In 1626, Domenichino used oil on canvas to paint “The Rebuke of Adam and Eve. Domenichino employs the design elements implied lines, values, triadic harmonies, foreshortening, atmospheric perspective, primary colors, and the use of a restricted palette to narrate this passage.
Directional cues, also known as implied lines are used to direct the viewer’s eyes down the line of sight. As God rebukes Adam, the blame is passed from Adam, to Eve, and from Eve to the serpent through hand gestures and finger pointing. Color values are also used in this painting. Value refers to relative darkness and lightness. Values of blue ranging from dark to light are used to suggest a receding sky and landscape, thus creating an atmospheric perspective. Atmospheric perceptive is defined as an optical effect caused by the atmosphere that interposes itself between us and the objects we perceive. In this painting, Domenichino uses a restricted palette, limiting himself to a few pigments and their mixtures, tints and shades. The majority of the painting is created using dark brown and a possible mixture of brown and white to create flesh tones for Adam, Eve, and the animals. However, the garments surrounding God and his angels are painted in the basic triadic harmonies of red, yellow, and blue. Domenichino also uses foreshortening to add depth to his work. The sheep and the lion are laying in hiding, under the protection of a cliff or a cave, away from the rebuke of God.
The second artwork, an oil on canvas painting by Jacopo Bassano, entitled “The Miraculous Draught of Fishes” was painted in 1545. Like Domenichino, Bassano uses the design elements atmospheric perspective, foreshortening, color values, and a closed palette to narrate his work. Bassano also used other design elements such as warm colors, cool colors, intensity, two-dimensional space.
Like Domenichino, Bassano limits the mixtures, tints and shades used to create this painting by using a closed palette. He uses a lot of warm colors such as red-orange, orange, and a light orange or peach, and tan. Intensity refers to the relative purity of a color. The warm colors range from high intensity to low intensity. White is mixed with these warmer colors to create different values. The fishermen are wearing one of these colors or are wearing no shirt at all. But rather baring bare skin. He also uses cool colors in values of blue to create a sea that lingers off in the distance. Atmospheric perspective is used, creating space between the fishermen and the environment behind them. With the sea behind them, the fishermen bend over the side of the boat as they attempt to catch the fish. Bassano uses foreshortening to create this illusion. The space between the fishermen and the boat is two-dimensional. The actual space is the flat surface of the work itself. However, other quantities and dimensions of space can be implied when the viewer sees the men bending over the side of the second boat. The second boat is partially overlapped by the first boat. The two boats stand sided by side. But the overlapping of the boats also implies two-dimensional space.
Though Domenichino and Bassano use different design elements to create their work, they also use some that are similar. Even with their similarities and differences in technique, they are both able to successfully narrate a bible based story through their work.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Activity #4 "Write About it"
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve is an oil on canvas painting that was created by Domenichino in 1626. Domenichino uses a variety of design principles that are supported by design elements to give the story of Adam and Eve an archaic feel. Domenichino employs unity, emphasis, hierarchal scale, and rhythm to direct the viewer’s eye to the he who receives the final rebuke.
Domenichino uses unity based on color to separate Adam and Eve from God and his angels. Unity is defined as a sense of oneness, of things belonging together and making up a coherent whole. The partially bare skin of Adam and Eve create an oneness between them as a couple. Whereas, the primary colors of red, yellow and blue that clothe God and his angels provide a sense of oneness between them. He uses emphasis to lore the viewer’s eye down the chain of rebuke. Domenichino places emphasis on Adam, Eve, and God by contrasting light against dark. The flesh toned color of Adam and Eve’s skin stands out against the dark landscape and the dark red color of Gods robe against light blue places him in the foregrounds of the sky. The emphasis placed on the main characters of this narrative creates a hierarchical scale. Rebuke first comes from God to Adam and is then passed from Adam to Eve and from Eve to the Serpent.
As the blame is passed, rhythm based on repetitious finger pointing creates a diagonal line from the upper right corner of the painting to the lower left corner, ultimately passing the blame to the serpent who receives the final rebuke.
Jacope Bassano painted “The Miraculous Draught Fishes” in 1545. This work is an oil on canvas painting. Like Domenichino, Bassano uses color to unify his painting. Visual weight, symmetrical balance, and emphasis are some of the other design principles Bassano used to depict the draught of fishes.
The monochromatic harmonies of orange, peach and tan used to clothe the upper portions of the fishermen’s bodies unifies the painting. This unity of bodies in boats creates a visual weight that is equally distributed, both boats having three men each. The two boats sail side by side, with one boat slightly in front of the other. A man standing up in the boat that appears closer to the viewer serves as the symmetrical balance of the painting. Symmetrical balance is defined as the implied center of gravity. He stands at the edge of the boat, seemingly overlapping the second boat, his body creating a line down the center of the composition.
Like Domenichino, Bassano also uses emphasis in his painting in order to bring out the main objective of the painting. The men in the boat that appears closer to the viewer are interacting with he who performs the miracle. And the men in the second boat are bent over the side of the boat, in search of a miracle.
Domenichino uses unity based on color to separate Adam and Eve from God and his angels. Unity is defined as a sense of oneness, of things belonging together and making up a coherent whole. The partially bare skin of Adam and Eve create an oneness between them as a couple. Whereas, the primary colors of red, yellow and blue that clothe God and his angels provide a sense of oneness between them. He uses emphasis to lore the viewer’s eye down the chain of rebuke. Domenichino places emphasis on Adam, Eve, and God by contrasting light against dark. The flesh toned color of Adam and Eve’s skin stands out against the dark landscape and the dark red color of Gods robe against light blue places him in the foregrounds of the sky. The emphasis placed on the main characters of this narrative creates a hierarchical scale. Rebuke first comes from God to Adam and is then passed from Adam to Eve and from Eve to the Serpent.
As the blame is passed, rhythm based on repetitious finger pointing creates a diagonal line from the upper right corner of the painting to the lower left corner, ultimately passing the blame to the serpent who receives the final rebuke.
Jacope Bassano painted “The Miraculous Draught Fishes” in 1545. This work is an oil on canvas painting. Like Domenichino, Bassano uses color to unify his painting. Visual weight, symmetrical balance, and emphasis are some of the other design principles Bassano used to depict the draught of fishes.
The monochromatic harmonies of orange, peach and tan used to clothe the upper portions of the fishermen’s bodies unifies the painting. This unity of bodies in boats creates a visual weight that is equally distributed, both boats having three men each. The two boats sail side by side, with one boat slightly in front of the other. A man standing up in the boat that appears closer to the viewer serves as the symmetrical balance of the painting. Symmetrical balance is defined as the implied center of gravity. He stands at the edge of the boat, seemingly overlapping the second boat, his body creating a line down the center of the composition.
Like Domenichino, Bassano also uses emphasis in his painting in order to bring out the main objective of the painting. The men in the boat that appears closer to the viewer are interacting with he who performs the miracle. And the men in the second boat are bent over the side of the boat, in search of a miracle.
Friday, February 16, 2007
"ART 101 Online Mueum Visit"
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Domenichino, 1626
Oil on Canvas
The Miraculous Draught of FishesJacopo Bassano, 1545
Oil on Canvas
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
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