The colors used in Andy Warhol’s legendary painting of Marylyn Monroe’s are outstanding. The golden background is a symbol of Marylyn’s extravagant life. Warhol used colors such as bright yellow and formed curly lines on the head to represent Marylyn’s beautiful blonde hair. He also used very bright colors for Marilyn’s eyes and lips. At the center a much dark brown color is used forming a protruding rectangular platform that holds the actual face image. He produced shadows by painting the right…
For this piece of artwork I used pencil and a smudger. I made this in my 9th grade year for my art and design class. The title of this work is "Kitchen Drawer Drawing". My first impression when viewing the artwork is the background drowns out the objects, the objects are not dark enough while the background is too dark. Most of the objects can be recognized. Some of them the shading make the objects seem more like a blur than any kitchen item, so it makes it somewhat unrecognizable. The…
Discovery is intensely meaningful as it can transform an individual’s understanding in an emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual manner. The far-reaching ramifications of discovery may differ for people and their contexts. This concept of discovery is conveyed in Stephen Daldry’s film “Billy Elliot” (2000) and Sarah Rabia’s extract “Dinner”. In the film “Billy Elliot”, it becomes clear that discoveries which evoke one’s innermost thoughts and feeling can lead to significant implications…
I had visited the High Art Museum in Atlanta on November 15. I decided to write on the art piece The Sea From Capri because that had caught my eye. The painting was born in the year of 1875. The painter is the American William Stanley Haseltine; he lived from 1835 to 1900. The painting is available for viewing in the High Arts Museum on the third level in the Stent Family Wing in gallery 301. The size of piece is 41 1/4 x 72 7/8 inches on a canvas. The painting is a breathing taking view of…
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the colors green, gold, and grey to symbolically show the wealth in the American dream, which ultimately proves to be shallow and false, these colors also represent Gatsby’s quest to obtain the American Dream to impress…
angry or a happy face. In this experiment, the results showed that red was preferred in the happy condition again, but green was preferred in the hostile situation. In the third part of their experiment, they added another control color of gray. In this experiment, the results showed red was again preferred in the hospitable condition, but there was not difference between green and gray. Since this study was conducted with infants, further research is needed using adults from the United…
had asked someone to picture an apple in their head the majority would most likely picture a red apple, even though there are varying colors like golden yellow and light green. Also these colors have an effect on us that…
The crowd applauded at the straightforward speech I had given. I meant every word. I now can only hope that Aiden was there watching me address the crowd the way I did for him. I went over a picked up my Cathy and just stared into her deep eyes of green. He was there, he watched me just now and he is smiling. The door to Aiden is through…
Did your learning style results surprise you? A little bit, yes. Although, I have played the flute since I was 12 and musical was my highest score My second highest score was intrapersonal which is more the reflective side of my personality. The inner strength to keep going even when the times get tough. I think that these skills have been really refined when going through adversity. Learning how to cope with something outside of my own control. For instance, the loss of my husband’s job…
geometric structure, he depicts the loneliness and despair of this woman. The main focus of the painting is a single woman sitting at a table gazing down at the table where her cup is at. The woman is dressed very nicely, she is wearing an emerald green coat with brown fur trim and a yellow cloche hat. The brim of her hat appears to have been pulled down, slightly covering her face, and she has on only one of her gloves. The woman’s face does not show any emotion, but does appear to have…