Artist: Henry Matisse Title: Self-portrait Year: 1906 Medium: Oil on canvas Source: www.henrimatisse.org/henri-matisse-painting-gallery3.jsp#prettyPhoto[paintings]/167/ Artist: Ken Done
Title: "Me" Year: 1992 Medium: Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas Source: www.portrait.gov.au/ The bright splashes of colour paint captured my attention first. It is bold with both white and black highlights to draw your attention. Ken Done uses this contrast with other colours such as the wide open red mouth that is next to yellow, pink or green to cleverly draw the audience's attention (Glatstein, J, 2019). The simplicity of the self-portrait is in the lines created with the organic shapes and colour. Images of Australia are represented in the white outline of the harbour bridge, the waves of beach and yellow sand. Done's nod to cubism can be found in the yellow line of his profile that creates further shapes within the middle of his front on perspective. Here you can see the side view of eye, nose and mouth. While there is a riotousness of colour and line, Done keeps the balance of the self-portrait through the movement of the audience's eye from symmetrical but opposing sides of his face (Glatstein, J, 2019). Note how the red on his left forehead is balanced by the equally bold red on right jaw. While the pattern may be different, the pattern is small enough that the red dominates the space. This can be seen with the green to the left his chin, balanced with the green under his right eye. (Appraisal completed using the model provided by Roy, Baker and Hamilton (2019) in table 8.3 Suggestions for looking at art: questions to ask)
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