BP#2

I was looking through the online art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art website and this piece of artwork titled “Red-green and Violet-Yellow Rhythms’’ grabbed my attention because of its vibrant color use. This is an eye-catching painting by German artist Paul Klee. Its measurement is fourteen and three fourth inch by thirteen and one fourth inch. Oil paint and ink has been used on a cardboard to make this beautiful two-dimensional piece. The whole painting has a geometric pattern. There is no negative space visible. I find this art work somewhat similar to Mondrian’s style. Primary colors- red, yellow and secondary colors- violet, green has been used mostly to fill the geometric shapes. There is shading of colors in some parts of this artwork. I can see a few tertiary colors too such as teal (mixture of blue and green), citron (mixture of green and orange), and russet (mixture of orange and purple). Most certainly, each of the shape is outlined by ink. A few tree-like objects are also painted with dark green color. In the middle left of the artwork, in a grey colored area, the artist signed his name and the year he painted this which was 1920. The painting seems to have a coarse texture. When I look at this picture, all the vibrant colors specially red and green, the rhythm of the geometric shapes and the trees makes me think of Christmas, the holiday season. As we all know, traditional red and green are the colors of Christmas. We see decorations and colorful lights everywhere and Christmas trees and there is a rush in this season where everyone can’t just wait to go home and spend the whole time with their family and friends. I think this artwork is all about it.