Activity #6 - Art Exhibit

Art and Nature

Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite, about 1871-73
Albert Bierstadt
Oil on canvas
North Caroline Muesum of Art




Nevada Falls, Yosemite, 1872
Albert Bierstadt
Oil on canvas
www.artrenewal.org




Fiercely the Red Sun Descending/Burned His Way Along the Heavens, 1875
Thomas Moran
Oil on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art




The Wave, 1880
Albert Bierstadt
Oil on paper
ARC Museum





Rainy Season, 1981
Belobrovsky Alexander
Watercolor on paper
Amsterdam Art Galley





Still Donet, 2002
Sergeev Vladimir
Oil on canvas
Lugansk Art Gallery

Activity #4 - Re-write

Claude Monet created The Japanese Footbridge, in 1899, oil on canvas and Juan van der Hamen y León painted Still Life with Sweets and Pottery in 1627, also using oil on canvas. Both artists used a variety of principles of design to construct a coherently flowing visual composition, however in contrasting ways; such as the use of light and color to create emphasis.

Emphasis (pg. 134), is a clearly defined area, called the focal point (134). Monet uses implied lighting throughout his work, therefore color, line and placement highlights the bridge which serves as the focal point. Versus Leon use of a bold red, implied lighting and placement to draw focus on the pottery and still life. The placement of the emphasized objects creates a visual weight or balance in the two artworks.

Both compositions are Asymmetrical balanced (129), visual weight that’s unevenly distributed to both halves of the composition. Monet’s achieves this by the placement of the footbridge in the upper half of the composition; as the water flows under the bridge it begins to recede at the vanishing point or horizontal horizon, and eventually narrows and recedes into the bushes. The water on the left side of the vertical axis narrows and recedes sooner than the right, making the right side heavier and creating a visually uneven distribution within the composition. Leon achieves asymmetrical balance by placing the majority of objects on the left side of the composition. The placement of objects also contributes to the rhythm of each composition.

Rhythm (141) is based on repetition. Leon uses a repetition of earth tones and red hues to create rhythm. Where as Monet uses rhythm to paint a repeating pattern of circular brush strokes to represent the water lilies, followed by a repeating cluster of long and short strokes for the bushes. He also, repeats the use of cool and tertiary colors through out the composition. Both artists use a repeating color scheme to create unity.

Unity (pg. 122), is a sense of oneness or visual harmony throughout the composition and variety (pg. 122), is the difference that provides interest. Monet uses the cool colors of green and blue-green to unify the work and pink, a tint of red, and complementary to green to add variety. Leon adds unity and variety by using proportion (137), size relationship between parts of a whole. Such as the different size of shapes among the arrangement of objects.

Activity #5

In 1899 Claude Monet painted, “The Japanese Footbridge”, oil on canvas and in 1627 Juan van der Hamen y Leon , painted “Still Life with Sweets and Pottery,” also oil on canvas.

Monet used Art and Nature as the theme (pg.50) to compose this beautiful composition; in contrast to Leon’s theme of Visual Delight and the Arts of Daily Life. Each art work contains a variety of visual elements and principles of design to build the content (chapter 3) and place emphasis on the subject (chapter 3). Theme is the unified, statement, purpose or description that runs throughout the entire artwork, content is the visual elements and principles of design used to create the artwork, and subject is the focal point of what the artist is depicting.

Monet’s used the forward placement of the bridge and its horizontal blue lines, which extends from side to side as the subject; this is also supported by the title. The content is designed by the use of tertiary colors such as yellow- green and green-blue used throughout the composition to help to support the theme and give it a calming emotional effect. Therefore the art and nature theme is supported more by the content rather than title.
Leon places emphasis on the bright red vase on the vertical axis accompanied by the implied light and contrasting earth tones, as a focal point, however, this is only part of the subject. The large red vase also draws the viewer attention to the other still life of the right side of the composition creating an asymmetrical balance. The subject is the entire collection of still life and pastries which is supported by the title and content of the artwork.

After learning about themes, both artists do a wonderful job on clearly conveying the theme to the viewer. However, Leon’s title, subject and content directly correspondence with his theme, where as Monet require the viewer to dig a little deeper, to find a correlation between his title and theme.

Color Game - "Expressions in Color"

Unable to post my power point presentation so I will type the game here.

Color Game Title "Expressions in Color"
Instructions: choose 1 answer for each question or fill in the blank for a total of 20 point per question. There are 5 questions. The game is over when all 5 question have been answered.

1. Which term is the name of a color harmony?

a. intensity
b. value
c. analogous

2. ______ is the name of color according to the categories of the color wheel.

a. hue
b. value
c. subtractive process

3. A color lighter than the hues normal value is known as a _____________?

a. chroma
b. saturation
c. tint

4. Blue-green is a?

a. warm color
b. tertiary color
c. primary color

5. In light, ______ is the sum of all colors.

a. white
b. black
c. blue




ANSWERS: 1. c, 2. a, 3. c, 4. b, 5. a

Activity #2 - Re-write

Claude Monet created, The Japanese Footbridge, in 1899, oil on canvas.

