Color space

How to choose the right fabric for blackout curtains? The choice of fabric for your blackout curtains depends not only on your personal taste from the room where the curtains are attached. In bedroom curtains should usually be opaque and darken the room if required. For dense cottons come into question. For the kitchen an easy care fabric that can be washed regularly is recommended. Curtains for the bathroom are partly made of washable fabric, so that they can not touch the moisture. In the…

very closely and see the paint on the canvas flow through each brush stroke, see the colors expand and blur, and see how the lights play off the soft, vibrant colors. Watch the swirls expand out into an infinite space in time . The paint flies beyond the canvas and the shadows and reflections blur into one. The pinks, blues, reds, yellows, oranges, purples, and browns blend together to create a symphony of colors. There is a stigmata in the Lili pad brush strokes and a legato in the lines of…

into focus the choices we, as humans, need to make about what is important versus what is not concerning the various borders in our lives. In the article, “A Very Bordered World,” Alexander Diener and Joshua Hagen explain that we all create these spaces that separate, but they…

The Wake (also titled El Velorio) is a genre painting by José María Jara. It was painted in 1889 and is 70 inches by 52 inches. The medium is oil on canvas. It depicts a sad, somber scene of a group of people, most likely the family, mourning a lost loved one. Analysis To some, if not all people, the focal point is the bright candle and figure in the almost exact center of the painting. Then there's an abundance of diagonal lines radiating from said candle, leading your eye downwards into the…

textured quality. The painter, Titan, painted this picture giving soft appearances of the colors. The painting doesn’t have any harsh brush strokes, and the paint seems to be very blended. The colors have a stunning radiant quality, from the light fleshy colored skin of the figures to the bright blue sky in the background; it appears that despite the hundreds of years since this painting was created, the colors are as…

The painting I chose to do an analysis on is “Kneeling Mother with a Child at Her Breast”. In the painting I see a African women with dark skin kneeling down on both knees holding her baby in her left arm with one hand behind head and the other on the buttocks. She is kneeling on a round grey mat while the baby is sucking on her nipple. She is also starring in her baby’s eyes with somewhat of a grin on her face. Both her and her baby are butt naked in this painting. The baby has his/her eyes…

The painting The Jungle by Wilfredo Lam was created in 1943 C.E. The medium used for the painting was gouache on paper, which is mounted on canvas. This work of art hangs in The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York. The color of blue is used throughout the painting, along with a few strokes of yellow, orange, and green. Many bamboo plants and leaves are shown in the background suggesting the setting on a farm or plantation and show the use of organic shapes. Several distorted figures…

When I first look at the add it reminds me of daybreak. Having the colors fade from a dark orange to yellow gives it contrast and with the glow going through the middle and around the text, reminds me of sunrise breaking through the horizon. The color in the text also gave me a warm feeling, you have the sun colors and hot coffee. I the text is also bended to mimic the sun rising, the value in the text guides our eyes down to see the breakfast food. The way the text is aligned keeps your focus…

an opened space. There were several trees placed in the scene showing off their beautiful colors of light and dark green. The trees were very tall, appearing to almost touch the skies if looking up. Some were aligned around a circular light brown path along the ground, appearing to be dirt while the rest of the trees aligned themselves along the shape of the small stream. The sun was shining down towards the left of the viewer, casting shadows and the different shades of the trees colors. Even…

highlighting colors include faint pink, yellow, orange, and golden. The remaining colors have very dark values of red, blue, and green; though, not quite black. The background wall utilizes a small range of values in the dark greys, blues, and red. Although the bright white tablecloth takes up nearly half the painting, overall the painting seems to have majority of dark tones. This allows the previously mentioned contrast of lines and shapes to be heightened by a strong contrast of colors. Even…