Andre Derain's The Turning Road

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Andre Derain piece titled The Turning Road (L’Estaque, 1906) is a famous work of an Avant grade art movement. It represents the village of L’Estaque. Frederic Edwin Church piece titled Twilight in the Wilderness (1860) was made near the mount Katahdin in Maine. It is the beautiful view of a tremendous sunset. He sketched the painting before two years of painting this original version. The work in Andre Derain artwork is a colorful presentation describing the village life. However, in the Frederic Edwin Church artwork is more natural which describes the painting of the real life. The value of the Andre Derain painting has more lightness and the one by Frederic Edwin Church is more darkness. This painting can be described in Formal and Stylistic analysis. Using the formal analysis, the Church’s painting is more as dramatic effect because of the complementary colors. The colors of the sky and the reflection can describe his awe and respect for American landscape. The intense red-orange clouds complement swathes of the blue-green evening sky, giving magnificence to a quiet landscape. The other painting by Derain used more new and brighter colored pigments made available by advances in …show more content…
So, there are many colors used that are same in both work. So, the green and red color form the hue. The shape of both painting is two-dimensional. Both are mostly like related to the nature like trees, water, mountains, sky, clouds, and sun. As of this, it has a variety of different elements in the both of the painting. The artwork of Andre Derain is related to real life which is like there are people and houses in the painting. The work by Frederic Edwin Church is symmetrical because if you divided the painting it still going to be same. And the Andre Derain artwork is asymmetrical. The colors used in both painting which are bright in Andre Derain and Light-dark in Frederic Edwin Church that creates Chairosaro in the

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