Art Analysis: The Sweeping Woman

1.“The weeping woman” has art elements line, colour, texture, and shape. The first element that I found was lines. There are different lines in the face and the background. Some of the lines are wavy (which are in the hair) and straight (the yellow lines in the background). However, the most significant amount of lines in this portrait are in the woman’s face and the background. The second art element that I found was colour. The colour I noticed in this artwork are primary and secondary colours. For example yellow, green, brown, blue, and a shade of grey. The colours that are in this painting are comfortable and pleasant colours (you can see the happy colours in the background) Those colours express an emotion to what the women are feeling sadness. My next element is textured. I believe that the background would have a hard rocky feeling to it because it looks like there is a lot of paint on it. But the women's face will have a smooth surface including her hair. The last art element what I observed in this painting are shapes. There are different shapes in this artwork. I saw a variety of shapes in the face of the figure, and I saw mostly triangles. The triangles have different shapes and sizes. In the shoulders of the women, you can tell there are triangles, but they have little lines on it. I also found ovals in the fingernails …show more content…
I think that the principles of art in this a painting are contrast, rhythm, balance. This figure is unbalanced because there is more hair on one side, and a lot of characteristics of the face have more on one side too e.g. the triangles. One of the shoulders has more triangles also. I think that the contrast of the painting is the face because the figures face surrounded by bright colours (primary colours) such as yellow and green. But the women have a grey part in the middle of her face, and that makes the picture stand out more to the audience eyes. The rhythm is the triangles repeating in the face, and that makes a visual