Forms, Styles and Types of Art

The painting I select is from Centro Cultural São Paulo, and it is made in 1966, but the author and titled of this painting is unknown. This is a 2D painting made with Oil on canvas. It is a representational style, and portrait type of painting. The painting is about a girl or woman is wearing a blue cloth and a white hat, and holding a yellow bird in her hands.

In this painting, The pattern of her hat is some straight line. Her hair is created by the curves. I also see a lot of geometric shape. There are 4 obvious parallelograms on the background, a triangle hat, an oval face, an oval lip, oval eyes, and different size of the rectangles pattern on her clothes. The color of pattern of cloth is monochromatic color that vary between dark to light.

The colors of this painting mostly brown, but it can still divide by 5 different colors. Three primary colors: red lip, yellow bird and blue cloth. One secondary color: green eyes. One tertiary color: brown background and skin.

The different colors have different means. The color brown is a serious, down-to-earth color signifying stability and safety. In this painting, I think the color brown is representing protection. The cloth of the girl or woman is blue, this a color is representing responsibility. The yellow bird is the lightest object in the painting . The color yellow makes this bird in this painting become like a light, hope and happiness.

All in all, base on the information, I get from the painting, a girl or woman is wearing a blue cloth, and holding a yellow bird in her hand with a brown background. I make an inference that author’s of this painting, his purpose is telling us that protecting natural animals, or a specified animals bird is our responsibility.