Erin Allbritton
Professor Andrea Beaky
ART119
3 March 2015
Mary Cassatt was artist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 22, 1944. She was known to be a famous artist, painter, and a printmaker. As she grew up, she learned to experience art in many different ways. When Mary turned 16, she wanted to be an artist and she wanted to make a lifetime career out of it. In order to become an artist, she attended Philadelphia’s own Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. As her career as an artist took off, she became one of the many leading artists in a movement called the Impressionist movement. On some of her artwork, Mary became well known to have used oil on canvas. When she became an adult, she settled in Paris, France to live for the rest …show more content…
(http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/13758)
The artwork itself was oil on canvas. But the colors were so realistic and exquisite because of the color schemes that Mary had chosen. For color wise, Mary chose her colors very carefully. Purple, white, and green became her main color focuses in this specific artwork. A lot of value, hue, intensity, secondary, complimentary, and optical color mixing were combined with the colors in the artwork. Using purple caused Mary to use primary colors (Red and blue) to make the color purple in order to add brightness to it. She then did the same thing with yellow and blue as her second primary color choices to make …show more content…
For purple and green, optical color mixing was easy. With white, optical color mixing wasn’t easy as Mary thought. But the colors were in the right order and were done the right way. With the color white, Mary had to experiment with the primary and the complimentary colors to get the white that she wanted. As for the design, that became fun for Mary to do. Mary had done a lot of contour and implied lines to get everything placed in the right way. As for shapes, Mary wanted the shapes to be on the lilacs and on the vase itself. The shapes caused a lot of positive interaction with the colors and a lot of negative interactions. As for the values, they were combined with the colors and the shapes that were chosen. It depended if sharp edges were used or dull edges in the artwork.
Mary had to also make a decision using depth and space into her artwork. Many pieces of artwork show a lot of space and depth. But in the Lilacs in a Window however did not show much depth. However, the artwork did show a lot of space being used on the outside and on the
Professor Andrea Beaky
ART119
3 March 2015
Mary Cassatt was artist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 22, 1944. She was known to be a famous artist, painter, and a printmaker. As she grew up, she learned to experience art in many different ways. When Mary turned 16, she wanted to be an artist and she wanted to make a lifetime career out of it. In order to become an artist, she attended Philadelphia’s own Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. As her career as an artist took off, she became one of the many leading artists in a movement called the Impressionist movement. On some of her artwork, Mary became well known to have used oil on canvas. When she became an adult, she settled in Paris, France to live for the rest …show more content…
(http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/13758)
The artwork itself was oil on canvas. But the colors were so realistic and exquisite because of the color schemes that Mary had chosen. For color wise, Mary chose her colors very carefully. Purple, white, and green became her main color focuses in this specific artwork. A lot of value, hue, intensity, secondary, complimentary, and optical color mixing were combined with the colors in the artwork. Using purple caused Mary to use primary colors (Red and blue) to make the color purple in order to add brightness to it. She then did the same thing with yellow and blue as her second primary color choices to make …show more content…
For purple and green, optical color mixing was easy. With white, optical color mixing wasn’t easy as Mary thought. But the colors were in the right order and were done the right way. With the color white, Mary had to experiment with the primary and the complimentary colors to get the white that she wanted. As for the design, that became fun for Mary to do. Mary had done a lot of contour and implied lines to get everything placed in the right way. As for shapes, Mary wanted the shapes to be on the lilacs and on the vase itself. The shapes caused a lot of positive interaction with the colors and a lot of negative interactions. As for the values, they were combined with the colors and the shapes that were chosen. It depended if sharp edges were used or dull edges in the artwork.
Mary had to also make a decision using depth and space into her artwork. Many pieces of artwork show a lot of space and depth. But in the Lilacs in a Window however did not show much depth. However, the artwork did show a lot of space being used on the outside and on the