Raphael The School Of Athens
Laura M Darden
Professor Johnson
Art Appreciation
17 November 2014
The school of Athens From the book Living with Art I chose Raphael. The School of Athens on page 160. This painting took place in Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. Rome. This is a naturalistic stylized pace of art. The two visual elements of design that I saw in the Raphael painting, is color, and space. There are both horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines to making up the arches and all the columns. An implied line is in each group of men and women in this paining. The group of young women and men in the bottom right hand corner are looking up at the ceiling as like the man are trying to describe the structure of it. The arch emphasis allusion to make the person looking at it focus more on the center of all the people and their action. Everyone in the painting have togas on and have pens or a piece of paper in their hands. The color scheme for this painting is a sort browns, greens, yellows, oranges, reds and blues. In the painting for instance on the roof in the top left hand corner, there are two people and a round blue globe type object painted on the celling. The first arch you see in the painting is painted with yellow maize pattern. In the upper right hand corner of the painting there are multiple people in an argument and a baby on the ground in the middle. There is a honey comb pattern on the roof in the hall way behind the line of people on the top step under the first arch. The space in this painting makes it seem three dimensional because of the allusion and the implied line and the shading on the people and the intense color on certain people in the painting. The linear perspective is the man that is leaning on a box in the middle of the flour and the two men in the middle on the top step. The man that is leaning on the boxes body is twice as big as the two men in the back, which makes you think if there the same height or are the two men just farther back. The statues on each of
Professor Johnson
Art Appreciation
17 November 2014
The school of Athens From the book Living with Art I chose Raphael. The School of Athens on page 160. This painting took place in Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. Rome. This is a naturalistic stylized pace of art. The two visual elements of design that I saw in the Raphael painting, is color, and space. There are both horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines to making up the arches and all the columns. An implied line is in each group of men and women in this paining. The group of young women and men in the bottom right hand corner are looking up at the ceiling as like the man are trying to describe the structure of it. The arch emphasis allusion to make the person looking at it focus more on the center of all the people and their action. Everyone in the painting have togas on and have pens or a piece of paper in their hands. The color scheme for this painting is a sort browns, greens, yellows, oranges, reds and blues. In the painting for instance on the roof in the top left hand corner, there are two people and a round blue globe type object painted on the celling. The first arch you see in the painting is painted with yellow maize pattern. In the upper right hand corner of the painting there are multiple people in an argument and a baby on the ground in the middle. There is a honey comb pattern on the roof in the hall way behind the line of people on the top step under the first arch. The space in this painting makes it seem three dimensional because of the allusion and the implied line and the shading on the people and the intense color on certain people in the painting. The linear perspective is the man that is leaning on a box in the middle of the flour and the two men in the middle on the top step. The man that is leaning on the boxes body is twice as big as the two men in the back, which makes you think if there the same height or are the two men just farther back. The statues on each of
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