The Bridge By Joseph Stella

This art work by Joseph Stella captured my eye because of how colorful it is, almost making it mesmerizing with the different type of lines and shadows. Another reason I found this piece so interesting is that the canvas are very tall, making it seem like you’re look out of a large window. The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge) was made with oil and tempera on canvas. It seem like Joseph Stella was trying to captured different parts the bridge and try to tell a story through the 5 canvases and it creates a uniqueness to it. “Italian immigrant Joseph Stella painted and O. Henry wrote their impressions of the essence, or voice, of this mighty city. New York dazzled and overwhelmed newcomers with its bright lights,
The visual elements that this painting has is vertical, horizontal, sharped, curving, thick, thin, and irregular lines. It has an outline, geometric shapes, you can see triangles and circles, organic shapes, in the middle canvas it has deformed shapes that looks like shadows, and biomorphic shapes. Like the first canvas looks over the water and you see other bridge in the distance which shows it’s biomorphic because it’s based on natural objects.
The colors in the painting are half complementary. Which is a color schemes that emphasize two colors on the opposite of each other on the color wheel. For example and on the third canvas going from left to right, has the color red and green which are on the opposite ends of the color wheel. There is also analogous colors, where the colors and next to each other in the color wheel. On the second canvas it has blue and green which are next to each other on the color