It was kind of hard for me to find a painting that catches my eye, but I found one. Elizabeth Murray's painting "Terrifying Terrain" that looks 3D, and has a overlapping feel to it. This is very interesting to me because when I first saw it reminded me of a broken compass I seen in a movie, shapes like triangular broken metal pieces. This painting symbolize "a rock-climbing trip in Montana" explained by Elizabeth she said that these are pieces of the rocks overlapping that has broken off as she climbed to the top. As she explained the colors she picked "Here, a bright red dress floats incongruously over the center of the dark green landscape, adding a surreal note and suggesting a hidden layer of meaning." This shows that she uses color to some how connect to when she was at her trip in Montana. |
Terrifying Terrain
Artist: Elizabeth Murray (American, Chicago, Illinois 1940–2007 Washington County, New York )
Date: 1989–90
Medium: Oil on shaped canvases
Classification: Paintings
From: The Metropolitan Museum of Arts
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Elizabeth Murray uses a lot of Visual Elements in her painting to describe her emotions and ideas. She uses a lot of lines such as; vertical lines that's symbols her strength, horizontal lines which shows her calmness, and diagonal lines results of her actions. These line shows her emotions in her painting. Implied 3D shapes, shapes that are geometric such as the triangular shapes and the organic shapes that goes with the flow of the painting. This painting shows a lot of negative space, but a positive space also. As it is mention this painting has an overlapping feel to it because it reflects on the rocks she climbed. There are some value in this painting the light is bright colors which are were the white is and the darker parts of the painting is where there are no light.This painter uses primary colors red, blue and yellow to show warm colors(yellow, and red) and cool colors(blue). When you look at this painting the texture that's implied is a rough feel because there are pointy pieces of this object which is a painting.
Nice choice and nice work looking for the visual elements- you observe many of them well, especially shapes and texture. You have good observations and ideas- try to expand them in your writing. For example, you can elaborate on what you wrote about negative and positive space by telling us where you see that being used in the work. Also, what about your own interpretation? Do you see rock climbing? It's not the first think I would think of- what are your thoughts on this work?
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