Thursday, March 4, 2010

Critique 2


The artist of this painting is Romero Britto. The name of this image is friendship. The media of it is graphic edition, silkscreen. The subject matter of this piece is friendship. The image is made up of different shapes and patterns.
In the field of this piece there are many squares and rectangles with various patterns and colors. Some of the patterns in this image contain lines of different colors. All the parts in this piece make up a composition. The compostion parts make the image a whole. A balance is made between shapes to make the piece to make separate parts become equal. Harmony is well used to put the figures together using shapes. There is a good amount of tone seeing as though there are many different colors. The colors of this piece make it much more interesting and set a happy mood. It is subtle that the white figure has two different patterns on its face. The foreground is the two figures that seem to be embracing each other. The water droplets coming from the cat licking the other figure implies that there is movement going on it this piece. The cat licking the other figure renders that they like each other and that they are friends.
The focal point i see in this image is the cats face. The reason why I think the cats face is the focal point is because its face is a solid yellow. Also that cats face is in the center of the image. The story that I see within the piece is a cat with a person or something that has taken care of that cat. The cat is thanking the other figure by licking its face. Also the white figure is hugging the cat showing that they are friends. There are some characteristics that make this piece strong. Such as the use of shapes,along with patterns used to put this image together. The amount of color makes the piece pleasing to look at. There are also characteristics that make the piece weak. A weak characteristic is not being able to tell what exactly the figure on the right is.

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