1) Albrecht Durer, Melancholia I, 1514, engraving.
The expressive qualities of complexity, in this painting, are given by the combination of stippling, hatching, and crosshatching, they were also used to create texture and depth. Horizontal, diagonal and vertical lines are present in this painting associated with distance and the distant horizon. In this artwork, the artist used both, straight lines and contour lines, and a mixture of shades. I found that the areas that are clearer have very few lines. And the almost black areas are completely filled with lines.
2) Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1614, oil on canvas
In this painting the main scene is strongly illuminated, especially the figure of Judith is emphasizing her protagonist, we can see that the other figures are not illuminated equally while the rest of the scene is submerged in a full darkness. I can also observe that the luminosity and the darkness are reinforced generating a chiaroscuro and that the fund disappears. The high contrast of light and dark are used to dramatize the scene. Likewise, light, which refers to the way in which it is used in theater, marks the course of the painting generating an ascending diagonal. This diagonal arises in the corner of the lower left quadrant and ascends towards …show more content…
I observe mostly intermediate warm sunlight hues such as red-orange and cool “shadow” hues blue-green. I also see small hints of primary hues such as red and orange. Matisse combined several shades of yellows and ochres that contrast with the pink of the bodies; he also creates the trees sort of like stage in the theater, where the trees show the contrast of green and red. The artist is playing with the colors where the orange, the red, the yellow in their hue just opposed with the greens on the rights and the purple grass on the
The expressive qualities of complexity, in this painting, are given by the combination of stippling, hatching, and crosshatching, they were also used to create texture and depth. Horizontal, diagonal and vertical lines are present in this painting associated with distance and the distant horizon. In this artwork, the artist used both, straight lines and contour lines, and a mixture of shades. I found that the areas that are clearer have very few lines. And the almost black areas are completely filled with lines.
2) Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1614, oil on canvas
In this painting the main scene is strongly illuminated, especially the figure of Judith is emphasizing her protagonist, we can see that the other figures are not illuminated equally while the rest of the scene is submerged in a full darkness. I can also observe that the luminosity and the darkness are reinforced generating a chiaroscuro and that the fund disappears. The high contrast of light and dark are used to dramatize the scene. Likewise, light, which refers to the way in which it is used in theater, marks the course of the painting generating an ascending diagonal. This diagonal arises in the corner of the lower left quadrant and ascends towards …show more content…
I observe mostly intermediate warm sunlight hues such as red-orange and cool “shadow” hues blue-green. I also see small hints of primary hues such as red and orange. Matisse combined several shades of yellows and ochres that contrast with the pink of the bodies; he also creates the trees sort of like stage in the theater, where the trees show the contrast of green and red. The artist is playing with the colors where the orange, the red, the yellow in their hue just opposed with the greens on the rights and the purple grass on the