A. Which artworks make an impact or impression on me? Why?
Milton Avery's Bucolic Landscape is a great picture. It just shows the natural rural setting and its relaxing setting. It is not filled with skyscrapers and pollution. This is just a nice old time picture.
Jean Helion's "Standing Figure is a unique work of art. It really stood out to me when I passed it in the art gallery. Its shapes all stand out distinctively yet they all fit together so well and I enjoyed examining it for a few minutes.
Vincent Van Gogh's "The Old Mill" just reminds me of a nice vacation setting. The background is very attractive and I was really impressed with this work.
Which artworks do I feel a connection with? Why?
I feel like everyone can feel some type of connections to this work of art. "Marie Ressort" by Roger de La Fresnaye. The work is so natural with a blend of humans and animals and the artist really blended them together so well in this work.
Raoul Dufy's "Le Pantheon et Saint-Etienne-du-Mont" immediately made me think about the changing of the season's, especially here in Buffalo when the weather changes from fall to winter and the very first snowfalls hit the ground.
Claude Monet's "Chemin de halage a Argenteuil" reminds me of a beautiful setting in a European city. It's nice to look at. You can see that their aren't too many clouds in the ski and the streets look welcoming.
Jackson Pollock's "Convergence" is a very large and attractive work to view. I would want to know why Pollock placed certain colors where he did and what this work of art means to him.
Robert Rauschenberg's "Ace" is a large work with sections that are put together. I would like to know more about this work and ask Robert why he took small pieces and images and made them stand out in a 3-dimensional way. I read about him in Living for Art and think it would neat to find out more about this work.
Chaim Soutine's "Carcass of Beef" is a very graphic work. I would like to know more about this work and ask the artist what their reasoning behind this work was. Are they against killing animals or do they just find the colors and the idea of this image visually appealing?
I also chose Pollock's convergence. I thought it was amazing to see up close with all of the different colors and lines of paint he used throughout the whole piece, which you don't see much of from far away. Even though there is so much going on in that painting, everything seems to blend together when looking at it as a whole.
ReplyDeleteSomeone also told me that he was a heavy smoker and in the piece somewhere hidden under all of the paint, you can find a match he dropped when creating this piece....I couldn't find it.
I saw all of these paintings in the art gallery as well, but none of them ended up in my 9 pictures. I remember seeing that Carcass of Beef one and just saying ew and walking away, perhaps I should have gotten closer and asked the same questions as you.
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