Thomas Hart Benton painted The Wreck of the Ole 97 uses a variety of elements and principles to highlight the importance and the realism in his piece. Benton uses lines to create the train,the people, and the plants which are mostly made from irregular lines.Because he painted shapes with irregular lines the figures are not geometric but organic especially the people and plants. He does paint few regular lines like the track, the train and the wagon. The track is made from one geometric shape, the rectangle. The train not as a whole, but the shapes that form the outside look of the train vary many geometric figures, it contains circles for the wheels and squares for the windows. The wagon is made from just geometric shapes, rectangles
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The hues of blue that Benton uses are tint and are to fill in the sky and the woman’s dress. The orange-browns are for the roads, parts of the hill in the background, the train for the windows and on top of where the smoke comes out of the train when burning coal.The black is used for the train and different shades of black for the end of the smoke with pieces of white.The white part is highlighting the smoke. He also does this for the falling woman, the plants, and the train. When there’s highlight there tends to be shadows and in his work there is. As the woman is falling there a shadow on the ground,the plants are brighter on the right part of it,but as the viewer’s eyes move to the left the view will notice how the plant is no longer as bright, as well for the train because Benton made his paintings light source on the right.Since it’s on the right the subjects that are facing the light source contain both highlight and shadow going from right to left which makes the painting look more real to the viewer. The smoke starts with orange-brown but then is added with black making a transition in the painting.The white for the clouds, horse, and this other type of smoke that’s coming out of another part of the
The hues of blue that Benton uses are tint and are to fill in the sky and the woman’s dress. The orange-browns are for the roads, parts of the hill in the background, the train for the windows and on top of where the smoke comes out of the train when burning coal.The black is used for the train and different shades of black for the end of the smoke with pieces of white.The white part is highlighting the smoke. He also does this for the falling woman, the plants, and the train. When there’s highlight there tends to be shadows and in his work there is. As the woman is falling there a shadow on the ground,the plants are brighter on the right part of it,but as the viewer’s eyes move to the left the view will notice how the plant is no longer as bright, as well for the train because Benton made his paintings light source on the right.Since it’s on the right the subjects that are facing the light source contain both highlight and shadow going from right to left which makes the painting look more real to the viewer. The smoke starts with orange-brown but then is added with black making a transition in the painting.The white for the clouds, horse, and this other type of smoke that’s coming out of another part of the