Spring Clean Painting Analysis

“Spring Clean” by Tom Powell is the painting that I felt had a lot of meaning to me. When the paper first got mentioned, I went to the Ice House Gallery in Mayfield, Ky. Tom Powell donated this painting just shortly before that to help raise money for the gallery. The subject matter in the piece is a house and in the back yard is a clothes line with four blankets hanging from tree to tree. And in the background is a barn and a wooden fence that is darker than the rest of the painting. This painting stuck out to me because it brought back memories to when I was a lot younger. My mom and grandmother would get together almost every spring and would help each other clean their houses. But now as they have both gotten older and my mom has to work, …show more content…
He used polychromatic throughout the painting, many colors were used and because there were so many colors used he didn’t have pattern or rhythm. It has Afocal point because your eyes don’t look at one thing, their looking at all the different colors and objects the painting has. It didn’t have any negative space, it was all positive. The painting does consist of value because the front of the paint is light but as it moves back, more and more shadows are produced because the sun has not touched them certain parts yet. One point perspective is used, the parallel lines are the house and the clothes line. I believe Tom Powell painted this painting to make people feel warm and comfort, it looks so peaceful and calm. In today’s world, everybody is always in a hurry and this painting reminds me that t doesn’t always have to be that way. It makes me want to take my time and enjoy life because before we know it time has already passed and it’s too late. And the way it looks darker in the back because the sun hasn’t touched it yet, means to me that things will always get better it just takes time for things to get