Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Morning: Willows

Looking at basic formal analysis of art work we can compare and contrast the formal elements. Such things as form, subject matter content brings art to life. Line, color and texture give us a mix of styles from abstract to representational, canvas to clay. Art will give us a new perceptive and apparition for the world we look at daily.

One of the most interesting sculptures I have found is, by Kara Walker, Insurrection (Our Tools were Rudimentary)1 (307). The first thing to stand out, this piece is not your usual sculpture. White walls, black silhouettes show iconography, from the South, in the nineteenth-century, the interaction of master and slave. What makes this a sculpture is the light that is cast onto the walls gives space
Both Claude Monet’s, Water lilies, Morning: Willows3 (132) and Grainstack (Sunset)4 (116) are oil panting on canvas. They both depict a natural scene, in a peaceful setting. In the painting Water Lilies, we see the use of a restricted palette. Blues, being the water which combine to green to form the leaves on the tress and white showing the ripples in the water. The light and dark of the blue combined with the white give us movement, we see the rippling effect in the water. The swirl of brush strokes also help create this optical effect in this painting. Grainstack, in contrast is an array of colors, using an open palette. Primary reds mix with yellow to make orange and blend into green and than changing to blue. Even with different palettes, Water Lilies also combines the colors with blending one color into the next as does Grainstack, with an array of color instead of just the simple palette of blues to green . Blending of color gives the eye a soft transition and a seamless look. Grainstack, uses a soft line instead of the swirl stroke used in Water Lilies. Grainstack, also gives us a focal point of the large structure to the right of the painting giving it a a slightly off centered focus. However, Water Lilies, invites the eye to keep moving over the painting with no clear focal
The clean strait, lines and the pointed arches giving the effect of the structure is reaching up to the sky. In contrast, to the bulk style of a structure like the Pantheon6 (356). A large round dome makes up a concrete structure and Corinthian columns made of granite rise up to one hundred and twenty-one feet wide, massive and weighted down looking from the outside but inside space and openness like the gothic style. The Chartres Cathedral, uses the rib vault which allows a thin stream line look and not the need for the heavy weighted walls as the Pantheon. Use of a rib vault allowed for large gaps in the walls and did not jeopardize the soundness of the structure, and stain glass windows were placed in abundance. In contrast to the barrel vaults, like the Pantheon, built with only one source of illumination, called the oculus. Both styles, with large open space on the inside, the roundness of the dome and thick layering of concrete walls to the long pointed design structure, with many opening for outside light gives the airly feel to gothic