Respond to a contemporary artwork

"Dali Dream" by Lenny

This painting is very surreal and detailed, and you have to look at it for a long time to find all the interesting details. My favorite one is that he copied Salvador Dali's melting clock in the backround. The painting looks very colorful even though Lenny didn't use a lot of colors.
He used a lot of lines that point to the middle of the picture but there is no special detail, so your eyes keep moving around the picture.
I like that Lenny used the bells, the checkered pattern, and the aqua blue twice in the picture, it calms the chaos in the painting down.

Respond to a historical artwork

 

Gustav Klimt - "The Kiss"



This has been my favorite artwork for  long time. Most of it is very flat and Klimt used a lot of lines without creating any value.

The only parts that don't look flat are the girl's feet and arms. I don't like the man's clothes at all because they are so flat but it makes the paining interesting.

I think it is interesting that the woman is so tall. She is on her knees and if she could stand up, she would be at least on foot taller than the man.
I also like that she has flowers in her hair and that there are the same flowers on the ground. So this artwork tells a story even though it is very simple.

Response to an Artist: Arthur Rackham





Arthur Rackham was born in the late 1800s in London. He studied at the City of London School and later at the Lambeth School of Art.

Arthur Rackham's style is dreamlike, fantastic, humorous, and romantic. He illustrated books and stories by reusing images from other magazines and books featuring several illustrators. 

Alice in Wonderland

The Meeting of Oberon and Tatina

He inspires me because he illustrated fairy tales and he names his art after characters, lines, and phrases from stories.

Fairies Feeling Undancey

Ragged Children

Beauty & the Beast

The Tortiose and the Hare