BP#2

This art piece was made Fredrick Mershimer, "Plymouth Street". He used mezzotint on paper for his medium.  He inscribed "1990" on the lower right of the piece. There are a lot of cooler colors in the painting. Overlapping can be seen in the painting as well, the building structures (one in front of another). The lines for the bridge (the blue one) that can somewhat appear to be a horizon is made up of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines. I don’t really see any negative space within this painting. It only appears to be positive space (everything in the painting matters). One thing about the painting that I did not notice right away was that there are two bridges in it. Also there are train tracks, that have been cut off by the building and the sidewalk. I choose this specific piece of artwork because it appealed to me in the colors I enjoy and would predominantly wear in my life. It also reminds me of the city and how the street lamps and cars light it up without any sunlight being involved. There is life in the painting as well, the lights in the building could mean people or just one person is still in the building, or that the lights were just left on like some buildings. Mershimer also gave us a time (1990), which shows us what he saw in that year. The image he painted may not be here to today just as those trains tracks weren’t cut off prior to the making of the structures in the painting.