The painting’s size alone does wonders to draw viewers
The night was cold and with every gust of wind someone shivered. The stars were bright enough to light up the night even without the bright full moon in the sky. I was standing in my normal spot in a short alleyway with a line of five
Once upon a time, a student named Majed started his day as a normal student. He was not the best at his studies, yet he had a passion for art studies. He had an imaginative mind that required time to accomplish his drawings. His art teacher recommended him to enter a national competition in art drawings. Majed was very happy as he was one step closer into reaching his dream.
However, the novel Starlight, written by Richard Wagamese, explores those abnormal sights, sounds and feelings created by nature. The story follows the lives of Starlight and Emmy. Starlight has a deep connection with the land and shows Emmy how to connect with nature as he can. Wagamese uses personification in his world-building of the earth. This makes nature in the novel feel as if it moves as one as if its own character.
Flecks of ash intermingled with snow flitted before him, dancing, twisting, and drifting through the air as they fluttered to earth. The breeze was gentle but biting. His breath, opaque, came in puffs in front of him, clouding his vision from time-to-time. Reflected in his eyes were high flames, golden yellow, bright orange, and brilliant white, and at the very heart of all of these colors, ice blue.
The colors, value, lines, and motion impart a blissful look which this painting portrays this in an exceptional way. The primary colors present are red, seen in some tree leaves, blue in the sky and yellow in the leaves of other trees. Other mixes of colors are also seen. There is an abundance of secondary colors including green in trees and orange in some leaves as well as tertiary colors like yellow-orange, red-orange, and yellow-green in various trees.
It was a cold night, the moon peeking out from behind the clouds. Fireflies twinkled through the sky like stars, the only color in the gray scale forest. A young boy, Dipper as he went by, chased after them, laughing merrily, either not noticing that the world was only grays and blacks, or just not caring. He stopped, a slight smile on his face as he cupped his hands. He made a tiny crack, and peeked through to see if he was lucky enough to score one of the tiny lights.
Target by Jasper Johns stands 66 x 66 in the Art Institute of Chicago (Figure 1). The large size of the painting draws the viewer in. The scale also makes it so the viewer is forced to look at the painting, it is not something that can be ignored. Johns created this piece in 1961, and it was one of many works in his Target series. Target was his last major work in this series and it ended up being the largest as well.
“Stars twinkle above a moonlit valley. A river snakes below. Our view takes us beside the flag of Cinderella’s castle, while it flaps in the wind. Fireworks explode in bright colors above the tower. An arc of shiny dust flies over the castle.
Vincent Van Gogh’s only painting sold (recorded) in his lifetime is the “ Red Vineyard at Arles”. This was sold to Anna Boch, who is an impressionist and a great friend of Van Gogh’s. The Red Vineyard at Arles uses warm colors, unlike most of Van Gogh’s paintings which uses dark/cool colors (grey,blue, black)
He shows his focal areas with warm colors such as the vibrant yellows and reds. Then for the other parts of his art, he uses the absence of colors so that
I say his color choices were bold because he uses a mustard like yellow, a ketchup red, which is what makes the painting stand out, then he uses a pleasing baby blue for the walls. The pairing of yellow with the stark vermilion is the strongest note of color in the picture. These colors, unexpected, isolated notes, lie outside the prevailing luminous scheme of yellow, red, and blue. Within that system are interesting alternations of tones - the yellow and orange of the furniture, the green and yellow of the window: these remind us of primitive pattern of color. Just like his
Along the line of the aforementioned article, the chosen blues and white of the night sky represent the vulnerability of Van Gogh’s feelings and mental state depicting the almost constant depression that plagued
Something I have always been interested in is the production of genetically modified (GM) animals. I think GM animals will be an ongoing trend and something that, evidentially, we will not be able to live without due to the fact of the rapidly increasing birth rate vs. death rate in the world. People are always skeptical when they hear anything relating to GMO anything but the advances in technology are very crucial to our future. GM animals could impact the livestock and pharmaceutical industries.
In art, color is very personal and subjective, and gives different meaning to different people. However, in this Van Gogh piece, it is clear what the colors are used for. The blue found in the man’s overalls suggests uneasiness, melancholy and distress. Blue is unanimously associated with sorrow, and it is clear that in this piece, the subject is suffering immensely. The color is used to compliment the feelings the audience perceives from this artwork.
