painting in several ways. The lighting is very dramatic, the middle ground being very much more lighted than the foreground and background, therefore the colors are more saturated than the foreground and background. Greens, browns and greys are used a lot in this piece and makes it very muddy. The house really does stand out against the painting because of the contrast of lighting.
Obviously, lots of squares and rectangles are used in this painting. It helps the flow of the painting. When you notice one square or rectangle in the painting, you notice another one close by, which leads your eye around the room back
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The feel of the picture lends to emotions of unease and recognition of sexual innuendo. The colors of the painting are vibrant, but for the most part are dark. The heavy tones and shades of the colors are well balanced throughout the piece. It can be noted that the brightest shades of color are found on areas depicting the actual woman. In areas that are understood as landscape, the colors are more dreary and create a sense of instability. Even Hess observes that the
Color is highly evident in this painting, and helps to draw the viewer’s eye to certain places in the painting. The café is yellow, and adds a boisterous feeling to that section of the piece. The yellow light spills onto the street and walls of the town, creating bright colors and drawing the eye. The sky and town use dark colors to illustrate nighttime, although the bright spots of the stars cause the viewer to look to the sky.
Another attracting feature of this painting is that it appeals to your emotional side. Personally, I have an elder sister and we share a connection that is really rare. I have a picture of her, holding me as a baby with a huge smile on her face and this painting ultimately reminds me of that; giving me nothing but pleasant memories. That is what William is trying to do here. He uses the soothing and caring facial expression of the young lady together with the tenderness of the sleeping baby to capture his viewers and appeal to their caring and emotional side.
When one looks at the painting White light, an array of colors spring off the canvas and permeate one’s senses. The primary and intense color of red is softened by the primary colors of yellow and blue. While the tertiary color of green subtly takes its place among the hues to give some balance. The perceivable tones of black and white add value and seem to give some
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The distressed ship is the biggest in the painting, making it the center of the piece. The artist drew the two other ships small to make them seem distant and another small boat close to the damaged ship. The scale of the painting itself is pretty big; it’s 36 inches long and 53 inches wide.
Secondly, the light and colors help to enhance the piece. Due to the oil painting,
When I saw the painting for the first time it grabbed my attention. At first I thought it was the beautiful colors that attracted me to the painting, but it was more. In the picture the shadowy men look scared. They looked as though they were trying to run away from something and this lake that forms into this river that is surrounded by tall grass is the way out, or at least a place to hide until the coast is clear. During that time in my life I felt