African American Art Mural

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African-American Art
A mural is an artwork of painting that is applied on the wall, permanent surface or ceiling. One of the distinguishing elements of a given mural is the architectural feature that is harmoniously attached on the image. Wall paintings are sometimes painted on canvases and then attached on walls. However, this is subject to controversy in the field of art. There are two types of murals in African and American setting. They include; Photographic mural and painted or image murals. Artist using photography mural can design their photographs in different styles. Materials that can be used in photography mural are aluminum, canvas, vinyl and board materials. Photographic mural does not
The painting is in the Norton Simon Museum at 411 W Colorado Blvd, in Pasadena at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Groove. This piece of art stems from the period of 1878 to 1880 found under the European Art 19th century collection. The star is an oil painting on pastel and gouache mounted on board measuring (56.5 × 75.6 centimeters). The young girl in the painting probably fifteen years of age is performing a ballet dance. The dancer has worn a light blue dress decorated with orange flowers and orange hair band. The impression is of a live performance by experienced dancer pulling “a dancer on pointe” move.
As portrayed in the scenery, the dancer gestures to an empty side on the right side of the stage with her left arm. The painting is a unique balance of color, figure and movement. It has a fine composition fashioned from six different pieces of paper of which Degas added as he supposedly changed and enlarged the painting design.
Degas had noticed that the steps ballerinas took were of high ballet dancing skills. Through this painting, he powerfully expressed this discovery through the girl’s posture showing movement by rough brushstrokes and space on the right side of the stage. The young dancer strikes a position that is hard and almost impossible to sustain for more than a few seconds thus the name “on pointe”.
Formal elements in the
Impressionism can be said to be one of the first modern art movement in painting as started and developed in Paris in the period of 1860. Its influence was significant as it spread in Europe and the United States. These artists were turning away from the old artistic impressions of fine finish and detail that inspired most artists at that time.
Impressionists aim was to capture the immediate effect of the scene to the attention of the seer. This style referred to as representational art because it did not necessarily portray a realistic depiction despite it dealing with real life scenes. Moreover, science in the 19th century began to discover that the human eye perception and understanding in the person’s brain were two very different things. These artists then capitalized in this discovery and chose to capture the impact of a scene as seen by the