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"Hotel de la Marine" by Charles Marville, 1872-1876, albumen print. This photograph is a good example of symmetry. The lamp post is placed right on the vertical axis of the picture. If you were to fold the picture in half the lamp post would be a perfect reflection to its sides.

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"Classic Landscape" by Charles Sheeler, 1931, oil on canvas. This painting truly incorporates the use of lines. There are examples of diagnol lines with the railroad. The clouds are an example of contour lines and the mounds of rocks are of directional lines.

Ekphrases

This painting focuses on a mother and a daughter in a room. The doorway to

the inside of the room is centered along the vertical axis of the painting. The

medium is oil on canvas and was created in 1658/1660. It was painted by a

Dutch artist. There are uses of primary and secondary colors. Such as a red

tablecloth on a brown table with dark color vase sitting on top. The chairs are

dark brown with yellow diamonds. The walls are gray and tan. The mother is

wearing a red shirt with a dark color skirt and a white bonnet. The young girl is

wearing a dress that is brown at the top and yellow at the bottom. The floor is a

reddish-orange brick color in a square formation. The young girl is standing in

the doorway holding the door handle and is glancing at her mother(I assume)

while smiling. The mother is folding a greenish-yellow cloth and smiling back

at her daughter. Above the doorway there is a small painting, with a brown

frame and the picture is blurred. If you look through the doorway you can see

another door leading outside and a window to the left of that outside door.

That door has two parts(top and bottom opens separately)and is open allowing

sunshine into the house along with the light coming through the windows. The

balance of this painting is asymmetrical; the left side is fuller than the right.

The mother is standing on the left side and little girl is slightly to the right of

the vertical axis. The sides are brought together by the light shining in from the

right and through the doorway. The theme of the painting is of human

experience and is representational; descriptive of a work of art that depicts

forms in the natural world.


The artist's style is from the Dutch genre; French meaning scenes showing

people at work, play, or rest. He popularized the style of painting. Some would

also describe his style as cinematic people.


Good luck to whom ever chooses this.

Activity Eleven: Period or Movement

The painting "Fog off Mount Desert" by Frederic Edwin Church in 1850. This painting was created during the time of Realism which came about in the 19th century. This movement rose as an reaction to Neoclassicism and Romanticism(Mark Getlein). According to Mark Getlein, realist artist sought to depict the everyday and the ordinary. Some of the French placed alot of emphasis on nature as does this artist here. Church's painting is an actual depiction of Mount Desert in Maine.

In my next painting, "La Condition Humaine" by Rene Magritte was created in 1933. The time frame of this painting is of Surrealism. Surrealism derived from the Dada movement. Surrealist appreciate the logic of dreams, and the mystery of the unconcious. According to Jeff Metlein. The drawings flowed straight from the subconcious, unchecked by reason. This painting represents the outside versus inside.

Activity Ten: Mediums and Techniques

In the "Fog off Mount Desert" by Frederic Edwin Church,1850 and "La Condition Humaine" by Rene' Magritte, 1933; the medium used in the painting is oil on canvas. The choice of this medium is popular due to the fact that it allows manipulation without compromising the artwork. This is possible because oil dries slowly, linseed is most preferred. Because of the slow drying process the artist can make changes to the painting without separation or cracking, at anytime until he or she is certain it has reached desired perfection. Church used light brush strokes to give his painting a thin appearance.
In Magritte's painting the same medium was chosen for the same reasons. It prolongs the period of time to allow changes without destroying the work already done. Yet in "La Condition Humaine" stronger brush strokes were used to show the differences in the picture within the picture. In both paintings the image is the most important of the painting. Mount Desert in Church's portrait and the smaller painting in the portrait in "La Condition Humaine". Apparently more time and concentration were placed in creating the mountain and the smaller portrait. Using the oil medium allowed that time for correction and concentration on replicating the images seen while painting.

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The Old Bridge, Hubert Robert, 1775, oil on canvas medium
This painting asymmetrically balanced. The artist used cool colors. The bridge appears to be transformed into a home occupied by people and animals.

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River Landscape, Annibale Carracci,1590,oil on canvas medium

At first glance Your focus point is on the tree leaning across the middle of the painting, but if you look closer clearly you see the man in boat on the river. This painting takes on the theme of art and nature.