Expedition Crossing The Coronado Analysis

My chosen artwork is titled: “Coronado’s Expedition Crossing the Llano Estacado,” a 35 ½” by 57 ½” painting by Tom Lovell. This Oil paint on canvas was taken from the Petroleum Museum in the Permian Basin, Midland, Texas.

This painting is remarkable in that the artist makes use of several element and principles of art in this artwork to contextualize the painting. The artist uses diagonal line, vertical lines, and implied lines to draw our attention to Don Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his men and also to create a sense of movement and energy. The fold and fabric as well as the contour lines exhibit in the images of the horse clearly create a sense of movement to viewers. The artist uses several hues of the spectrum including red, orange, yellow, green and blue colors to create a sense of warmness and coolness of his painting. The intensity of some colors the artist chose to use attract viewers’ psychological understanding. The artist employs a several elements of art to create a focal point of the painting. The focal point of this painting is Don Francisco Vasquez de Coronado. We can observe that most of his men and even the man on his left eyes are drew to him directly as he leads the march. The white feather on top of his helmet creates the sense of leadership as we viewed the painting.

The people in the painting are wearing different attires. The attires of Don Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his men clearly tell viewers that these people are highly war-like people and the attire of the two friars clearly brings to our attention that these two men are religious men, who will perform the baptizing ceremony. In the Background of the painting, we observed a landscape containing mountains and hills as well as plain