BP#2

Browsing the new blog assignment page I stumbled upon the collection of museums in which I must choose from to post my next blog, I chose to take a closer look at the Studio Museum in Harlem. The name and title of this work of art I've chosen is "Conversation with Stanley Whitney", by Trenton Doyle Hancock. This particular piece is a painting that was created with graphite, ink, and acrylic on paper. This is a two dimensional painting of a geometric shaped square with both primary, secondary complimentary and also tertiary colors. The pattern in this figure are the colorful triangles such as purple, green, orange, red, blue, yellow pointing downwards from the top. There are both diagonal and horizontal lines in this painting giving it a more meaningful image. The horizontal lines along the left side are purple giving it a calm appearance between black gaps providing negative space. On the right side there are diagonal lines which are black surrounded by purple gaps making the painting appear dramatic and imply action, movement. There are two leaves apart of the dominant object as positive space on each side of the painting and they are completely white as the foreground, but in the background the artist created a lot of negative space leaving it completely black. I feel this image has a dramatic affect expressing life and death with how the artist included warm and cool colors to influence eachother.