White Peony: A Critique Of A Painting

For starters, the first painting was filled with several figures and warm hues. The background was dominantly a light brown wall with shades of blue and green mixed in. There were five figures in this painting; the first is a young girl. She was very pail with a shad of folly in her cheeks and light brown eyes. Her hair was a shade of light golden blonde and a braid at the summit gave the deception of her having a headband on top of her head. She had one tiny white Peony in her hair with other light coral, plum, purple and yellow unidentified things that I presumed was to be a small hat. She was wearing a tight, amethyst purple, corset with shear lace fabric at the top. Sewn into the lace of her dress were three fully bloomed flowers, one large white and two small pink Peonies, and four that were just beginning to blossom. …show more content…
The sleeves of her dress were a clear sea green with light pink disperses throughout. At the edge of her sleeves there was white fabric coming out, which I am assuming was her undergarments. Pursuing this further, the skirt of her dress appeared to be a metallic, Persian, orange. Proceeding onward, the girl likewise had gold strings wrapped around each of her wrists. The string was connected to the second figure in the painting, a small blue and white bird, which was flying high in the dark corner of the room. In continuation, the next figure in this artistic creation was a small ebony and white marble topped table with solid gold legs. The legs of this table had what looked to be leaves carved into it. The final in this painting was the unknown subject in the right corner. This unknown figure was wearing an all black cloak and did not have a