Alfred Maurer Essay

Alfred Maurer Alfred Maurer is an interesting artist who has two different styles of painting. One style is realism, which is exactly what it sounds like it is. The characters and objects look exactly like they do in real life. The other style is fauvism, which is a rather strange and interesting technique, making the characters unreal. I chose still life, and the two painting I chose were “Two Heads” and “Jeanne.” “Jeanne” is an example of realism, and “Two Heads” is an example of fauvism. In the realistic painting the woman appears to be real. The colors are black and white on the woman's dress, but the hat and background have a touch of shading in a light brown tone. Many lines are used in the painting, her scarf makes up the center line. The woman is standing to left of the center, and the right side is mostly her shadow to add contrast, which is more shading. The value gets darker at the bottom of

The balance, which what draws your eye to the work of art. In these two paintings the balance is very different. In the realistic painting the centerline is what draws your attention, and then you start looking for details on both sides. In the “Two Heads” painting, again I started looking in the middle and then errily moved from side to side. The pattern in the “Jeanne” pattern is the shading and the, and the basic white of Jeanne herself. In the “Two Heads” the pattern is the repetition of the faces. The pattern is the repetition in the artwork, and it is easy in both to recognize that each of these has a specific pattern to draw your attention Rhythm is the way objects are placed next to each other. The scarf in “Jeanne” shows the rhythm, because the placement draws your eyes to the rest of the artwork because it paces you to take in the what the artist is showing you. In the “Two Heads” the rhythm is the two heads and looking at the contrast, and being drawn into what they are doing, looking at, or