EDVARD MUNCH

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

• Birth- December 12, 1863/Death- January 23, 1944.
• Born in Löten, Norway and died in Ekely near Oslo.
• Munch created “The Scream.”
• Munch was a Norwegian painter.
• Munch did Expressionism with “The Scream” painting and it is when the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The colors have hue, value, and intensity.
• It has some vertical lines, wavy lines, and perpendicular lines.
• The painting has squares and rectangles in it, most of it is flat lines.
• The painting has negative space which is the space around objects.
• It is soft and smooth, there is no hard or rough pieces in the painting.
• The character “scream” stands out because he is bigger than anything in the painting.
• It is balanced, all the lines look the same but not the same type, some are wavy, perpendicular, or vertical.
• The whole body is of the character is the same size.
• The character has more variety, they made him bigger to stand out more than anything else in the painting.
• I like “The Scream” because Munch our a lot of variety on the character and made him the biggest object on the painting.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The colors have hue, value, and intensity.
• It has all the lines, it has wavy, horizontal, vertical, and diagonal.
• The painting has some squares, triangles, and ovals.
• The objects have negative space, it’s the space around the objects.
• The texture is very smooth and soft, there aren’t any rough looking parts.
• Munch made the horses stand out by making them more colorful and bigger than everything else on the page.
• Munch made the horses balanced, they are the same size all over.
• Munch made the horses bigger than anything else on the painting.
• Munch made a variety, he put the horses in the middle of the picture and made them big.
• I like this art piece because Munch made the horses big and colorful and it helped me figure out what the painting was about.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The colors have hue, value, and intensity.
• It has vertical lines in the painting.
• It is a flat painting of just lines.
• The painting has a negative space, which is the space around the objects.
• It is soft and smooth, there are no rough parts in the paintings they are all smooth lines.
• Munch emphasized the sick girl by making her have more color and a little bit bigger.
• The sick girl is balanced, she is the same size for her whole body.
• The sick girl is the same size from top to bottom in the painting.
• Munch made the sick girl have more color and make her look like she isn’t doing good at all to get the attention.
• I like this painting because it shows emphasis on how sick the girl is and it shows us how bad she is doing.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The colors have hue, value, and intensity.
• The painting has mostly thin vertical lines.
• The painting has rectangles and squares.
• The painting has negative space, which is the space around objects.
• The painting has some smooth soft lines.
• Munch made the guy and girl stand out by making them bigger than anything else.
• The painting is balanced other than the bigger characters that shows what the painting is of.
• The whole body on both characters are the same size from the head down.
• Munch made the guy and girl stand out more by making them darker in color to stand out and made them bigger.
• I like this painting because I like the colors he used in it.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The colors have hue, value, and intensity.
• It has thick wavy lines in the painting.
• The painting has negative space, which is the space around objects.
• This painting doesn’t really have shapes it has weird shapes.
• The painting has some rough soft lines.
• The woman standing there has emphasis because Munch made her bigger than anything else on the page.
• The painting is balanced throughout the whole artwork.
• The head and body are all the same size in this painting.
• Munch made the attention with the big girl he made in the painting, it’s bigger than anything in the painting.
• I chose this painting because I like how he does his background with wavy lines.

GEORGES SEURAT

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

• Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 and died on March 29, 1891.
• Seurat was born in Paris, France and died in Paris, France.
• Seurat did post- Impressionism and it is used to express color, line, form, and the emotional response of an artist.
• Seurat was a French post-Impressionism painter and draftsman.
• Seurat is known to use the painting techniques chromoluminarism and pointillism.
• Seurat did post- Impressionism and it is used to express color, line, form, and the emotional response of an artist.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The colors have hue, value, and intensity.
• This painting has rough looking horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines.
• This painting has all sorts of different shapes.
• This painting has negative space, which is the space around objects.
• This painting has soft smooth lines in it.
• Seurat in this picture doesn’t really make anyone stand out they are all bigger that the background.
• Seurat made the front people bigger and made them smaller and smaller to make it look like it was a long painting.
• Seurat made a the people the same size from head to toe but as they went back Seurat made the people smaller and smaller.
• Seurat makes the whole painting catch your eye by making everyone bigger than the background.
• I chose this painting because this was the very first painting I’ve ever seen and I like how the painting looks like it keeps going farther and farther.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The color has hue, value, and intensity.
• This painting doesn’t have really lines they are tons of dots.
• Seurat made this painting a flat painting.
• This painting has negative space, which is the space around objects.
• This painting has soft smooth lines in it.
• I think Seurat was making the houses stand out because they have a brighter color and darker coloring to it.
• Seurat made this painting balanced because one object isn’t to much bigger than the others.
• Seurat made this painting different sizes but they aren’t to much bigger from each object.
• Seurat makes the buildings darker and brighter than anything else.
• I like this painting because I like how he makes the water and building, and I just like the dot paintings.

