Willie Bedter Analysis

Willie Bedter created his artwork in 1997 mixing media photo-collage with oil. The painting’s subject is township Scene. This piece is currently being exhibited at the third floor of Chaze Museum, locate in UW-Madison. Moreover, the artwork is one of most colorful work in the Chaze Museum.

The background of the work is a sky. To be specific, Willie chose one single color which is a solid blue to draw the sky where is near the horizon. In contrast, Willie used rich color including yellow, green, orange, black to show the sky where is higher and far away from us.

There are several people in the work. I believed that woman who is pouring the water is main character in the whole piece. The dress of the woman is dark blue while her hat using light orange. Willie used two contrast color made the main character is more outstanding. In addition, there are several house in the artwork. Most of house which was drawn with dark color are

Amon them, three children are next to each other and two of them are fighting to each other. Only one child who was drawn in dark color is standing a little further away from them. On the left side of artwork, the man who is watching the children is standing in the back of voice box. There are quiet a few advertisement sigh in the work, such as loan cash, cock, and sale. On the left of whole work, there is a red advertisement was thrown on the floor. Furthermore, there is another red sign on the left of the colorful house. Meanwhile, on the right side of the piece, there is another woman who is wearing a red skirt is standing back of colorful house. Therefore, Willie used red color which is vivid direct viewers’ eyes from left to right, as well as from bottom to top. However, this bright color is balanced by Willie toward the bottom right corner and the dark blue color used in the empty space. Additionally, it makes strong contrast with the whole bright-colored