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of the canvas. The texture produced two different senses; sight and touch. Unfortunately, the touch part of the painting was not allowed but the overall texture of the canvas was very smooth, there was not that many edges to make the painting rough. The texture can be evaluated more by looking at the biggest element in this painting which is the cow, the body of the cow has minimal edges with very smooth strokes. This goes for all the animals in this painting. This naturalistic smooth canvas…

Gogh, Café Terrace at Night, 1888, oil on canvas, KröllerMuller Museum, Otterlo for my design summary/formal analysis. Two elements utilized in this piece of art are texture and color. Texture is the surface quality of a work (Dewitte, Larmann, Shields 62). Color is the optical effect caused when reflected white light of the spectrum is divided into a separate wavelength (Dewitte, Larmann, Shields 92). Implied Texture is displayed throughout this canvas. Implied texture is texture we have…

This painting is an oil on canvas with its approximate size of 6’9 x 10’. It is currently displayed in The Art Institute of Chicago. It features many people in casual activity at La Grande Jatte which is an island in the Seine River near Asnieres (Gardener). Everyone is gathered together which seems to be a park near a lake, full of green everywhere from the healthy trees to the fresh green grass, all laid out on a nice clear day. The colors in this painting are truly incredibly with the use of…

from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which the girl that is portrayed in the painting named Ophelia drowns herself in a stream because of the grief of losing her father, who was murdered by the love of her life, Hamlet. The medium of this painting is oil on canvas, it is a method of painting using pigments distribute in oil. It was commonly used during the middle ages as a binder because of its flexibility. The flexibility of oil made it possible for Millais to create the details of Ophelia's hair…

prints. van Gogh adopted Japanese influence into his work (known as Japonisme) and it is evident in his most famous work, Starry Night. (http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/508/Starry-Night.html) Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night, oil on canvas, on June of 1889 while he was in a mental asylum in Saint- Rémy, France being treated for his erratic behavior. He is said to have painted the scene from memory. Starry Night is a Japonisme painting due to its bright hues-blue, yellow,…

popular media is in some way a precursor of pop art, which developed as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism. An art critic known as Harold Rosenberg once said, “At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an area in which to act. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.” Abstract expressionism resisted cohesive style but revealed an expressive content, which eventually opened the floodgates to the diversity and scope of all…

An Author’s Canvas Heart of Darkness is a novella by Joseph Conrad, that reveals the true nature of imperialism and its merciless idiosyncrasies. Complications of race, power, and insanity are brought too attention and are questioned as the story progresses. Specific, symbolic paintings emerge throughout the novella, representing a deeper meaning and theme of the voyage of Heart of Darkness. There are many artworks that do not take place in the novella but can still represent and embody the…

with the metaphor of a blank canvas because before you begin painting you think about what you’re going to create and if it’s going to tell a story. Haas and Flower state “Comments coded as content strategies are concerned with content or topic information…The reader may be questioning, interpreting, or summing content, and paraphrasing” (175). The authors illustrates that content is the most basic type of reading and includes locating the topics of the piece. A blank canvas has so many…

George's two siblings, Charles and Edward, and in 1850, he and his more seasoned sibling, William, went along with them there. In any case, he and William soon turned from mining to running a gem store in Sonoma. The medium of this painting is oil on canvas. In 1878, silver lord James Clair Flood appointed Burgess to…

made the physical act of painting and pour technique. Pollock transformed his interest in dynamic rhythms into a free, abstract style that had him working with his whole body in swirling gesture as he poured or flung paint onto the surface of his canvas. With a can of his paint in his hands, he moved freely, dripping, spilling, throwing the color, apparently with total abandon as he performed a kind of pictorial dance whose choreography is recorded on the…