Color scheme

inches. The painting is portraying two people; a man and a woman with different styles when it comes to their outside appearances, but with the combination of shape and color they had both compliment each other and fill what they are lack of. The types of elements that dominating in this piece are the lines and colors. The lines are used to trace the outer part of the character and it was present on the inside as well. The lines are everywhere; on the lips, eyes, nose, clothes of…

Nocturne in Blue and Gold by Whistler (figure 4.34) and The Scream by Munch (figure 4.35). Compare: Nocturne in Blue and Gold and The Scream are alike in that they both use color to add emotion to their paintings. The sceneries are also very similar they both have a bridge of some sort, a person, and show the water and sky. Contrast: Nocturne in Blue and Gold and The Scream are very different in the emotions you feel when looking at both painting. Nocturne in Blue and Gold is more clam, and…

on display in the Kennedy Museum along with several other landscapes of his: Long Run and Long Pond Shoreline. In Long Pond: Daylight LaPalombara successfully manipulates color and depth to portray a realistic, picturesque experience. The overall color scheme of the piece contains an analogous color scheme based off of cool color such as a variety of blues, white, and a soft touch of green. The various shades of blue establish a peaceful, yet isolated mood as the blue implies that the image was…

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…

Mini Critique #2: Atmospherics In recent decades, stores, malls, restaurants, and all kinds of businesses have learned to manipulate customers’ five senses by utilizing the techniques of atmospherics, in order to push customers to spend their money impulsively and emotionally; therefore, businesses can make more profit. According to what Douglas Rushkoff argues in his book, Coercion, the floor plan, temperature, lighting, sounds, smells, and other elements are all designed to create a “consuming…

community is a school’s colors; they are incredibly valuable to the school as they represent a school’s values such as integrity or perseverance for example, while distinguishing them from other schools. A prime example of this is Duke University. When Duke was establishing itself as a top-tier university…

meaning that aspects of the work symbolize the hidden truth to the subject matter of the work. Curry’s use of formal elements and principles of design such as a strong focal point, atmospheric perspective, repetition, contrast between light and dark colors, and symbolism all elicit the depressing dark fate of the…

The style of choice and color scheme for an artist can stage the general mood for many paintings. As stated before, Gentileschi was most likely influenced by Carvaggio, this theory becomes even more apparent when it is shown that both artists utilize chiaroscuro to emphasize the drama of the scene that is unfolding. Chiaroscuro is a way of contrasting light and shade, usually using strong tonal contrast, which can lend itself to emphasize drama such as the tension portrayed as Judith saws off…

It is the nature of man to question his own dubious choices. In the poem “The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost employs structure, setting, wording, and rhyme scheme, as well as the title to emphatically state that the heart suffers over that which it left behind. Frost shows that man naturally questions the ambiguity of each decision made. Frost structures this lyric poem to feel like a journey. He uses four stanzas of five lines each in a progressive unveiling of thought about an uncertain future,…

Germany. Expressionist artists turned to bright colors and distorted subjects to show emotions through their art. Wildings painting display many characteristics of expressionism, first being the distorting reality of the tree trunk in her photo. This is no regular tree trunk, but instead what appears to be the form of a women's body. Wilding also uses arbitrary colors to focus her viewer on the vivid red color of the leaves on the tree, even though this color has no natural relation to it. By…