Intro To Art

In last class we learn  a lot of basic concepts of drawing. Drawing can be define as  creating space and dimension on a flat surface.  The image that I  choose  to analyze is a drawing from  the Artist Peggy Bacon (1895-1987), the tittle of the Image is  "City lights".

 The artist  uses  foreground/ middle ground/background in his work,  the three areas which determines proximity and space. The  first ground  is  wher

e all the attention seem to be focus, the man in the suit who is smoking and seem to be very calm, the middle ground which is the middle buildings , and the background which is the moon and the back buildings that are very hard to see. 

Shading is extremely important in his work because it defines all the parts of the  artwork, the range of tone variates throughout out the painting depending on where the light of the moon reaches. Since the moon seemed to be hitting the men's face and everything in front of him like the streets, the shading is light and also the  value. There is also light shading and light value around the moon in the sky. On the other hand, all the parts where is hard to get light are in a dark value and dark shading, like the  front buildings. 

Hatching is use by the artist to create value to the image, lines are use to create dimension on  the buildings and the streets. 

The relative size in the artwork seemed to also variate, the size of the front buildings are bigger in relation to the size of the back building which seemed to decrease in the distance. This is also a good example that linear perspective is use by the artists, the direction of the buildings and the streets converging lines all meet at a vanishing point far to be seen, but we all know that linear perspective is being use because all shapes get smaller in the direction of the vanishing point with increasing distance from the eye. 

I can also tell that the artist uses overlapping in his artwork. He places on building in front of the other in order to create illusion  of depth.