Art Criticism
In today's blog post, we are going to critic or judge two artworks from the web.
The first artwork is from an artist from Indonesia. His name is Hendra Gunawan. The name of this artwork is called 'Family Portrait'.
This painting consists of five people in the foreground. There are two females and three males who are in pose for a family portrait. In the background, there are a lot of other families. The colours used are warm colours.
The painting is made from, oil on canvas, a medium which is hard to handle. The background which consists of a lot of other people suggests that there is an event happening. However, the man who is sitting, is being focused. His skin has splashes of yellow, green and blue which makes him stand out. Perhaps it shows that he is important to the family, may be the leader of the family.
The painting depicts a family portrait whereby a lady is weariing batik clothes. This picture looks like a family reunion as the man's clothes is a little different in terms of type. Only the man is wearing pants made of different type of cloth. While his family is wearing clothes made from the same kind of cloth.
Comparing this artwork from his other artworks, this artwork gives viewers a humble and solemn feeling. While other of his artworks use vibrant colours. This shows that this painting was painted in a formal feeling. Something that is worth to remember would be the way everyone in the painting is dressed. It shows that they do not have a lot of money to buy stylish clothings and they practice their culture.
The next artwork is from a european artist named Anthony Gormley. The artwork is called 'European Field'.
I think this artworks takes a lot of time and effort as it has 40,000 clay figures placed in the room. I think that the figures might represent the people of Europe as there are some clay figures with different colours. I think the two people posing at the back are just playing around with the figures as they look like they are having fun. This artwork has been placed in the Tudor Manor in New Zealand for an art exhibition.
In our opinion, this is an amazing artwork as it has a wonderful view of these little people and we hope to go to the manor to experience it ourselves. However we still have questions regarding the artwork. Why must it be 40000 clay figures? Why small figures?
With that we hope that you will read and like what we have posted for today. Thank You
How can we compare any similarities and differences in both artworks?
ReplyDeleteWe can also compare in similarities by the focus of the artwork. Both arwork focuses on groups of people. In 'European Field', it focuses on the people of Europe while in 'Family Portrait' it focuses on a family.
Deletewe can compare the differences and similarities by the medium of the artwork the family portrait is a painting while the 'European Field' artwork is a sculpture we also can take a look at the color used in the both artworks showing if the artwork is a dull and gloomy or a happy and vibrant one we also can compare if the elements of the artworks if they are somewhat simillar
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think that the sculpture is called "European Field"?
ReplyDeleteI think the artist wanted to do a field of Europeans by making small clay figures to reprresent them.
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