Art 101 Midterm Exhibition Intro
The Sacred Real
The Sacred Realm is an art theme that allows artist to explore a world beyond our visible sight (52.) It is a way for artist to depict the many things that can not be explained; for instance, faith, afterlife, love and creation (52.) The artwork in this collection captures many different visions of unanswered questions. All of these artworks uses different visual elements and design principles. We start with Girolamo da Treviso's "The Madonna and Child with Angels, Saints and a Donor" which features the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. The painting is symmetrically balanced, having both sides of the painting visually balanced (125.) Treviso uses mostly primary colors, red, blue and yellow(95.) By using emphasis, bring attention to, the artist paints a yellow ring around Mary's head to make her the focal point (134.) The artist also incorporates hierarchical scale, indicates relative importance, by having everyone below Mary besides the saints (138.) Our next painting, David Teniers the Younger's "The Rich Man being led to Hell", focuses on the afterlife, where we may go when we die. Unlike Treviso, this artist uses subordination, dull background, in order to pull the viewer's attention to the focal point, the man (134.) He also uses negative shapes, the outline of viewer's in the left hand corner so you can focus on the positive shapes, the men leading the rich man to hell (88.) The third painting in this collection, Francois Lemoyne’s "Hercules and Omphale" depicts a Greek God. Lemoyne uses directional lines to draw his focus (85.) The diagonal lines of the women's leg and the child's back draws your eyes upward while the sphere draws your eyes down to the main focus, Hercules (88.) Lemoyne also balances this painting asymmetrically by having the woman hang over his left shoulder and the child hang on his right leg (129.) Just as Treviso, Giovanni Battista Pittoni's "The Nativity with God the Father and the Holy Ghost" focuses on the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus like. Giovanni emphasizes mother and child by using blue, red and pure white to grab our attention against the subordinated tints of earth tones (134-136.) Unlike the previous paintings, Gerard Francois' "Cupid and Psyche" display Francois’ vision of love. Francois chose cool colors, blue and green to give this painting a peaceful, loving feel (95.) Like Lemoyne, Francois balances his painting asymmetrically; he balances cupid's wings in the right upper corner with the pink sheet in the lower left corner (125.) Francois also uses the diagonal direction of the legs to draw your eyes to the center of the painting (85.) Like Francois, M.C. Escher's "The Second Day of Creation" displays a different aspect of the Sacred Realm, our creation. As the title explains, Escher depicts what he thinks the second day of creation must have looked like. As Lemoyne and Francois, Escher uses directional lines to coast your eyes around his image. The diagonal lines in the waves keep your eyes moving from one wave to the next (85.) While the vertical lines in the peaking waves make them appear superior to the waves below (85.) Unlike any of the previous pictures, Escher uses values, black and white, to unify his image (122) and the waves give it rhythm, a repeating element (141.) Our last artwork, Daniel Chester French's "The Angel of Death and the Sculptor from the Milmore Memorial" depicts what may happen when you die, just as Tenier the Younger did. Unlike the other artworks this is a sculptor. The mass, three-dimensional object (87), gives actual texture; You could actually feel the Angels wings or the legs of the man being taken (103.) French uses the diagonal lines of the two arms reaching out for each other to bring your attention to the focal point, the two holding hands. All of these artworks display the same theme: The Sacred Realm. However, every artist used different techniques to depict their image.
