Blog Post #6

The work of art I chose from the Metropolitan Museum is "Landscape With an Aqueduct" by Theodore Gericault. It was better for me to type in “landscape” since it consist of better examples of proximity and space.

As you can see, this piece of art explicitly shows the three areas of proximity and space. The foreground is the whole left side of the painting. The tree overlaps the gray clouds so it appears closer. So does the architectural structure, it also overlaps the bridge, cutting it off. I noticed the colors used in the right side are lighter since it seems there is sunlight reflecting on them. So the left side is composed of darker colors and it helps create the illusion of them being closer. The middle ground is the bridge in the water and that architectural structure on the greenish mountain/hill. The background is the sky and the huge grey mountain behind the architectural structure. As you can see the first greenish mountain, the house that looks like a castle seems to be over lapping the grey mountain. This creates a sense of depth and makes it look like the mountain is further away. The hill/mountain all the way on the right also looks smaller and further away creating relative size. If you squint you painting also use trees and they also keep getting tinnier as they keep getting further away. To me the dark seems to be taking over the bright side. I think that the huge mountain is blocking the vanishing point. This piece of art has two-point perspective. You can see the corner of the two architectural structures in the middle. I think this painting is at and above eye level. I really like this painting it's so nice and soothing. 

Here is my drawing I did of my kitchen :)