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Gallery in the Fox Building. This work is 35 3/4"x51 1/4" and painted by oil stick on plywood. A big tenant house almost occupides the whole space of the painting. The whole rectangle plywood was painted with thin as well as various mixed and impure colors. The roof is generally painted dark black but with some other colours, such as carmin, dark green and light yellow, revealed faintly. Also, there are several light grey lines on the different areas of the roof. The artist painted the most body…

The picture shows thirteen marathon racers running in unison. Starting from the left side, the first marathon runner has a bright white skin color with a dark color attire. But as you go further to the right of the piece the skin color of the runner becomes darker while the attire becomes lighter. Eventually at the far right the runner has very dark skin color and bright white attire. I believe this artist was trying to reveal his feeling in a tangible way we all can see. I also believe he…

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotions” (Pablo Picasso). Almost all writers use colors to form real images of their characters, the characters’ emotions, the scenes, and the events in the novel. Colors play a very important role when writers mention them in their novels. Readers can read a novel and see how colors can describe the characters and their emotions. A certain book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a very good example of a book that has color symbolism.…

on the ground, with folded arms and a solemn stare. The entire piece is painted in blue tones with darker shades of blue in the background to allow more emphasis on its focal point, the woman, who is painted in lighter shades. A limited amount of color is displayed throughout the portrait, but the same blotchy painting pattern encompasses everything except the woman’s face. The sharper details of her face catch the viewers’ eye while everything else looks out of focus. Perhaps the most…

Margaret D. Keane - born September 15, 1927 in Nashville, Tennessee - is an artist that is very well-known for her ‘Big Eyes’ paintings in the late 70s and early 80s, which typically featured sad children as their main subjects. Today, she creates various types of artworks with themes ranging anywhere from a lone horse, to a woman sitting and reading a book. These pieces are different because they were created in the later half of her career, long after her drawn-out battle against her…

symbol that was significant were the colors. The colors consist of: green, yellow, white and blue. These colors in the story showed lots of imagery. Additionally, using these colors there was one symbol that was primarily used, and it was called The Green light. The green light was presented to be the American Dream. Fitzgerald used these symbols to show the reader to understand the life in the roaring 20s. To start off with the story, the cities…

A symbol is a material object through which an abstract meaning is expressed. Fitzgerald takes great consideration into the symbols he chooses to portray his overarching ideas in The Great Gatsby. One in particular that stands out amongst the rest is Gatsby’s mansion itself. Located on the West Egg, Gatsby’s mansion is host of the city’s largest and most outrageously generous parties. Though, further into the novel it is revealed that Gatsby’s mansion is used to highlight the contrast between…

Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald finds many ways to use symbolism by comparing colors to people. Every chapter in this book uses colors in connection to at least 1 of the characters. Fitzgerald also u ses the colors but never really specifies the name of the color. "When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow" (Fitzgerald, p. 166). The colors he uses are green for jealousy and blue for sadness, red for anger and etc. The color white stands for the innocence and fairness, yellow…

The Symbolism of Colors in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby Each color has a language of it’s own and you easily learn the language by understanding the simple concept that each meaning of color can vary depending on the culture and circumstances. Colors play a very important role in our lives whether we realize it or not, because they have the ability to affect our emotions and moods in a way that few other things can. Black hides while white brings to light because what black covers…

dramatic effect because of the complementary colors. The colors of the sky and the reflection can describe his awe and respect for American landscape. The intense red-orange clouds complement swathes of the blue-green evening sky, giving magnificence to a quiet landscape. The other painting by Derain used more new and brighter colored pigments made available by advances in…