Blog Post #5

Blatt, Gloria    Sunsets Go By

In this painting Gloria Blatt corporates various element and primciples. The main elements she incorporates is line and shapes. She places dark lines on various parts of the painting to show how the vivid color of the dark stands out on different bright colors. In my opnion she probably did this to demonstrate how darkness is following over the sun, becuase if you notice no dark lines are place upon the shape that appears to be the moon .The artist also incorporates some principles. The ones that seem to stand out the most is balance,unity, and emphasis. The main type of balance in my opion is symmetrical balance due to the fact that all parts of the painting are similar in size and the shapes seem to be the same size. Emphasis and unity is place upon the dark black lines and the golden suns. The artists in my opnion is trying to convey that although darkeness is falling over the sun at sunsee there are still some form of light being emitted by the sun. That is why the black lines are not completely covering the suns.


Questions: 1. Why do you incorpaorate 3 suns and one moon?
                 2. Why are the suns in 3 different positions?
                 3. Why do you place the moon in the middle, should't be at the end to show sequence of the events when the sun sets forth down into the horizon?