In her painting The Green Chair, Schille predominately utilizes organic shapes. The dominant subject, or figure of this composition is the little girl staring at ‘you’. In the background, lies what it seems to be a very bright orange wall. The girl sitting on the ground and the chair, lack detail in comparison to the little girl. The little girl’s outfit, accessories, and most importantly her eyes are more defined. The other girl lacks facial features, is hard to see the object she is holding. The colors used by Schille artwork are mostly comprised of most of the full spectrum of colors. The color scheme used in this painting comes close to be a tetradic color scheme as it includes both warm and cool colors. In this painting, there is not a balance between unity and variety. The components such as the little girl, and the pacifier belong to one another. Variety is not really present in this artwork; the only variety that I can observe is the difference in age and actions of each girl. Schille creates asymmetrical balance in her art, the right side and left side are not the same. On the left, there is not much activity going on, the background occupies the majority of the space. On the right side, there is more movement, the older girl “playing”, and the girl …show more content…
In my opinion, the little girl represents innocence. Her eyes are clear, and staring straight at you (the viewer). I feel that the artist specifically did that to demonstrate that, innocence is present in each one of us. It’s a way for the artist to remind us that we haven’t lost our innocence, we only forgot about its existence. The green chair represents stability in life, if we have balance in our life, everything else will follow. The older girl on the ground represents a “guardian”. This guardian, protects the innocence of the little girl, but yet it does not interferes with the girl