Tuesday, October 28, 2008

painters

in this blog i'll be critiqueing the two images that are below. the first a salvador dali featuring some scantily clad women under a light. that form a skull which i saw first when i saw it on the google page not the women in this picture but at a second glance i noticed that the eye sockets were heads and the teeth were flesh from the women. salvador dali

dali's intent for this image was probably to decieve the unwary observer into seeing the skull or the women but not both at the same time. whoa

the quality of this painting could be debated. but i think it's a good painting because i think it acomplishes what dali wants the image to do.

reponse the first reponse to this image is usually "look a skull wait a minute"


this picture is by willem de kooning called seated woman
intention- i don't know maybe he just wanted to draw a woman sitting or he was bored
quality-well personally i don't think he got much talent as an artist so i don't actually know how he became an known artist.
reponse- well a five year old with the same tool as de kooning could come up with something better.

1 comment:

Johnny Thailborough said...

Oh, that crazy Salvador Dali. I LOVE his work, but he comes up with some weird stuff. Espesially that bee flying around a pommengranet dream painting. That was messed up.

I think it's interesting how you said the quality is debateable. I somewhat agree, but when I look at it, I think the quality of the man on the left hand side of the painting is not so good, but the quality of the rest of the piece is very well done. Makes you think, why is it the man is painted in almost a totally different style from the rest of the painting? Hmmmm... What do you think James?