ABOUT PAINTING

• This painting has hue, value, and intensity.
• This painting doesn’t really have any lines, this is a dot painting.
• There aren’t really shapes there are designs.
• This painting negative space, which is the space around objects.
• This painting has rough hard looking dots, dots usually look hard and rough.
• Seurat made the big mountain the center of the painting.
• This painting is very balanced everything in the painting looks about the same size and the sky has the same wavy lines and color.
• The big mountain is the biggest object in the painting.
• There is a pattern in the sky, it has the same wavy line pattern.
• Seurat made the big mountain the eye catcher in the painting.
• I chose this painting because I like dot paintings and I also like how the sky actually looks like it’s behind the mountain.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The colors have hue, value, and intensity.
• There aren’t any lines there are a bunch of dots.
• This is a flat painting with a lot of little circles.
• This painting has a negative space, which is the space around objects.
• This is a rough and hard looking painting.
• Seurat made that sunflower stand out and made is bigger and more colorful.
• This painting is balanced, Seurat made the sunflower bigger and its right in the center on the painting.
• The painting is the same size all over the sunflower.
• In this painting the sunflower is the eye catcher that everyone will see.
• I chose this painting because I like the dot painting and I liked the colors on this painting.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The colors have hue, value, and intensity.
• This painting has horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines.
• In this painting there are some triangles and squares.
• This painting has negative space, which is the space around objects.
• This is a rough and hard looking painting, the tree looks rough.
• The horse is what catches the people’s attention because it big and very noticeable.
• Seurat made the horse the same size and the whole painting has balance.
• The horse is the same size all over its body, that is what makes it so noticeable.
• Seurat made the horse big and made his color darker and that’s what made the horse catch the people’s eye.
• I chose this painting because I like the big tree in the background and the tree looks amazing.

JOHN CONSTABLE

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

• Constable was born on June 11, 1776 and died on March 31, 1837.
• Constable was born in East Bergholt in Suffolk and died in London.
• Constable was know for his landscape paintings.
• Constable was a English Romantic painter.
• Constables art movement was Romanticism, Romanticism emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The colors have hue, value, and intensity.
• This painting has horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines.
• This painting has circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles.
• This painting has negative space, which is the the space around objects.
• This painting looks soft and smooth, it is very nice.
• The kid of the horse has emphasis, it’s showing us that he is the eye catcher.
• The painting is balance everything is is different sizes.
• The people all have the same body size from head to toe.
• The kid on the horse is the eye catcher because you don’t see very many kids on horses like that.
• I like this painting because it’s a big painting and it has a lot of detail on it.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The colors have hue, value, and intensity.
• The lines have horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines.
• This painting is a flat and smooth to express length and width.
• This painting has negative space, which is the space around the objects.
• The texture of the painting smooth and soft, nothing on the painting was hard.
• Constable made the stones the eye catcher because he made a bunch of them and made them a brighter color.
• The items in the painting is balanced throughout the whole painting.
• Constable made all the stones the same size in the painting.
• Constable makes the stones brighter and more of them to make them the eye catcher in the painting.
• I chose this painting because I like the Stonehenge and I like how he made the the background and the stones go together well.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The colors have hue, value, intensity.
• This painting has horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines.
• This painting has flat surfaced shapes, it expresses length and width.
• This painting has negative space, which is the space around the object.
• This painting has rough and hard looking texture.
• Constable made the boat the eye catcher by making it the biggest object on the painting.
• This painting is balanced, it has the same design and color throughout this whole painting.
• Constable made the whole boat the same size in the painting.
• Constable made the boat bigger to make it the eye catcher and the center of the painting.
• I chose this painting because I like the big boat and I like the colors in it.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The colors have hue, value, and intensity.
• In this painting it has horizontal and some diagonal lines.
• This painting has flat shapes, it expresses length and width.
• This painting has negative space, which is the space around an object.
• This painting has smooth and soft lines.
• Constable made the sun the eye catcher, he made it brighter than anything else on the painting.
• This painting is balanced, he used the same colors and the sky and sun are balanced.
• The sun is the same size throughout the whole painting.
• Constable made the sun catch the viewers eye, he made it brighter than anything else on the painting.
• I chose this painting because I like how it looks like the sun is really bright and it makes it look like the whole sky is light up.

ABOUT PAINTING

• The color have hue, value, and intensity.
• This painting has horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines.
• This painting has some circles and rectangles, it is a flat painting, it expresses length and width.
• This painting has negative space, which is the space around an object.
• This painting has a smooth and soft texture.
• I think the little character is supposed to catch the viewers eye.
• This painting is balanced, it has the same colors and uses them equally.
• The little character is the same height throughout the whole painting.
• I think Constable made the little character the eye catcher.
• I chose this painting because I like how Constable put a little character on this big painting.

WEBSITES USED

• Brittanica.com
• Getty.edu