Visual Analysis Of Runway By Curtis Kelly

When you picture a runway, what do you imagine in your head? Do you visualize a blank white runway or do you picture something colorful. The majority of people you ask will lean more towards the blank white design but, not Curtis Kelly. When looking at Curtis Kelly’s work called “Runway”, she utilizes geometric shapes like you have never seen it before. The colorful chic oil on canvas painting has irregular yet often a wide variety of shapes that is seen in her work of art. The lines are going everywhere. From diagonal, to horizontal, to broken lines, you name it. This oil on canvas painting portrays a diversity in many colors. It almost seems as if a rainbow overcame this runway and burst open. When viewing it at first, I was not so sure on what I was viewing. All I could think of was Disney world due to the colors. It looks almost as if it is a joyful place to be, but it turned out to be a runway. In the painting you do have quite a few of
Whether it is the image that was made or the colors that was used to make the art work, I do not feel as if it is a successful piece if my eye was not drawn to it. In “Runway” by Curtis Kelly, there is a gap between unity and variety in this piece of work. There is a huge variety of colors and lines in this work. Like the creations was not going to come to an end. One moment you notice straight lines and the next zig-zag to half cut triangles. The natural elements that portray this piece of work combines into something whole to form a whole mixture to keep your imagination flowing of ideas and thoughts. When I closely observe this oil on canvas painting, I try and put myself in the artists shoes and think what they are trying to convey. What I see is to display fashion in a more colorful way. I feel as if Curtis Kelly is trying to display the difference between runway shows today and how they are so blank from her point of