While attending an art museum called “The Metropolitan” in New York City, I discovered many interesting portraits, sculptures, and much more artwork of all times. One of the portraits that had caught my eye was called Spring Time by Pierre-Auguste Cot. He painted this portrait in 1873 and it was now found at The Metropolitan Museum. The material that was used is called oil on canvas, according to the tag that was placed by this painting. Unfortunately, the size of the painting was not listed on the right side tag of the portrait, but it was a nice big painting. As I continue with this paper, I will be discussing into details about this painting using the four steps of writing an art criticism, also known as the Feldman’s Method. The first
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Interpretation in art has to do with trying to think about some ideas that an artwork is trying to portray. It means to think or brainstorm some stories that is behind the painting, trying to identify what the artist was thinking at that moment and the reason for it. Many interpretations can be made just by looking at this painting itself. The first interpretation that can be noticed is the two young couples sitting on the swings. They seem to be gazing into each other's eyes as if they could be in love. Usually when two couples stare into each other's eyes like the way these two couples were painted, could be that they are in love. Another interpretation would have to be the relationship with the title and the painting. The title spring time can be easily seen in this painting due to the wet clothes that these two people have. The clothes seem wet because of the way it was painted on. The breasts of the women can be easily seen through her dress as if the dress was wet. In spring there are a lot of rain showers which can easily interpret the title along with the painting. The title is also used as a representation of the colors as …show more content…
Many different elements can be seen throughout the entire painting. Some of the principles and elements that I caught in this painting were colors, texture, value, shapes, and lines. One of the few things that I enjoyed about this picture was looking at the colors. The colors brings out a lot of meaning to a painting whether its love, hate, sadness, or much more. When observing colors especially, I like to think about how many colors was used and how they were used. Whether they used dark tones or light tones, finding the meaning to why the painter decided to use that form of painting, it means that there is something about that story that makes it valuable. When using colors that happen to look shiny, I see it as a form that it is the most important part of the entire painting. For example, the clothes that were painted on the female and male, where shinny, making in the main focuses that brings my attention. This shinny portion makes the clothes on these two people look wet as if it was raining and they were soaked. I noticed that the breast for the female was showing as I mentioned earlier, making it clearer that the reason why it was see through, was because of the weather. Since the title is called Spring Time, I can imagine that the cause of the wet clothes would be due to rain since in spring rains more than any other season. In addition, Cot did an amazing job on this
Interpretation in art has to do with trying to think about some ideas that an artwork is trying to portray. It means to think or brainstorm some stories that is behind the painting, trying to identify what the artist was thinking at that moment and the reason for it. Many interpretations can be made just by looking at this painting itself. The first interpretation that can be noticed is the two young couples sitting on the swings. They seem to be gazing into each other's eyes as if they could be in love. Usually when two couples stare into each other's eyes like the way these two couples were painted, could be that they are in love. Another interpretation would have to be the relationship with the title and the painting. The title spring time can be easily seen in this painting due to the wet clothes that these two people have. The clothes seem wet because of the way it was painted on. The breasts of the women can be easily seen through her dress as if the dress was wet. In spring there are a lot of rain showers which can easily interpret the title along with the painting. The title is also used as a representation of the colors as …show more content…
Many different elements can be seen throughout the entire painting. Some of the principles and elements that I caught in this painting were colors, texture, value, shapes, and lines. One of the few things that I enjoyed about this picture was looking at the colors. The colors brings out a lot of meaning to a painting whether its love, hate, sadness, or much more. When observing colors especially, I like to think about how many colors was used and how they were used. Whether they used dark tones or light tones, finding the meaning to why the painter decided to use that form of painting, it means that there is something about that story that makes it valuable. When using colors that happen to look shiny, I see it as a form that it is the most important part of the entire painting. For example, the clothes that were painted on the female and male, where shinny, making in the main focuses that brings my attention. This shinny portion makes the clothes on these two people look wet as if it was raining and they were soaked. I noticed that the breast for the female was showing as I mentioned earlier, making it clearer that the reason why it was see through, was because of the weather. Since the title is called Spring Time, I can imagine that the cause of the wet clothes would be due to rain since in spring rains more than any other season. In addition, Cot did an amazing job on this