Comrehending Art

I joined art school to satisfy my need to be a graphic designer. Graphic design always captured my imagination. If my eyes fall on billboard, magazine cover, or TV advertisement, I always wonder how is it done. I really admire the way it is made. It motivates me to learn the creative process of these wonderful advertisements and publication covers. Now, after a few weeks of school, I found myself asking am I really going to comprehend this type of art and actually be able to design a professional flyer or advertisement that people would see everywhere and think highly of.

I have a class called Craft of Writing, which is supposed to strengthen and prepare me for my academic and professional demands. The teacher handed me a variety of drawings and said, “These are the works of famous painters”. He asked me to write about my impressions and try to analyze them. I looked at the drawings and th

Mondrian was a Dutch painter who was born in 1872 (that's over 100 years ago!). At one time, Mondrian painted realistic landscapes, but as he painted more and more, his style began to change. He started to create abstract images. How did he come to paint this way? Well, the more Mondrian looked at trees, buildings, and vases, the more he saw their basic shapes and colors. You can try this too. Just squint your eyes while you are looking at something and all the details will start to disappear. You will see only shapes and color... no real objects. This is what Mondrian did. Eventually, Mondrian's style consisted of geometric shapes and primary colors. After all, every shape can be created from the basic geometric shapes and every color can be created from the primaries -- red, yellow, and blue.

A closer look at the painting reveals the muted colors. Green is the primary color, except for the dark blue sky, the yellow grass, and a touch of brown on the roof of the church. The painting has depressing mood due to the use of cool color pallet. Van Gogh used geometrical shapes in his painting. Pyramdic and rectangular forms of the ceilings give more altitudes to the cathedral. The wall drawings where painted in a rectangular physique with diversity in size, and colored in vertical elevation suggesting that the texture of the building is made out of wood. The church in the painting was a centrally located composition. The three-dimensional building carries all the weight in the painting. The whole background on the painting is dark blue that lacked any direct source of light. The only light I could see was the reflection of the sun on the grass in foreground of the painting. I am a still curious about the dark brush strokes on the sky horizon.

From the first look at the painting you will notice that the fantasy qualities of the painting are both beautiful and frightening at the same time. The back of the church has no doors and the rooflines are sweeping instead of architectural, making the physical structure appear to be more of a being than a building. The violet and orange colors of the tile roof are from the morning sun. The sky is from the afternoon. The shadow is from an evening light. Unifying the shading and colors of the day is something that emphasizes both the light and the darkness of the shadow of religion. The foreground is a concentration of yellow color in the grass, which is the lightest part in the whole painting. A road splits two paths into two paths, one leading to the church, and the other leading to the back. The primary subject in the painting is building of the church, which is the main body. It is located exactly in the center of painting, taking the whole width of the middle ground. The struc

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