Georgia O Keeffe: A Unified Piece Of Art

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In the painting I chose, you see many different elements of art that come together to form one unified piece. The art I chose to criticize is “Music – Pink and Blue II.” In the painting you see many different colors coming together to form a beautiful piece of art. This painting is an oil painting, with no identifiable shape. The art work is a 35 x 29 1/8. The artist of “Music – Pink and Blue II” is Georgia O’Keeffe. Today, this painting can be found at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. I think people could take this painting to mean many different things. I chose to criticize this piece of art because it is different, it caught my attention, and it made me critically think about its meaning.
This piece of art included many different elements of art. There is no identifiable shape in the painting, in my opinion. The painting “Music – pink and blue II” has an oil texture which creates a positive and soothing affect. The artist also uses a mixture of pink and blue colors to create a soothing and happy feeling to the painting. These colors also help to create valance and unity within the painting. Georgia O’Keeffe used negative shape to convey information to the viewers in a extremely subtle way. The
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To me, the artist is setting a mood of happiness due to the colors the artist chooses to use. In the art work, the artist uses colors that make you feel that the artist is enjoying life. The artist is trying to tell everyone that life is beautiful, for everyone, in many different ways. I believe this is what the artist is saying because they used many different elements such as, color, shape, and line to create a happy mood to the painting. When looking at the painting it was easy for me to determine that people could take the actual meaning of the painting in many different ways, but all the different meanings would be happy due to the elements

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