Works Cited
Getlein, Mark "Living With Art, Eighth Edition" New York. 2008
The Sacred Realm is an art theme that allows artist to explore a world beyond our visible sight (52.) It is a way for artist to depict the many things that can not be explained; for instance, faith, afterlife, love and creation (52.) The artwork in this collection captures many different visions of unanswered questions. All of these artworks uses different visual elements and design principles. We start with Girolamo da Treviso's "The Madonna and Child with Angels, Saints and a Donor" which features the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. The painting is symmetrically balanced, having both sides of the painting visually balanced (125.) Treviso uses mostly primary colors, red, blue and yellow(95.) By using emphasis, bring attention to, the artist paints a yellow ring around Mary's head to make her the focal point (134.) The artist also incorporates hierarchical scale, indicates relative importance, by having everyone below Mary besides the saints (138.) Our next painting, David Teniers the Younger's "The Rich Man being led to Hell", focuses on the afterlife, where we may go when we die. Unlike Treviso, this artist uses subordination, dull background, in order to pull the viewer's attention to the focal point, the man (134.) He also uses negative shapes, the outline of viewer's in the left hand corner so you can focus on the positive shapes, the men leading the rich man to hell (88.) The third painting in this collection, Francois Lemoyne’s "Hercules and Omphale" depicts a Greek God. Lemoyne uses directional lines to draw his focus (85.) The diagonal lines of the women's leg and the child's back draws your eyes upward while the sphere draws your eyes down to the main focus, Hercules (88.) Lemoyne also balances this painting asymmetrically by having the woman hang over his left shoulder and the child hang on his right leg (129.) Just as Treviso, Giovanni Battista Pittoni's "The Nativity with God the Father and the Holy Ghost" focuses on the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus like. Giovanni emphasizes mother and child by using blue, red and pure white to grab our attention against the subordinated tints of earth tones (134-136.) Unlike the previous paintings, Gerard Francois' "Cupid and Psyche" display Francois’ vision of love. Francois chose cool colors, blue and green to give this painting a peaceful, loving feel (95.) Like Lemoyne, Francois balances his painting asymmetrically; he balances cupid's wings in the right upper corner with the pink sheet in the lower left corner (125.) Francois also uses the diagonal direction of the legs to draw your eyes to the center of the painting (85.) Like Francois, M.C. Escher's "The Second Day of Creation" displays a different aspect of the Sacred Realm, our creation. As the title explains, Escher depicts what he thinks the second day of creation must have looked like. As Lemoyne and Francois, Escher uses directional lines to coast your eyes around his image. The diagonal lines in the waves keep your eyes moving from one wave to the next (85.) While the vertical lines in the peaking waves make them appear superior to the waves below (85.) Unlike any of the previous pictures, Escher uses values, black and white, to unify his image (122) and the waves give it rhythm, a repeating element (141.) Our last artwork, Daniel Chester French's "The Angel of Death and the Sculptor from the Milmore Memorial" depicts what may happen when you die, just as Tenier the Younger did. Unlike the other artworks this is a sculptor. The mass, three-dimensional object (87), gives actual texture; You could actually feel the Angels wings or the legs of the man being taken (103.) French uses the diagonal lines of the two arms reaching out for each other to bring your attention to the focal point, the two holding hands. All of these artworks display the same theme: The Sacred Realm. However, every artist used different techniques to depict their image.
Works Cited
Getlein, Mark "Living With Art, Eighth Edition" New York. 2008
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The essay defines the theme Sacred Realm very well.
It mentions the features of each work.
Watch grammar
"By using emphasis, bring attention to, the artist paints a yellow ring around Mary's head to make her the focal point (134.)"
Should be
By using emphasis, the artist brings attention... to,
watch tense:
"All of these artworks uses different visual elements and design principles."
should be "artworks use"
Connections and Critical Thinking:
It is true that all the artworks use different elements and principles of design, but how do these components support the theme or purpose of the work?
The essay does not make this connection.
In order for the essay to have a flow that makes meaning clear consider:
All of these artworks uses different visual elements and design principles to support the artistic theme of Sacred Realm.
For example, Girolamo da Treviso paints "The Madonna and Child with Angels, Saints and a Donor" to portray characters from the Christian pantheon of saints and deities. He uses emphasis to bring attention to Mary and Jesus by placing them in the center of the composition. He also places Mary and Jesus at the top of the primary triad. Notice that Mary and Jesus are surrounded in blue, and the saints or Donor's? flanking them are in red and yellow creating a triangle with Mary and Jesus at the top. This picture supports the Sacred Realm theme because it depicts a world beyond our visible sight.
Hope this makes things more clear.
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