Activity #5 REDO

In Romare Bearden’s, 1966-1967, Tomorrow I May Be Far Away Bearden wanted to illustrate his view of the black American experience he shows views from the fast pace of a Harlem neighborhood and views from the down home peacefulness of rural North Carolina. (AP). Use of the magazine cut outs for the faces of the man in front of the house and the woman in the window help serve as a focal point for this picture. The dominant color relationship operating within this piece of art work would be blue and white colors; which are used on the man sitting on the porch, the pail beside him and the woman walking in the background. The yellow, green and maroon colored tiles on the house help to give the house definition and texture. It retains a strong structure with the pondering man who is the central figure. (Culture View).

In John Sloan’s The City from Greenwich Village painted in 1922 the purpose of this painting is for the artist to portray his view of Greenwich Village. John Sloan taught painting and exhibited his work in the new modern genre style depicting images of the city and its residents. Yellow-green light contrasts dramatically with the plum-colored shades in the sky and the stark black of the buildings. (NGA). The lighter colors such as the pastel pink and yellow along with the plum used for the sky help to define the city skyline and show how color plays a significant role in this painting. The dominant color black is used in the roofs on the buildings and train on the elevated tracks help to give the portrait of this city definition. 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. (NGA).