HW: 5/25

For your last homework assignment, please
(1) find 3 quotes from chapters 9 and 10 (total of 6) from What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20.
   CHAPTER. 9
   - You need to come to terms with the fact that if you really want to accomplish something, it's up to you to do so
   - The very worst outcome results when all of the teams decide to compete against one another.
   - Life isn't a dress rehearsal, and you won't get a second chance to do your best.

   CHAPTER. 10
   - The environment is filled with flaws and flowers, and we each decide which to embrace.
   - Your "Power" comes from the position you hold.
   - Most things in life, especially our failures, aren't as important as we think they are at the time.

(2) Post your art criticism on your blog.

The Scream


   This painting is 'The Scream'. It is painted by Edvard Munch, in 1893.

 

DESCRIPTION

On the bridge there is a screaming man wearing black clothes with no hair, and two people behind him. There are also brown bridge, dark blue sea, and red sky on the background. As you can see these things, most lines are curvy. So I guess textures are smooth and cool.

ANALYSIS

The major colors are Red and Black. Red color is used on the background sky, and the bridge. And Black color is entirely used. The colors are mostly dark and it makes gloomy mood. therefore, the intensity of the colors seems dull.

There is a contrast between red sky and blue sea on the background. And on the front, Black and Brown color is dominant such as a floor of the bridge, people's wearing and shading. But this painting is not detailed and dark, so it's hard to distinguish shading and just black drawing.

This painting has perspective. The screaming man on the foreground looks bigger than two people behind him, the other things on the background are very small, and the bridge becomes narrow toward the end.

TECHNIQUE

The artist painted it on canvas with oil. He said he was walking around the river with his friends. At sunset, the sky turned into crimson and he suddenly felt gloomy and depressed. He tended to describe his feeling by painting.

INTERPRETATION

The theme of this painting is emotion. He might drew the man who is screaming first, because he just wanted to show his desperate feeling. It seems that the other things are not important.

The crimson red sky shows desperate feelings and the dark blue sea means gloomy mood. The man standing alone symbolizes the artist himself. He is losing his focus and screaming because he is suffering from bad things.

I would like to give a new title for this, 'Don't follow me!'. He seems to be chased by two man behind him. They look like Grim Reapers. He is afraid of the death and trying to run away from them.

JUDGMENT

This work is not representational, because it's painted simply, and the shapes are not elaborate and noticeable. And it's expressionistic, everyone can notice what it means. And it's valuable for its own expressiveness.
Through this painting, I realize that my inner side has a gloomy side.
　
(3) Wrap up your final comments for the semester.

   - ok! complete!