Art Analysis: Gray Color

This artwork gives visual representation to immaterial feelings. The way it does that is by dulling every color besides the girl’s tears. It shows that she sees the world in a gray color because all of her happiness or color is gone. The color flowing out of her is showing that any good feeling she has is leaving her and she is succumbing to her depression. Her dress is sagging limply off of her to show the sad and heavy emotions she’s going through. The dress is a polka dot dress, which is normally thought of as something you wear when you are happy or going out to a special event. The dulling of it suggests that maybe something happened to her when she was supposed to be having a good time. Based on the picture, we can figure out her feelings …show more content…
The reason that I say this is because the world the girl is in is just different shades of gray and realistically, people cannot cry multi-colored tears. Though she is represented as a human, the way her face is not shown could also be considered a representation of a pure emotion instead of a human feeling an emotion. Naturally, a human could not cry enough tears to make a pool around their knees and even if they could, they would evaporate before getting the chance. The small amount of dark space you see shows how tiny and insignificant the girl is feeling. While the darkening of the gray near her indicates that the darkness is coming from her and radiating outwards. It makes it seem that if the model looked towards her left, she’d see a brighter world. The dark shading around the girl is also crisscrossed or sporadic. It brings a feeling of edginess or a small sense of urgency to the picture. What I find very interesting is the 4 lines of color sliding down her arms that combine and make the complete colors of a rainbow. Though everything is in gray, you can still make out the shape of her hair, the creases of the dress, and part of her ear sticking out from the main lines. Other than the emotional value and dulling of the colors, there aren’t many other things to look at, like shapes. The polka dots are not perfect circles but they help to show the unnatural and unhinged representation of the girl’s