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Reflection On Library Art

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The art exhibit in which I attended on February 26, 2018, was actually right in the campus library. Within our exhibit on campus there were several paintings that caught my eye and that I have heard of around the world, as well as some that I haven’t heard of and that I thought were quite unique. The paintings that I reviewed included Paul Gauguin’s When will you marry?, which is an oil painting that he composed of two traditional-looking native women in 1892, Purple Robe and Anemones by Henri Matisse, also an oil painting, Matisse illustrated this portrait where a women in a purple robe is posing beside a vase of flowers in 1932, next was Georgia O’Keeffe’s Grey Line with Black, Blue, and Yellow that she created in 1923, another oil painting …show more content…

They consists of post-impressionism, where Van Gogh and Gauguin fall under, abstract, in which O’Keeffe falls under, contrasted with fauvism and expressionism, where Matisse sits. To me, these pieces had no apparent affect. I honestly enjoyed them all and thought they were each wonderfully crafted in their own way by each of their artists. I feel that no piece of art is ugly and that they all represent something in the artist’s life by whom which they were composed, whether that be a place, person, or item that represents happiness, sadness, beauty, or some sort of emotion or thought. Those representations are why I believe that are is so wonderful and amazing, because every artist can portray their own thoughts or feelings within a painting, and no person can say that it is right or wrong. It is a sense of freedom and elegance that is untouched by the thoughts of any other individuals. So, I guess it was emotionally moving going to see those select few portraits, and seeing them really excites me and invigorates me to want to see more. The piece that stood out to me the most, maybe not perhaps impressed me the most, but just caught my eye and really had me interpreting was Georgia O’Keeffe’s Grey Line with Black, Blue, and Yellow. I really do enjoy the contrasting of the shades of blues, greens, pinks, purples, and yellows, as blue is my favorite color. What really caught my eye about the portrait though, was the vast amount of projections that I made in mind to try and decide what the painting actually depicted. That’s just it, too, is that I really don’t know what Georgia O’Keeffe was trying to say or express, and is what makes this piece so intriguing. I personally think that the two outer, grey-looking formations are hands, in which are held together holding something unique. The color scheme is another quizzical aspect of this painting, for the green and yellow don’t

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