View From My Window :: Visual Arts Paintings Art

View From My Window by Camille PissarroThis painting is a landscape and was painted, by Pissarro, from anupstairs window overlooking his back garden. This describe is mainly rough farmland as it has a lady with some hens and some cows in thedistance.In the foreground of this picture there is a large bush at the front,to the right there is a grass bea with a more similar shrubs and tothe left there is another grass area with a lady surrounded by hens.The middleground is all grass area with several trees and several cowsyou can just see. The background has all trees - the start of a forestand then a sixth of the picture includes the sky. The artist capturesyour attention by the bright color and in my opinion the focal pointof the picture is the roof of the building as its red and is thebrightest point. I dont think the artist has really employ declension as such, but he creates line by dabbing the brush to form straight lines.I think the artist has used a wide range of tones from light to dark,the lightest point being the very centre of it which is a lightgreen/yellow colour and the brightest point being the red roof. Thereare a few dark points too - there is a very dark green shrub and atthe left background the sky is a dark grey/blue. I similar this becauseit adds form to the painting and i think it gravels it look morerealistic.I think the shapes that have been used are regular eg. the sky is arectangle , the trees are a rounded rectangle shape and circle shaped.In my opinion most of the shapes are formed and look 3D.The main colour of this painting is green and its used in alldifferent tones and shades. I think the majority of the colours are inharmony although I would say the red contrasts with the green nearlyit. Im sure a different approach could have changed the picture eg.with warmer colours it would look more of a sunny picture but withdarker colours it would look more of a dull picture. I think thetexture of the picture looks rough because th e artist has createdtexture by using dabs of paint to make a shape or an object.The building in the foreground is slose up but you can tell it getsfurther and further away into the distance as the trees get smallerand theres a lot more of them.