Pullman Analysis
Description
This painting is called Pullman created by Hung Liu. It was created in 2004 and is an oil on canvas painting that is 66x132 inches. This painting is located in the Hunter Art Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Pullman is made up of mostly neutral colors. There are various repeating shapes, Circles and rectangles, in the background all of which look either red or
orange. The colors fading off of the two men in the foreground drips leading from their bodies down to the bottom of the canvas. Another interesting thing about this painting is there is a bottle in-between the two men and the left side of the canvas. The two men are the most detailed parts of the whole painting. The figures look as if they are in poverty, because they are wearing rags for clothes and neither are wearing shoes. The …show more content…
One element of art that is seen and repeated is this piece are lines. there are many types of lines seen in this painting. One type of line that is most obvious are the slow action diagonal lines that run from the left side of the portrait to the shoulders of the two figures standing in the center. There are also a numerous amounts of soft straight lines that run down the painting to give it the appearance of melting, this is used to draw your eyes down to the bottom of the painting. Shapes are another element of art that is seen in this painting. there are repeating circles and rectangles seen in different areas of this painting. this painting gives an implied mass by the way the artist wraps the lines around the body's of the two men in the middle give it 2 dimensional mass. In this work of art the artist uses several different types of implied depth to indicate shape. although it is not clearly seen in this picture the artist uses diminishing size and overlap. the figures overlap the beach that is in the background also the figures overlap. also, diminishing size is also seen because the man in
This painting is called Pullman created by Hung Liu. It was created in 2004 and is an oil on canvas painting that is 66x132 inches. This painting is located in the Hunter Art Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Pullman is made up of mostly neutral colors. There are various repeating shapes, Circles and rectangles, in the background all of which look either red or
orange. The colors fading off of the two men in the foreground drips leading from their bodies down to the bottom of the canvas. Another interesting thing about this painting is there is a bottle in-between the two men and the left side of the canvas. The two men are the most detailed parts of the whole painting. The figures look as if they are in poverty, because they are wearing rags for clothes and neither are wearing shoes. The …show more content…
One element of art that is seen and repeated is this piece are lines. there are many types of lines seen in this painting. One type of line that is most obvious are the slow action diagonal lines that run from the left side of the portrait to the shoulders of the two figures standing in the center. There are also a numerous amounts of soft straight lines that run down the painting to give it the appearance of melting, this is used to draw your eyes down to the bottom of the painting. Shapes are another element of art that is seen in this painting. there are repeating circles and rectangles seen in different areas of this painting. this painting gives an implied mass by the way the artist wraps the lines around the body's of the two men in the middle give it 2 dimensional mass. In this work of art the artist uses several different types of implied depth to indicate shape. although it is not clearly seen in this picture the artist uses diminishing size and overlap. the figures overlap the beach that is in the background also the figures overlap. also, diminishing size is also seen because the man in