This two dimensional painting is located at the '20th Century' Painting section, 1st floor in RISD museum. The size of this painting is about 22"x25" and has wooden golden frame. It is oil painting on canvas and I guess the man, Albert Gleizes is also a painter, thiugh the painter of this piece is Jean Metzinger.
This painting is pretty symmetric balnced and black and white colored except for the center part of the man's face which is painted with secondary color. And the palette beyond the man. However a;though this painting's whole mood is black and whithe color, there's some saturated indian pink is painted on the gray background. I could figure out this painter painted red color, first, and then painted gray touch over it, and rough touch of the brush. There are six parts of the man's face are vertically devided and each part is a sort of abstract image like Picasso's. The man wears a hat on his head and the line of shapes is prominent. There is a palette beyond the man's left face and the corner of it comes in touch with a vertical line of the man's left shoulder. I don;t know exactly what the line really means, actually.
I can see some rough actual texture which I guess mixture with sand under the man's purple colored neck tie. This purple color is the complementary hue from his face.
This painting was like Picasso's piece, when I first see it, but it wasn't, but its metamorphosis is quite abstractionism like and the contrast of the value is conspicious.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
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