Art Review for a Painting by M.Urosevic
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruzby an unknown artist
Reviewer: Marijana Urosevic
The painting is dominated by organic shapes and its colours are mostly analogous and not very complementary. The predominant colour is black, but you can also see a little bit of yellow and white. The contrast between the light coloured sleeves and dark dress and the backgroud in this painting is very intriguing and the shades give a feeling of coldness. The most interesting and exquisitive pattern in the picture is rendered by the sleeves, which are sphericaly creased in a wavelike symmetry. The texture provided by oil on canvas, with blended brush strokes, is flat, smooth and shiny.
Peerless shading is the main point of this picture, which makes it come alive.
The linear perspective is achieved through the position of the woman’s arms, which are in the foreground, gradually fading out into the dark background, together with a piece of magnet in her hands and a mysterious protruding brooch. Her dark body is in the middle ground, surrounded with inpenetrable, almost macabre background.
In my opinion a new title for this picture would be ‘A New Woman’ because it symbolizes a new type of women in that time, a woman who tried to do something for women’s rights and get an equal chance for learning. Very dark colours symbolize a difficult position of women in that period. They make you feel something strange, maybe a little bit of sadness caused by all the obstacles she has to cope with. The only bright thing in the picture is the lady who seems to be different from all others and who comes to change the world order. We could say that the theme of this picture is an emancipated woman who manages to overcome the limitations of her immediate surroundings.
This piece of art is emotional because the artist emphasized the mood and symbols, and at the same time functional since the artist intended the work to be educational. From my friends’ reactions I have noticed that men and women have different views. Men see an ordinary woman who does her everyday work. Women see a totally different person in this picture, they see an especially strong woman. Their comments also showed that they both noticed not so usual use of colours which made them feel an added value of this picture. I think that women are more interested in this painting because they emotionaly relate to the position of the woman in the painting and ordinary women from that time.
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The painting is dominated by organic shapes and its colours are mostly analogous and not very complementary. The predominant colour is black, but you can also see a little bit of yellow and white. The contrast between the light coloured sleeves and dark dress and the backgroud in this painting is very intriguing and the shades give a feeling of coldness. The most interesting and exquisitive pattern in the picture is rendered by the sleeves, which are sphericaly creased in a wavelike symmetry. The texture provided by oil on canvas, with blended brush strokes, is flat, smooth and shiny.
Peerless shading is the main point of this picture, which makes it come alive.
The linear perspective is achieved through the position of the woman’s arms, which are in the foreground, gradually fading out into the dark background, together with a piece of magnet in her hands and a mysterious protruding brooch. Her dark body is in the middle ground, surrounded with inpenetrable, almost macabre background.
In my opinion a new title for this picture would be ‘A New Woman’ because it symbolizes a new type of women in that time, a woman who tried to do something for women’s rights and get an equal chance for learning. Very dark colours symbolize a difficult position of women in that period. They make you feel something strange, maybe a little bit of sadness caused by all the obstacles she has to cope with. The only bright thing in the picture is the lady who seems to be different from all others and who comes to change the world order. We could say that the theme of this picture is an emancipated woman who manages to overcome the limitations of her immediate surroundings.
This piece of art is emotional because the artist emphasized the mood and symbols, and at the same time functional since the artist intended the work to be educational. From my friends’ reactions I have noticed that men and women have different views. Men see an ordinary woman who does her everyday work. Women see a totally different person in this picture, they see an especially strong woman. Their comments also showed that they both noticed not so usual use of colours which made them feel an added value of this picture. I think that women are more interested in this painting because they emotionaly relate to the position of the woman in the painting and ordinary women from that time.
http://lingvaachievers.blogspot.com/
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