Monet employs value, atmospheric perspective, the visual cue of position, analogous harmonies, as well as all of the raw material and elements that’s required to create good art work. Monet use values (pg. 92) of the color blue, on the footbridge above the pond. Values are shades of a color from light to dark. The lighter values lead me to believe that the sun is hitting the railing in these areas. He then applies the atmospheric perspective technique (pg.113) to the bushes/trees in the background, this shows objects getting softer and blurrier as they recede into space. This is followed by the use of the visual cue of position (pg. 107), looking down to see objects closest to us and up for objects further away. He positioned the lily pads on the water in such a way that my eyes where forced to follow the flow from the bottom to the top. He also used analogous harmonies (pg. 97), colors adjacent to one another on the color wheel. The blue rail, the blue- green, green-yellow, and yellow of the bushes/trees makes a beautiful contrast with browns of the water.

Still Life with Sweets and Pottery, 1627 by Juan van der Hamen y León, oil on canvas.

Both, Monet and Leon, used shape to compose their art. Monet used organic shape (pg. 88) in contrast to Leon’s use of geometric shape. Leon employs geometric shape, positive and negative shape, and figure. He used geometric shape (pg 87-88), to construct the round pottery dishes and pastries on what appears to be blocks of squares. Geometric shapes are two-dimensional form such as squares, triangle, circles, pyramid and sphere. Than he used positive and negative shape (pg. 89); the shape we perceive as figures is positive and the shape of the ground is negative. The dark brown shape in the background, adds a excellent contrast between the positive shapes of the foreground and gives a visual understanding of what direction the light is coming from. The shapes are also made to look three-dimensional by the use of value and shading. Next, he used figure (pg. 89), shape we detach and focus on. The color and texture of the red pottery vase in the center stands as a focal point; this attracts the viewer attention. Next he used, model (pg. 92), the use of light and shadow to give a three-dimensional appearance to the shapes, which brings the still life alive.

Activity #1: On Line Museum Visit

The Japanese Footbridge, 1899
by Claude Monet, oil on canvas



Still Life with Sweets and Pottery , 1627
by Juan van der Hamen y León, oil on canvas

Art 101-pasting from photobucket

This is a picture of waterlillies that I copied from "my documents" folder

Creative Blog/Activity#3

Activity #3

The two main balances are Symmetrical and Asymmetical Balance.

This composition demonstrates Symmetrical Balance. With the vertical axis down the center, the visual weight is evenly disturbed to both side of the composition.




This composition demonstrates Asymmetrical Balance. The placement of the trees and the greenery on the right is much heavier and adds more visual weight than the imagery on the left side of the photo.







entry #1 - This is a beautiful picture of the sunset. I love the different hues of red. This photo is very calming yet stimulating.



Entry #2 - I love nature and all four of it's season. This piece is called Winter Harmony. The artists uses atmospheric perspective. LOL! new art terminology that I just learned!



Entry #3 - I like the different values of the color blue in this photo. Only in the world of art could there be a blue forest.



Entry#4 - I like the contrast of light vs dark and the different shapes that are formed. It's simply a picture of water running over rocks







Entry#5 - The combination of cool and bold complemetary colors adds lots of enery to this photo. Fall is my birth season and my favorite season of the year.






Entry#6 - The Rainy Season by Belobrovsky Alexander - values of blue and green with contrasting light and dark.





Entry#7 - Silence by Kondrashov Sergey. A monochromatic piece. An excellent title for this piece.



Entry#8 - Claude Monet's, Women seated under the willow. A beautiful combination of cool colors. This has Monet's style all of it.



Entry#9 - The word refreshing comes to mind when I view those painting. I thought it was interesting with the cool blue sky contrasted by dark murky water.



Entry#10 - Albert Bierstadt's, Yosemite. I now know that he is one of my favorite artist. Again, I have contrasting dark and light colors. With a atmospheric perspective view of the mountains inthe background.




Entry#11 Assymeterical balance.




Entry#12 - Softly as in Morning Sunrise. This is computer art by Satoshi Matsuyama. I lthink this is a wonderful use of complementary colors.




Entry#13 - fall complimentary colors



Entry #14 - line and shape with implied lighting



Entry #15 Winter Harmony - A beautiful atmospheric perspective



Entry #16 - cool colors and values



Entry #17 light and dark contrast



Entry #18 - the color blue often gives a calm and serene mood.


Entry #19 Asymmeterical Balanceon the vertical axis


Entry #20 - Assymeterical balance on the horizontal axis