Analyzing Alexander Young Jackson's Landscape With Willows

The painting I chose to do is called “Landscape With Willows”. This portrait is made by Alexander Young Jackson (A.Y. Jackson). To make this painting Jackson travelled to Quebec and sketched the image out. Then, he returned and made his rough sketch into a painting. To show his painting as a spring/summer day. He used different shades of neutral colours such as green, blue, yellow and some red. The painting looks like a plain field with some trees in the middle and in the background. There is not a lot of detailed paint work done besides on the trees in the middle and the fence to the side. The painting looks simple and plain because of the colours and the design used.

In the painting, Jackson chose to emphasize some element such as space, colour, and line. For space, he left out some details in the background and in the background. Thus, creating the illusion of positive space and negative space. The second element which is showed as significance in the painting is colour, throughout the whole painting, there are a couple of colours that he made standout. He used different shades of colours and blending techniques to make the painting look
Jackson overall message, in my opinion, was to show the Canadian landscape in a unique way, so the viewer could see a different perspective of Canada. The uniqueness of this painting is that Jackson was able to capture the big image rather than the whole detailed drawing. This can be found on the ground of the painting, the grass is missing a lot of details and so is the sky. I also think the colours and the way it was painted is special to this piece as well. The colour is very bland and blended but has some brightness to it, seen at the ground with the yellow and green. As the colour are very plain and simple, this can give off a relaxing feeling to it, which is a type of perceptive he may have wanted to give off. This piece of scenery must have stuck out to him, so much that he painted