Art Analysis: SOTC By Kathleen Sherin

I chose the piece SOTC by Kathleen Sherin. This art piece is medium, which sort of allows me to view the details and authentically analyze the artwork. The painting currently goes for 500$ at The Print Club of Rochester 85th Annual Member’s Exhibit. It is an average painting that someone will hang in his or her house as decoration. It has a lot to do with lines and shapes, and colors. Cynthia Hawkins presented the first juror award to Kathleen. She was presented with this award for the way she composed her print, the implication of layers and the colors she used. Kathleen used analogous colors in her artwork. She used like blue and green color that are right next to each other on the color wheel, which are cool colors. It created a relaxing approach for when I looked at it. The painting also has lines going in different directions. Kathleen created an abstract art piece.
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The shapes used in the painting are organic shapes. I say these are organic shapes because throughout the whole painting I see growth, like how I stated before in seeing an upside down person in a section of the painting. The primary visual elements of this painting are shape, line, and colors. I say that these are the elements because the art piece has many of these features in it. I see lines shapes that are used as objects, which are radically simplified and still recognized. For example the top part of the art piece has like a corner of a triangle that is seen as a table. Another visual element of this is the lines. The lines are going in many different directions that have me observing the paining. Some of the lines also seem symbolic or expressive to me because she has them bolded or in different colors. Color can be the most personal and deeply felt of elements in art. When it comes to the colors she used I can tell she was warm. She had the colors darkened in some parts of it and lightened in