Inti International College Penang
Art Appreciation (ART 105)
Individual Assignment (Project 2)
Name: Lim Shi Ning
IC.No: 930829-08-5044
a) Artwork 1
b) i) Title of the artwork – Flower Stall In Kampung
ii) Name of the artist – Zakariah Noor
iii) Media – Oil On Canvas
iv) Date of origin – 1993
c) Content: In the artwork above, two ladies could be seen operating a flower stall under a big tree beside the narrow dirt road. One of the ladies operating the flower stall is wearing a pink head scarf and she is older of the pair. There are three female customers consisting of two adults and a child currently at the store. Two more females could also be seen walking away from the flower stall. All the characters in the artwork are seen wearing traditional Malay clothing. The older lady operating the flower stall has a lot of facial expression and she is currently packing a bouquet of flowers together. The younger lady operating the flower stall is sitting on her left with a rattan basket on her lap. There are some flowers in her rattan basket and she is packing them together. The lady customer with a young child is busy choosing the flowers she wants from the basket placed in front of her while the other lady customer is still deciding on what flowers she wants.
d) Technical Innovations: This artwork consists of a lot of texture. The canvas itself has a rough surface and oil based paint will leave behind some medium after it was dried. By using oil on canvas, the artist is able to create an artwork which rich in actual texture after it was completed. The artist had also created value in this artwork. The characters and objects in the artwork shows value as each of them have a combination of light and darkness tone on them. The artist had used a combination of different values of the same colour when painting the characters and objects. The artist had used a lot of pigmentation in creating this artwork. As a