Analysis Of New Refrigerator By Antonio Lopez Garcia

The painting “New Refrigerator” by Antonio Lopez Garcia is a modern still life painting. It was painted with oil paint on canvas in 1991-94, it’s about 7ft x 6ft tall. This painting seem very realistic with all the food in the refrigerator. The refrigerator is in an empty dramatically white room. You can see the light reflecting off the white titled floor and also the wall. Also there is a white translucent bag with a little bit of dirty white, on top of the fridge. It’s hard to distinguish what exactly is the object since he used too much white in his painting. When you glance at the painting it looks very detailed but if you stare at it for quite a while you can see that the food in the refrigerator is not very detail, like to bottles on the bottom of the door. The painting is transformed between subjective and objective, between the material world and he artist’s mental or emotional conception of the world. …show more content…
It was painted with watercolor and charcoal on paper, its 16 ft. x 19 ft. It’s located in Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. This painting is totally the opposite of Lopez’s painting. The Blue Sea is very hard to distinguish what is really the picture here. They are many colors, such as purple (or blue) yellow, brown and black on a white paper. It you can see where the watercolor was used in the painting. The watercolors look very different from the charcoal, the charcoal gives the painting like a type of texture. John Marin used the charcoal in the rocks and also in the parts where he wanted to have an illusion of the boat. If you take a glance at the painting it is like a big mess of colors but if you study the painting you can kind of distinguish that there is a picture of the sea, and the charcoal help to see the boat and see where the sea is getting