Image Essay # 15

Since we are still working with color and we had the art show today I chose to do a painting that demonstrates analogous colors, which is a piece that combines several colors next to each other on the color wheel. The colors in this piece are violet, red, orange, yellow, green, and blue which is basically all of the color wheel making this a great example of an analogous color scheme. At the art show there were many good demonstrators of color schemes. It was not uncommon to see red and orange in the volcanos (for the lava). In our classes area there were a lot of color schemes in the posters and the dvd cases. There was complimentary colors, some earth tones, and analogous colors. Overall at the art show there was a really good variety of everything even neutral gray, such as in the robot cat. I think this is a very good piece overall because all of the colors define something different. The water is blue while the sky is a lighter hue of blue. The raft is orange, yellow and red and the trees are green. By having all those colors in this piece it is brought together very well.

Image Essay # 14

For this weeks image essay I chose to do a Lucian Freud artwork. This painting is a portrait of the queen. I like his work a lot and I think it is because he makes things look so realistic, like a picture would be from a camera. I chose to do one of the artists we were talking about during the color powerpoint because I wanted to make sure that I understood the concept of the colors artists use. I found out this week that color says a whole lot more than I thought it did. I can show a mood or feeling and mindstate, also color brings the painted elements to life. Lucian Freud uses a lot of detail while also using the color to bring it alive. Using color attracts the eye, whether it is dull and sticks out for that reason or it is so bright you cant help but look. Colors are also symbolic, in class when we were looking at Eric Fischel artwork, the chairs were pointed out as having a certain meaning but the color of the chairs is what draws the eye in to than be able to establish that meaning. Color is a very powerful form of expression and I am excited that we are finally working with it.

Image Essay # 13

This image is called Chicago Board of Trade II by Andreas Gursky. I chose to use his work for my image essay today because we talked about him in class yesterday when we were learning about color. We learned that Andreas Gursky uses triadic colors which are any colors the same distance apart on the color wheel. In this piece we can see yellow, orange, blue, purple, green and there are some lighter and darker parts such as black and white sections. I think that having the darker and lighter areas really makes the color stand out. Also there is a foreground, middleground and background. They are not highly defined like there foreground is not as dramatic as it could be but it is there. I like this piece because the colors are so rich and pure that they are bright and each one stands out. I also like this picture because as you get closer the people in the picture become more defined by skin tone and detail but far away everything is defined by a color and it doesnt look so much like a picture anymore but a painting.