Joseph Wright created “The Corinthian Maid”, in 1782-1784, oil on canvas, and Claude Monet “The House of Parliament, Sunset, in 1903, also an oil on canvas. Both paintings display an array of design details, like texture, color, shape, mass and line.
Speaking of lines, in addition to actual lines, vertical lines, and lines formed by edges, our eyes also pick up on lines that are only implied. (86) Both Wright and Monet use vertical lines in their paintings, but differ in color. Wrights choice of red-orange, which can be seen on the dress of the woman and the pants of the man are warm colors. (95) Like the color wheel, the sky beyond the building is illuminated with primary colors: red, yellow and blue and also has texture. (94) The implied texture of Wrights painting is smooth and fine with a dark tone. In contrast, Monet’s painting has more of a visual component as well as a tactile one. (104) Monet’s painting in its two-dimensional space has a shape that is created from the building reflection on the water with identifiable boundaries. In contrast, Wright’s painting has a three-dimensional space, that is, the actual space in which our bodies also stand. (106) In conclusion, Monet and Wright use a variety of colors and lines to make their artwork, and that is also where they differ.
Joseph Wright created “The Corinthian Maid”, in 1782-1784, oil on canvas, and Claude Monet “The House of Parliament, Sunset, in 1903, also an oil on canvas. Both paintings display an array of design details, like texture, color, shape, mass and line.
Wright used implied lines, which act as a series of dots that are spaced closely enough that our mind connects them (86). Wright uses the position of the arms and legs in order to show the linear perspective in which there figures look stiff and motionless. Cool colors are used in the background of Monet’s painting; in contrast Wright chooses warm colors (95). Like the color wheel, the sky beyond the buildings is illuminated with primary colors, while the clothes on the man and woman are of a more secondary color (95). The texture of Wrights painting is smooth and fine, while Monet’s has more of a rough unrefined look (103). In it’s two-dimensional form the shape that is created from the buildings on the water are identifiable boundaries and the mass three dimensional form that occupies the volume of space in Wright’s painting is denoted by the open doorway (87).
In conclusion, both paintings are similar in line but differ in mass
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Dear Emory,
This essay has the components required to meet the assiginment.
1. Purpose: The art terms are named, defined but in some cases have not correcsponding support from examples from the artworks.
Implied line - what in which painting has implied line?
What are warm colors? where are they on the color wheel?
What is texture implied or real?
2. Features: The essay contains the names and so forth of the artworks, and the page number citations, however the essay is very disorganized and jumps from thought to thought with little or no transitions. At times it is difficult to discern which artwork is being discussed.
"buildings is" this is improper grammar.
There is not conclusion for this essay.
3. Critical Thinking: Would be stronger if the supporting documentation was more clear.
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