Activity #4 WRITE ABOUT IT!


Romare Bearden’s, Tomorrow I May Be Far Away is based on asymmetrical balance. The torn paper, and the use of color throughout the picture provide asymmetry in this painting. Size and placement was used to emphasize the man sitting on the front steps of the house. The focal point are the magazine cut outs used on parts of the face and body of the man and the person standing in the window. Through repetition, visual elements can take on a rhythm within a work. In this painting the colors of the shapes on the house provide the rhythm. magazine picture cutouts, various papers, charcoal, and graphite provide variety in Bearden’s work of art. Romare Bearden's work captures, vivid colors and emotive imagery that characterizes the rhythmical beauty of this painting.






Activity #3 BLOG IT!

I have always loved the composition of this painting. The contour that the artist gives the women’s bodies, the colors used, all of these things give this painting unity. The focal point is the woman that has her face turned to the side.

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The painting that I chose is titled Tomorrow I May Be Far Away; painted in 1967 by Romare Bearden. This painting uses both warm and cool colors; and also uses a collage of various papers with charcoal and graphite on canvas. In Tomorrow I May Be Far Away, Bearden reflects on his childhood memories of Mecklenburg County. There is a focus or elevation of the everyday that becomes a frequent motif in both his North Carolina and Harlem imagery. Bearden employed a variety of media to create this collage, including cuttings from magazines, sample catalogs, wallpaper, art reproductions, and painted papers. This collage is broken into pieces, which helps to give it a dense, quilt-like texture. Parts of the surface have also been reworked with spray paint and charcoal or graphite.



John Sloan an American, painted The City from Greenwich Village in 1922. This painting is oil on canvas. The apparent spontaneity in Sloan’s City from Greenwich Village is deceptive. Noting it was “painted from memory,” Sloan made more preparatory studies for this canvas than for any of his other pictures. In this painting we see the distant lights of downtown office buildings amid the gathering darkness of a winter evening. Yellow-green light contrasts dramatically with the plum-colored shades in the sky and the stark black of the buildings. The viewer peers out over Manhattan, where two tall buildings go upward. The curve of the elevated tracks helps to lead our eyes to this destination. Sloan wanted to make a record of the older city that was giving way to the towers of modern New York. In the final oil painting, the railway is pushed down at a steeper perspective, opening the foreground into a vast space of reflections off wet pavement. The soaring Woolworth Building dominates the distant skyscrapers. Since that shimmering vision actually would not have been visible from this low level, the skyline derives from other studies done at higher elevations.

Creative Notebook #5



Sundance by Alfred Gockel. I found this picture when I was on posters.com looking for new pictures to buy for my house. I was drawn to this picture because of the use of warm colors.

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The title of this picture is Mystique by Keith Mallett. I liked the asymmetry of the woman's legs in this picture. I also liked the colors that the artist used for the background to compliment the woman in the picture.

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My favorite painting by Jacob Lawrence called Streets to M'bari. This use of color on this painting is amazing. The warm and cool colors blend nicely with one another. I would have never thought of using some of these colors together.

Creative Notebook #4


A Rose by Any Other Name by Me. This is a photo that I took of some roses in my grandmothers rose garden summer 2004. I like this picture because the sunlight along with the flash, and the vibrant pink color provided a glow/gleam to the flowers.

Creative Notebook #1


I love painting pottery, this is a piece that I did a few months ago. I choose these colors because I thought they worked well together.




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I really like this piece it's probably one of my favorites out of all of the ones that I have done.