Green politics

In this painting, Anna Valler-Coster uses complimentary colors. The definition of complimentary colors is that of colors directly opposite one another on the color spectrum. Some examples of complimentary colors are blue and orange, or red and green. When these colors are combined in the right proportions, produce white light. Complimentary…

(Klein). From the green light on Daisy’s dock, to the dull Valley of Ashes, almost every color in this novel has a hidden message behind it. In the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, a man by the name of Jay Gatsby, who grew up on a poor farm in North Dakota, attempts to achieve the American Dream. In that process he falls in love with a woman named Daisy Buchanan. When Gatsby goes off to war, Daisy gets married to a rich man, Tom Buchanan. Gatsby devotes the rest of…

Dream. Sadly, for most Americans who lacked the necessary wealth to do so failed. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows how the American dream is unattainable to those without money through the symbolism of a flower. This flower is a daisy, which consist of a green stem, yellow core, and white petals. The stem is representative of the wealthy roots necessary for the American dream. The yellow core represents the reality and the white represent the American dream. In the…

Ansley Adams is the creator of this oil panting called memento Mori” which is located at Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery at USC Upstate. Ansley Adams created this painting circa two-thousand and fifteenth. The medium of the work is oil, and the dimension of the Memento Mori is fifteen and a half by sixteen. The subject of this painting is the skull and the long glass bottle. The term Memento Mori is a Latin word that means remember you must die. It depicts a picture of a skull on a table on top of…

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 mesmerizing effects of a waterfall and an ocean tide leave us stunned by their natural beauty. Unfortunately, you can 't bring a waterfall or an ocean tide into your bedroom design, but you can use Royal Blue and Aqua paint colors to add aquatic elements. Combinations of harmonious paint colors is a fantastic way to ensure a room design that blends and flows from one area to the next. Typically, these related paint colors are next to each other or directly below one another on a color swatch…

measuring approximately 2 feet in both height and width. This is a realistic painting which appears to be in a forest type setting with 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…

I was drawn to the color palette of emerald blue, yellow, green, red and brown. The emerald blue dresses remind me of power or pride, but the look on their face, especially, in their eyes reminds me of lost. The flowers that surround them reminds me of the sun because of the yellow, and the red inside, but again…

The two paintings I chose to compare and contrast are Aurora Borealis by Frederic Edwin Church and Portrait of Félix Fénéon by Paul Signac. Both paintings have the same mediums; oil on canvas. Aurora Borealis was created in 1865, it is now housed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington and its dimensions are 142.3 x 212.2 cm. Portrait of Félix Fénéon was created in 1890, it is now housed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and its dimensions are 74 x 95 cm. Aurora Borealis is…

They say a picture is worth a thousands words I agree with that a picture can say a lot to the viewer, same thing with a painting. The photograph and painting I chose to write about is about Queen Elizabeth. The photograph of Queen Elizabeth was taken in 1952 by Beatrice Johnson and it shows Queen Elizabeth wearing a beautiful crown,a yellow patterned dress, with a sash, and diamond jewelry. In the picture the queen has a slight smile not showing any teeth because, it’s a type of picture where…