Sidney Goodman Figures In A Landscape

n Sidney Goodman’s “Figures in a Landscape,” painting represents a family. A father, a mother, and a young daughter spending time at a playground. The painting represents a 1980s family, because of its architectural designed houses in the background. Moreover, the picture persuades a deeper meaning than presented on the paper. The artist has painted the idea of a broken down family by shades of color, and by the family’s gestures.
The views are able to see that the shades of the grass on the ground are bright and dark. The bright shades and the dark shades represent the ups and downs of this family. Furthermore, the clouds cover above the father’s head; on the other side, we see the mother under sunlight. We can say that the clouds mean that the father is struggling, and the mother is the person with hope for the future. Furthermore, the child is the key element for this picture.
Sidney Goodman’s shows the viewers a perspective of a falling family. The child sits in the middle of the father and mother, which creates a triangle among them. This means that the child connects the parents and that she is the main reason that her parents are still together. This picture makes me have pity upon her because she tends to receive pressure from her circumstances of the family. The artist distant her from her parents and puts her in front of the painting. I believe that her parent’s actions have an effect on her. She is not looking at her parents; however, her head is down, which represents shame and disappointment. The mother and the father have a different gesture too, and they include an emotional feeling for this