Andrea del Sarto Florentine Head of a Woman 1515 Black Chalk 33 x 22.4 cm This is a High Renaissance drawing by Andrea del Sarto. The mark is very detailed in parts, but is used in short strokes for others to create the idea of depth and value. The artist employed hatching and smudging in the drawing. He also exhibited the technique evidential of the High Renaissance by using sfumato, or the subtle transition in value. | Jackson Pollock Number 2, 1951, 1951 1951 Collage of paper soaked in glue, pebbles, twine, wire mesh, newsprint, and oil on fiber board From afar, this looks like a painting (albeit a bumpy one). The splattered oil and glue create the appearance of paint in the style traditional of Jackson Pollock, an action painter. The color scheme is fairly neutral, but has warm undertones. I believe this helps to emphasize texture, which is the element most prominent in this work. | Claude Monet The Bridge at Argenteuil 1874 Oil on Canvas 60 x 79.7 cm This painting by Monet looks very different from far away than up close. Up close it is only colors and brushstrokes. The strokes in the water are heavily layered, longer, and faster than ones, say, in the sky. This creates movement and makes it look like the water is flowing. The strokes in the trees are thickly layered and shorter, like leaves. People that can be seen from a distance are only blobs up close. The "blue" water is made up of yellow, purple, green, blue, red, and white. Light is shown through shadow and reflection on the water. The composition looks somewhat Z shaped, so the eye ends on the boat and tree in the lower right hand corner. |
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Coach
12/14/2014 09:59:08 am
Perfect!
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