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Comparison of two paintings (Click to select text)
Compare and Contrast two paintings. (Somnambulist Mall Walking and Golconda) Somnambulist Mall Walking and Golconda are two paintings that caught my eyes because of the composition and contents in the paintings. Somnambulist Mall Walking was painted in 1995 by Lynn Randolf and Golconda was done in 1953 by Margaritte. Eventhough there is a great difference in the length of time when these two paintings were done, there are some similarities and certainly lots of visual differences in them. From the paintings one can tell the period of their creation. Somnambulist Mall Walking seems to have all the modernized images such as high-rise buildings and new technology invention such as, rocket, helicopter. In Golconda, the apparels that all the men wear suggest to me that this took place at a time before the Somnambulist Mall Walking. From the style of the outfit the men wear, they seem ancient but half-modernized. The men wear those bucket hats that remind me of Charlie Chaplin's time. The main similarity that I find in these two paintings is the floating bodies in the sky. Both give a disturbing feeling when I look at them. Perhaps because floating bodies remind me of ghosts and spirits. However, in Somnambulist Mall Walking, there are women and men, whereas in Golconda only men are involved in the painting, the same men with the same outfits repeated over and over again. The obvious difference in these two paintings is that in Somnambulist Mall Walking, it is a night scene but Golconda has a morning scene. Therefore Somnambulist Mall Walking uses dark colors as well as many realistic colors. In Golconda, colors such as red, brown and bright blue colors are used instead. Because of the differences in the colors used, both paintings have different feeling to the eyes of the viewers. Dark colors convey mysteriousness and violence, while Golconda gives a calmer and pleasant feeling. Like all paintings, every painting has its own message and meaning from the artist. Somnambulist Mall Walking is a mythical drawing. It is like a dream or illusion from the artist. I think, therefore, the sleep-walking woman represent the artist or her mind. Sometimes people are too troubled and worried about things, often their mind is not at ease. As a result, bad dreams may occur. Therefore, I think the drawing represent the confused mind of a woman. A woman who lives in the big hectic city concerned about her safety and wealth, as robbery, explosion, fight and fire often can happen. Overall, the technique used provides the chaos and disorder in the painting. Unlike Somnambulist Mall Walking, in Golconda, the men are set in horizontally and every line in a pattern. At first when I looked at Golconda, it giva me a scary feeling but comical in some ways. Perhaps because of all the men who are hovering around makes it so funny as if they cannot get into the building. It is also scary because they are just like spirits of all the men who died in the building and now they are haunting it. Both paintings apply perspective. In Somnambulist Mall Walking, a linear perspective is used, basically the one point perspective where all the lines and angles of perspective meet at one point. Aerial perspective I used in Golconda. There is a disillusion of distance and space. Smaller images and mistier colors are used to introduce the sense of depth in space. To sum up, eventhough there are lots of differences in these two paintings by two different backgrounds of artists at two different periods, they both give a very conceptual drawing to the viewers to interpret what makes the drawings excellent pieces.
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