Tranquil City Painting Analysis
This is a picture about a beautiful and tranquil city, and I think this is in the past, since the building style, the people’s clothes and the carriage looks pretty old. In terms of the feeling of watching this painting, I feel greatly relieved from the burden from heavy study, which really ease my mind and relax my body. This is a beautiful painting, and now I will analyze this painting, talking about 3 art elements and 3 principle of design about it. First, the art element I would like to talk about is color. As we all know, color acts as a very role in so many paintings, and as for this painting, color also plays an important part. The reason is, in this painting, all the objects are presented by different colors. More detailed, we can
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Line is important element in a painting, especially for a painting of a city, since many construction and building are consist of lines. Similarly, this painting contains so many lines. Basically, most of the line in this painting are straight lines, of which some are horizontal straight lines, such as the lines on the purple building in the middle of the painting and the line on the orange building in the left hand side. Also, on these building and on the closest building in the right hand side, there are some vertical straight lines. Besides, there are some angular lines in the purple building between the orange and taller purple building, so are in the river bank in the lower left middle. Interestingly, the only curved lines in the painting is the plants near the purple building, it turns upwards and downwards, making the painting more vivid. In both sides of the river, there are also some diagonal straight lines. The principle of design I want to analyze is movement. In t painting, sometimes lines will indicate implied directional movement. In this painting, I think the line in the left hand side river bank, the line in the bridge and the line in the right hand side river band may imply the directional movement, lead the viewer right lower corner. In the same way, in the sky, there are two implied line, one is from sunshine to right, one is from sunshine to the middle, means the spread of the
Line is important element in a painting, especially for a painting of a city, since many construction and building are consist of lines. Similarly, this painting contains so many lines. Basically, most of the line in this painting are straight lines, of which some are horizontal straight lines, such as the lines on the purple building in the middle of the painting and the line on the orange building in the left hand side. Also, on these building and on the closest building in the right hand side, there are some vertical straight lines. Besides, there are some angular lines in the purple building between the orange and taller purple building, so are in the river bank in the lower left middle. Interestingly, the only curved lines in the painting is the plants near the purple building, it turns upwards and downwards, making the painting more vivid. In both sides of the river, there are also some diagonal straight lines. The principle of design I want to analyze is movement. In t painting, sometimes lines will indicate implied directional movement. In this painting, I think the line in the left hand side river bank, the line in the bridge and the line in the right hand side river band may imply the directional movement, lead the viewer right lower corner. In the same way, in the sky, there are two implied line, one is from sunshine to right, one is from sunshine to the middle, means the spread of the