Art 101 Musuem visit Activity two

Horace Vernet's "Hunting in the Pontine Marshes", 1833, oil canvas depicts various design bases such as shape, color, perspective and line. Your attention is first pulled to the white tree. This becomes the paintings figure, the main focus, because it stands out compared to the dark background or ground(89.) The background is comprised mainly of monochromatic color because the artist uses different variations of the color green (97.) This also contributes to the atmospheric perspective which gives the painting a look of ongoing woodland (113.) While the vertical lines of the vines hanging from the trees give the woods an enormous appearance in comparison to the small boat (85.) The artist also uses an intense or purity in color of orange in the leaves of the broken tree branch to redirect your attention to the small boat floating on the river(96.) Vernet used a restricted palette, very few colors, when he painted this picture ( 98.)





Martin Johnson Heade's "Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds",1871, oil canvas also depicts various design bases such as shape, color, perspective and line. The shape and color of the flower stands out compared to the rest of the painting (87) which makes the main focus, figure, in this painting, the flower (89.) This painting aslo employs atmospheric perspective which gives the background a never ending appearance(113.) Unlike Vernet, Heade's background was painted with less intensity in order to bring more attention to the various hues in the flower and the hummingbirds (88.) The artist also used complimentary colors which are colors directly across from each other on the colorwheel, in order to compliment the flower with its stem (97.) While Vernet used a restricted palette, Heade used a variety of different colors, open palette , to paint this picture(98.)