The Haywain Artist: John Constable

This paper is going to be talking about this painting: Title: The Haywain; Artist: John Constable; Date: 1821. Most people see as an excellent example of how multiple elements and principles work together to create an outstanding masterpiece. First of all, this painting uses multiple types of lines, such as horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines on the house to the left of the painting, and curved, diagonal and vertical lines on the trees because the branches are somewhat diagonal and the stem of the tree to the trunk of it are curved then vertical. Next, is space, this painting uses this very well, as well as mainly positive space, a little bit of negative space if you count the pieces the blue sky from the patches in the clouds. Also, the shapes in this painting are good, most of it seems to be organic shape, but the house seems to be somewhat
Furthermore, the value in this painting seems to all over the place, but since there are clouds, most everything is shades of colors, except in the background where the sun is shining on the trees and bit of field, so that part of the painted is made of tinted colors. Now, onto the colors in the painting, they use two of the primary colors, red and blue, as well as one secondary color, green, this also uses multiple hues of the same color, blue and green; the value of the colors is there as well. Now, emphasis in the painting, the emphasis is on multiple things in the painting, such as the brick house to the left, or the wagon in the middle of the water, and the field and multiple trees to the right of the painting. The contrast in this painting is also very well done, because the kind of dull dark-ish colors are on the left leaning toward the middle of the painting, but the on the right side of the painting are the light