In what way is dark and light colour used? The only dark colours really are blues, greens and purples.Would you describe the colours as being bright or dull? Are there more bright colours than dull colours (or vice versa)? All the colours are bright.Are there more warm colours than cool colours or vice versa? It’s mostly balanced but perhaps a bit on the warm side or that could be an optical illusion of the colours.Have contrasting colours been placed next to each other? Yes, seemingly everywhere.
Has a wide or narrow palette of colours been used? A very wide colour palate which is not all realistic but conveys an atmosphere of joy.Is there anything that you didn’t look at or thought wasn’t important? no.Did your eyes keep coming back to a particular part of the art work? That boat at the front.Is there anything that you didn’t notice at first but saw later in your reading? The little town in the background looks like it has a smoking chimney stack in it.Where do you end up? Do your eyes stray away from the work altogether? My eyes strayed out of the picture at the sky and then back in on the reflection on the water and the boats on the right.What initially catches your eye? Where do you go next? And after that? The boat in the foreground, then the boats behind in the middle ground, then the sky.The grid format wasn’t that great for the blog so I’ve split into more of a questions and answers format, but I keep the comparison grid that my tutor liked on the previous assignment feedback. © 2015 Georges Braque / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisĪgain, I’ve tried again to apply the techniques I learned in reading about the OU study diamond to this painting review. I have choose to use the one from the official website where the painting resides (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) as (hopefully) this should be the most faithful. They vary so much too, here are just two of the ‘versions’ of reproductions I could see online. Unfortunately, unlike the Cubist painting, I could not actually visit this one in person so I has to analyse an online reproduction. I tried to keep in mind Terry Smith’s four ways of looking as per assignment 3 feedback. I specifically picked this one because it seemed like this was when Braque was at his most Fauvist, you can tell that by the time he painted The Large Trees, L’Estaque, that he’s starting to waver. I picked this Fauve painting for annotation over the more obvious choices of Matisse or Derain because I thought it would be more interesting to compare two paintings of the same artist from the two (opposing) avant-garde styles of that period.
Braque came Fauvism late and left early but for a time was fully engaged. Following on from my Assignment 5 prep looking at a Cubist painting by Georges Braque, here I’m going to look at a Fauvist painting also by Braque – Yellow Seacoast also known as Boats on the Beach, L’Estaque.