Assignment 6

                   Charles Burchfield
Wallpaper design. The qualities in this design are how you can feel the cold winter day, wet and sluggish. The trees are dead and the street is flooded with melting snow. Charles Burchfield based his work off of life experiences and what he was surrounded by. He also loved viewing nature. Charles grew up in Ohio and he first wanted to be a nature writer but then transferred to the visual aspect.

           Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
The Three Crosses is an etch that was done by the dutch artist Rembrandt. the qualities in this etch is how complex it is, the shadows and light are so unique. You can see the emotions in the people crying, sad and shocked. What Rembrandt did was express feeling and emotion especially trying to relate it in spiritual ways. He lived in the 1600's when religion was a very important aspect of its time the church had a lot of power. So him being surrounded by religion he wanted to express what visual he had on the spiritual life or the past stories.


                            Jasper Johns
Three Flags. This interested me because how the flags have the old tradition stars of only 48 on them. Also it is unique because of how vivid the colors are. Jasper has had many works of art that are very patriotic like Three Flags, Flag and Map, they all represent America. Jasper lived during the Korean War which may be his influence to these pieces. 

                              Jackson Pollock
The qualities I see in Jackson's paintings are how the first layer is dark so the top layer when using different/ brighter colors it really shows the complexion. Jackson did experiments with liquid paint he discovered and called one technique as the "drip" technique. His work is described as "action painting". A major influence in Jackson's life was his wife, he dealt with alcoholism which led to his death in a car accident. Jackson liked to be different and get involved in his work in a different way then most artists, he wanted it to be different and special.


                             Emil Nolde
The qualities I see in Emil's watercolor paintings are how greatly detailed they are. Having to work with watercolors in the past I know personally it is not an easy task but Emil makes his artwork look wonderful without any flaws. Emil was very interested in flowers and many of his works are focused on flowers like this one here. He was very interested in Vincent Van Gogh's work as he was his inspiration. Emil lived during a dark time when WWII was occurring Hitler rejected his work in museums. Emil therefore loved using colors he once mentioned the colors make him happy inside and express many good feelings.
                 
                                        Robert Rauschenberg
Robert makes his artwork unique by he makes his work "combined". He wanted the space between life and artwork to be defined and exposed. His concepts were consisted of combining the times and places into one, to show the importance of what he was trying to get across to the viewer.

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                             Balance
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Asymmetrical balance can be seen in Childe Hassams "Rainy Day, Columbus Avenue, Boston" by the woman and daughter to the left are closer to us as well as the horses and buggy on the left side of the painting make the left look "heavier and darker" but it is balanced on the right side by having bigger buildings and more people walking through the streets.                                                                                                                ^

                         Emphasis
Emphasis is where a artist makes the viewer focus on the focal point. When Anna Vallayer-Coster painted "Still life with Musical Instruments" what she did was make the viewer draw their attention to the violin. This attention is drawn there because of the object is in the middle, shaped differently and brighter. the second would be the book located to the left of the violin because of the bright white and how large the object is compared to the rest. The third object that would I focused on was the horn as I made my way from right to left that is the next interesting thing that my eyes see the old gold circular shape. 

                        Repetition
Repetition is when something is repeated over and over again, artists can show this by showing the same shapes, colors or regular patterns. Jacob Lawrence does this in "Story Painter" by having the women stand in the same pose with their arms held in the air with an object in their hands.

                     Contrast
Contrast and variety could be seen as opposite characteristics. In Frank Gehry's "Dancing Building" we can look at the building oddly shaped on the left as smooth from the glass, dark because we see dark features inside, again oddly shaped. The building to the right of it is painting fairly bright, but we know it is rough like cement and has a fairly normal build to it as much like any other buildings.

                          Visual Movement
In Raphael's "Raffaello Sanzio" this painting makes us have visual movement by having all the bodies focused in a pyramid like shape, for instance how their arms focus on one point then ones gaze makes us look at where they are looking .We see every person in the image looking at each other which eventually leads us in a movement that ends at the first person we looked at.

                         Scale
An artist may use at times scale or proportion to manipulate the size of an actual object. In this case Claes Oldenburg used "Saw". This saw is usually about an grown mans arm length but this one as seen is buildings high, pretending to saw through the earth. We would call this an "large-size" saw, obviously not real and for artistic purposes only.