Explorations in Art

  Allee dans le Parc (Ally in the Park) The piece I chose is an oil painting on canvas. The artist's name is  Alice Pike Barney  and she created this artwork in 1906, but the location is unknown. This painting was gifted to the Smithsonian American Art Museum by  Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney. There was no other background on this painting. The elements I chose to discuss regarding this piece are color, tone, and line. Alice used dark, warm, and cool colors. The darkness and the coolness portions of the painting evokes a bit of an eerie feeling. The warmness used helps balance the painting and invites some coziness back into the painting. The tone in the painting creates a sense of depth and distance. This helps with definition of the trees and leaves as well as the light at the end of the tree tunnel. Tone also helps define the rhythm and pattern of the leaves and trees. Lastly, line in this piece sugge...

 Hello!  My name is Olivia Whitehair, I am a senior at UAF. I will be graduating this fall with a BA in Criminal Justice and an AAS in Paralegal Studies. I am 22 years old, married, and have five dogs. In my free time I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, adventuring, and spoiling my dogs.  I really enjoy painting and would love to get more into pottery. I love art museums, and I recently went to an interactive art museum in Pittsburgh, which was awesome! We then went to  Randyland , which was a pretty whacky place! I have inserted one of my favorite murals in my home state of West Virginia. I love this simply because the artist was able to create something beautiful out of something relatively unattractive.  Citations: Katherine. (2015, November 28). Your head will turn if you walk past these 11 spots in West Virginia . OnlyInYourState®. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/west-virginia/mural-wv/ RandylandPgh. (n.d.). Meet randy . Tumblr. https://randyl...