Paul Klee - {Swiss} 1879 - 1940

"Tale à la Hoffmann" - (1921)

Watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard

Metropolotan Museum of Art, New York,

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This is an example of Formalsim

Around 1921 World War 1 started. This picture could be of a army soldier coming back looking completly differrent from when they left for war because of the hardships. Also Fauvism was popular back then. Fauvism is many bright colors like the ones in this painting. This also is very involved in shape, the face is made up of them. I think that this is a mixture of Geometric and Organic shapes. The geometic shapes are the squares, rectangles and triangles that appear most often in the face. The organic figures are the eyes and shoulders because they aren't noraml shapes, they are made and changed by the artist.

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He is still alive today, birth date unknown...
Painted by Antonio Zamora {Mexican}
called Sunset,
13.5×10.5 in.
Water Colors 1999
Where the painting is currently kept is unknown...
This is a picture by a Mexican artist.
During this time period it was very near to the turn of the century so the sun setting could be like the sun setting on the old century. Also back then Op art was very popular. Op art is when artist use color ,line and shape to focus the eye to another part of the painting. This is examples of warm colors. They compliment and accent the blue of the ocean.









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Faith Ringgold (American) b. 1930

Tar Beach 2 1990 Silkscreen on silk 66 x 66"
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

I got this picture from... http://faithringgold.com/ringgold/d09.htm

I believe that this picture is a symbol of Formalism.

During this time period Cubism and Fauvism were very popular. Fauvism is many bright colors like in this painting and Cubism is when you show a person more then 1 view of 1 thing.

This is a very good example of line. The many lines in the buildings and city sky-line draw your eye to it. Then you notice the family in the front of the painting. I also think the linesof the patio are very dividing.

This was made by William McGuinness {Irish} 1913-1991

It was titled Untitled Landscape

It was painted in Watercolour

Size 9”x 6”

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This is a picture from my culture, since I'm Irish and this was painted by an Irish Artist. During this time Adolf Hitler was born. There was a large volcanic eruption in southwest Alaska. The foggy feeling could be like a heavy weight of the disturction over southwest Alaska. I think that this paitnings is a very good example of value. Value makes the image lok 3-D. I think value is key here because it really makes you feel like you are looking at the image for yourself. Value also refers to the lightest and darkness of paintings. I think that this applies because it goes from light to dark from inside to out.

Cassatt, Mary

Portrait of a Little Girl

1878 Oil on canvas

89.5 x 129.8 cm

National Gallery of Art, Washington

This picture is an example of emotionalism. Around the time this picture was painted many people were moving inot the united states. The little girl in the chair could be waiting for someone to play with, or for others to come.

I got this picture from...http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cassatt/cassatt_little_girl.jpg.html

I think that this picture is a very good example of form. The form in this painting makes the chair that the girl is sitting in come alive. Normally sculpters use form but is it also very common in paintings. Also it almost looks like the legs og the girl are lifting off the page and the chair.

Mary Cassatt {American}, 1844 - 1926 Girl Arranging Her Hair, 1886 oil on canvas, 75.1 x 62.5 cm (29 5/8 x 24 5/8 in.) Chester Dale Collection 1963.10.97
I got this picture from...http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=4850 During this time period there was the Great Depression. The tired looking colors could be of the feeling of the people during that time period. Also America was becoming a very popular place to live so this painting could be showing how people were learning new things from the other people coming from differrent places.
This is an example of Impressionalism.
I think that this paintings is a very good example of texture. When artists incorperate texture into their paintings they try to duplicate the look of something in a way that you can interprite the texture. In this painting the girls dress, skin, hair and body all have a sense of texture.

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Faith Ringgold {American} b.1930,

About the artowrk...The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles, 1991

Acrylic on canvas, tie dyed, pieced fabric border, 74 x 80 inches, Private Collection

About the artist... Faith Ringgold is an artist and a writer. In her paintings she combines painting,quilted fabric and storytelling.

Her connections with VanGogh... I know that Vincent VanGogh also paints sunflowers. I also know that many other artists like to duplicate and reinvent his pictures.

Some other things i found out is... Arles, where the paintingtakes place is a town south of France. It is an ancient town.

My thoughts on the painting... I think that it is possible that the family is telling a story while making the quilt. Faith Ringgold is famous for combinding storytelling into her paintings so the quilt might represent a story being told from the family of all girls. Also if you look on the border edge you see a quilt on the outside of the painting. This could be like a story about a story.

Some questions to keep you thinking... Why is the painting of all girls except for the man bringing in sunflowers? Do you think the sunflowers could be representing anything? If you look close at the backround and setting what do you notice? Is there a reson that the ladies are out in the middle of a sunflower field? What do ou think about the stroy as a whole? Do you think anything in the picture could be portraying something else?