Out Of My Studio Door Analysis

George Inness was a successful American landscape painter and one of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century. He painted beautiful paintings throughout his career. Inness painted, Out of My Studio Door, Montclair in 1878-79 and Montclair and Untitled (Mountain Storm) in 1848-50. Both paintings are representational and landscapes. In Inness paining of Out of My Studio Door, Montclair he created a connection between heaven and earth. Inness had particular interest that everything in nature had a correspondently relationship with something spiritual. Innes’s Untitled (Mountain Storm), he was inspired by the idea of consciousness as a "stream of thought", as well as his ideas concerning how mystical experience shapes one's

Inness uses overlapping to give the viewer an illusion that one object is in front of the other in space. For example, in Out of My Studio Door, Montclair Inness uses overlap by making the two trees on the left larger, giving us the impression that it is closer. The smaller the trees get throughout the painting gives is the illusion they are further away. There is not much going on throughout the painting making it look organized. On the other hand, Inness Untitled (Mountain Storm) also uses overlap by making the larger objects like the front trees and rocks larger unlike the trees and bushes smaller in the back, making them three dimensional. There is more going on in this painting since the river path way guides our eyes to the back as the sky seems to get darker. Color plays a huge role in the both paintings, both painting are representational showing true life colors. In Out of My Studio Door, Montclair he uses warm impasto and secondary colors. There are only several colors used such as different shades of greens, brown, and gray. Unlike, in Untitled (Mountain Storm) he has more choice in warm colors such as, orange gray for the sky, different shades of greens, browns, and grays. He provides the colors very delicately throughout his