Analysis Of Jules Olitski's Luminous Dawn

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Luminous Dawn (1997) is a lithograph by Jules Olitski. The subject of Luminous Dawn is landscape. A respectable description of the work of art is an impressionistic landscape with a mixture of warm and cool colors. There is an island in the distance; the island looks diminutive yet proportional to the sky. The sky shows several cool colors such as blue and purple, but has slight slivers of grays and warm colors such as gold, pinks, and shows lines of white. The texture in the sky is rough and rigid, while the island shows smooth and soft lines. The medium used for this work is screen print or serigraph in multiple colors. Additionally, I found this interesting; Jules Olitski signed the artwork and dated it in pencil.

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