Cotopaxi
Over Spring break I visited the
Detroit Institute of Art and came across some wonderful art pieces. The one
that really caught my attention is called Cotopaxi. It’s array of fall colors, olive
green, burnt orange, yellow, and green come together to create this sunset over
the mountains. I enjoyed this painting because I loved the color scheme put
together by the painter. The orange in the painting combines the energy of red
while also showing the happiness in yellow. These colors represent joy, and
sunshine. The orange also catches my attention highlights the most important
elements of the painting. While the yellow obviously is the color of the
sunshine hence the joy reflects in this painting as well. It produces a warming
effect, and cheerfulness that stimulated my mind. The red brought out the
emotion in the painting. Leaving the green, to create the color of nature. The
green symbolized the fertility and healing power of growth and hope.
Cotopaxi
painting used oil paint to create this masterpiece, on a 48 x 85 in canvas. I think
this painting is pretty unique because it captures all of the elements of the
colors that are mentioned above. This painting is about the calmness of nature
(green color), while life can knock you down bringing some negative emotions
(red color), the sun still rises reflecting on the joy (yellow color) that life
brings as well. Everyone feeds off of energy orange color) so it’s up to us to
a positive environment to get the most of life.
Overall
I really do like this this photo because to the naked eye it just shows a
sunset, but once you look deeper and find a more complex meaning you begin to
think what the author of this painting was really trying to show. Unfortunately,
I was not able to get a photo of the painting.
ISO 400
f-stop 5.6
shutter speed 1/80
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