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ACTIVITY
In
Art Appreciation
(GE 105)

Table of Contents
 BASIC ART APPRECIATION
o SLIDE 6 –Description
o SLIDE 8-Analysis
o SLIDE 10-Interpretation
o SLIDE 13-Judgment

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Villanueva, Sydney Brailyn Prof. Lilian Dela Cruz

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PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG SAN PABLO
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Patriotism • Leadership • Service • Professionalism
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DESCRIPTION (PICTURE 1, “Barricade”)

What do you see?

*Title, Artist, Size, medium, and process

*Subject, object and details

*Objective- opinion not valid at this stage

The Title of the Artwork shown in the picture is Barricade. It is made by

Jose Clemente Orozco in the year 1931. The medium used is oil in canvas and its
size is 140 x 114.3 cm. In the painting, you will see five men-4 shirtless and 1 with
shirt. They are placed near to each other. From right you will see three men, one of
them is fully clothed and is in crouched form with a knife in his hand and the other
two is behind it. When it comes to left side you will see the back of the shirtless
hunch man and extending his arm to the right while holding a red cloth. He also
has two bullet straps across his back. And beside him another shirtless male facing
the viewer with his arm extended forward and his feet closely placed together.
There is also a rope placed around his feet. He is also leaning his back on
something and is in slanted position. And as we see in the painting the two bigger
men on the left are balanced by the three smaller men on the right. The painter,
Jose Clemente Orozco, used vibrant red to the cloth and used a brighter value of
blue on the pants of the men on the left. He limited number of colors used in the
painting, but was still able to create strong emotions in the viewer usuing different
values of those colors.

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ANALYSIS ( PICTURE 2, “The Blue Wall”)

How is the work organized?

*How does the artist use the Elements of art and Principles of design ?

Leo Twiggs use the elements and principles of art in his painting by doing
the ancient process of batik. He began to experiment with the process on his own,
recognizing that the medium could produce color variations that ran the gamut
from jewel-like intensity to faded remnants of the past. The lines and textures,
which he achieved when the wax cracked and the dyes ran over and into each
other, produced an effect that he was not able to realize through painting. Batik's
African connection as a traditional process used to decorate fabric also attracted his
interest. Twiggs's early work in batik reflected on his work, The Blue Wall.

*What stands out in the artwork?

The thing that stands out in the artwork is the two boys who is thin and lost
in their own estrangement, and also the color that Artist Twig used in the painting
itself.

*What is the focal point?

The focal point in the art work is also the two boys and the shape of their
featureless heads suggest shadowy pre-natal silhouettes and link back in time to the
carved figures of their African ancestors, making past, present, and future resonate
within the familiar.

*How does your eye move around the artwork?

My eye moves directly at the center cause the focal point or the main subject
is in that spot, then I gradually look around the painting to see the quality or the
value of color did Mr. Twig use in it.

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INTERPRETATION ( PICTURE 3, “Cow’s Skull Red, White and Blue”)

What is the artist trying to communicate?

*Tell the meaning or the mood of the art based on the analysis.

In this work, O’Keeffe isolates a single skull, highlighting its jagged edges,
worn surfaces, and bleached color. To O’Keeffe, such bones represented the
desert’s enduring beauty and the strength of the American spirit, which is alluded
to in the striped background. 

*Must have evidence to support your claims.

First, this work was inspired by a drought in the American Southwest that
caused the death of many animals. O’Keeffe witnessed the drought and was
intrigued by the animal carcuses that littered the landscape. She even shipped some
of the bones back to her studio in New York. She knew she would want to paint
images of them one day.

*You play a detective, you need to try to understand what the artist was
thinking or feeling.

Here is what Georgia O’Keefe had to say about painting the Cow’s Skull
Red, White and Blue:

“To me they are as beautiful as anything I know…the bones seem to cut sharply to
the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho’ it is vast and
empty and untouchable.” (Source: AIC)

Interestingly, she painted this skull, in which she saw life, with artificial flowers.
This is a nod to the way graves were decorated in New Mexico.

So, after admiring the work simply for the visual appeal, I was fascinated to learn
about the drought. Also, I’d never known the flowers were artificial. Learning
about the symbolism has made me appreciate it on a much greater level.

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JUDGMENT ( PICTURE 3, “Cow’s Skull Red, White and Blue”)

Is the artwork successful?

*Determine the degree of artistic merit (skill)

*This is where you give your opinion about the work in two ways:

1. Is the artwork successful? Did the artist masterfully use the media? Did the
artist convey the message that was intended across?

Yes, Though she painted mostly in oils, O’Keeffe experimented with

multiple media throughout her career, including charcoal, watercolors and pastels.
But, pastels would be the only medium other than oil that she turned to regularly
over the years. Pastels offered her almost pure pigment and the ability to blur or
harden edges. Her fingerprints are often visible in her pastels, indicating that she
often pressed the pigment into the paper. Georgia did indeed intend to showcase
the beauty of dead things, in this case in the desolate, lonely deserts of New
Mexico. Therefore, this painting tells the story of its time by revealing to the
viewers the death of cattle in the blistering deserts of New Mexico; an example of
how loneliness and desolation can ultimately lead to death.

2. Personal opinion – Do you like it? Why or why not? What improvements
could be made?

Yes, Because the painting is too realistic actually at first I thought it was not
a painting and it was just a picture but when I found out that it was made of oil in
canvas I was amazed at how well it was made. For me, the artwork is well made
and I don't think I can suggest any more improvements for it.

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