Strasbourg, le Pont du Corbeau
1936Maurice AchenerBorn: Mulhouse, France 1881Died: Paris, France 1963etchingplate: 7 x 12 in. (17.9 x 30.5 cm)Smithsonian American Art MuseumGift of Chicago Society of Etchers1935.13.498Not currently on view
Achener's painting is a beautiful
piece of art that captures the true reality and impression of the setting. As I
looked at the art piece i was mesmerized because the tree is exactly the way
you would go outside and see it with your own two eyes. The painting
is very realistic and the shading and lines are impeccable. In a formal analysis
the painting is used many tones of shades which is what gives it life and the
exact detail that it needs to give it life is also impressive. I wouldn’t even
be able to do that with my pencil. On the stylistic analysis the painting is
very comforting and I can guess that the location of the painting must be one
the artist enjoyed and knew very well. The artist captured details that would
have taken time to notice. Not everyone has an eye to see and appreciate the
true beauty of nature, the way the artist captured it in his painting. The artist
definitely has the skills and the artist perspective to capture the scenery so
perfectly. You can also witness the lines used and contour lines which is
definitely in the work of art. Especially the tree uses these lines and the
buildings. In the painting we definitely can see the foreground, middleground, and
background. The tree is the foreground, the building behind the tree is the
middleground and the background is the other building more visible on the
right. The relative size and scale is also very visible because the tree and
the house/ building is visibly more larger. As we move to the background its relatively
smaller. The painting also has different values and shading which is what makes
the painting look like art and not just a bunch of lines in a piece of paper. In
the detail of the tree it’s possible that the artist used hatching and
crosshatching in order to shade certain details of the tree. For the linear
perspective, vanishing point, and horizon line is hard to tell. It could be
possible that it has two of each. It could be that it has two of each.
Monica Luna-Serrano
Good work here! What do you mean that there might be "two of each?" That part is confusing- there is only one horizon line, but we do see different ways linear perspective is used- is that what you meant?
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