Art discussion Chapter 8b. Visual & Performing Arts

Art discussion Chapter 8b
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Art discussion Chapter 8b
In this chapter, students got an opportunity to learn some of the common art theories that are used in describing and analyzing artworks. The chapter was on art theory and several ideas, philosophies, and theories were posed to the learners. It also gave learners an opportunity to think about how we might project these ideas onto images in our visual culture. The stop light theory stuck out in reading from the past 8 chapters of our book. Further, Diego Rivera’s Zapata-style Landscape was used to show how the theory has been applied in analyzing the artwork.
Zapata-style Landscape: 1915


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In this artwork, Rivera was intent on sowing that Mexico is a beautiful land, assuming that the landscape that Diego Rivera presents is from Mexico. It is one of the works that Rivera did during his prime time in artwork. He shows that the land has hills surrounding the residential area depicted. The style that is used is expressionism. This is because Rivera presents the idea but leaves it up to the reader to interpret (Kleiner, 2016). For instance, this could be used to depict how Mexico was isolated from the other countries, or even how it stood out from the rest during the Mexican Revolution. Seemingly, there is no life behind the residential area as it is occupied by hills.
In this artwork, Rivera has used various shapes such as squares as shown on the bottom right part of the work, and pyramids on the upper side of the artwork that show the beauty of the land. Although the artist has used different items in the work that go along with the spotlight theory, the brown color in the bottom left o...