Right To Left Approach In Chevy By Edwin Landseer

In “Chevy” by Edwin Landseer, he uses some of the same approaches and different approaches of the development of the painting than Jules Breton. Jules Breton uses a linear approach, but unlike “Fire in a Haystack” that use right to left approach. The direction of this artwork is linear from right to left approach. The focal point that draws attention to the artwork is of the dog huddled against a dead deer in the center of the picture. The line orientation seem to be common in this picture; the way the dog body, antlers, and the mountain are curve in all the same way. It draws you to the lower left corner of the picture. Just like “Fire in a haystack” the mountains in “Chevy use atmospheric or aerial perspective”. This mean they use the quality
of the atmosphere between large objects such as mountains and us to change their appearance (BOOK). Objects father away from us often are more bluer/lighter in color and the contrast is less the further away the object is. The birds and the mountain in “Chevy” have this appears to show the mountains and snow in the background. The contract on the dog and the dead deer is astonishing, it shows us that they are near and the rest of the scene is further away. The temperature of the colors seem to be cool expect for the dog and the deer which are living creatures. Gives you a sense of the living things being warm and the snow being cool by the colors used in the painting.