Art Analyze

According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary Art has many meaning including, “1 : skill acquired by experience, study, or observation 2 a : a branch of learning: (1) : one of the humanities (2) plural : LIBERAL ARTS b archaic : LEARNING, SCHOLARSHIP 3 : an occupation requiring knowledge or skill 4 a : the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects; also : works so produced b (1) : FINE ARTS (2) : one of the fine arts (3) : a graphic art 5 a archaic : a skillful plan b : the quality or state of being artful 6 : decorative or illustrative elements in printed matter”. Art should really be defined as one’s way to express there feelings. The art piece Red, Yellow, Blue II, 1965 by Ellsworth Kelly is a very simple piece when you look at it at first but then you realize how much struggle the artist went through.

For many people painting red, yellow, and blue on three identical pieces of canvas is easy, but painting them on three 82 x 189 in perfectly in really impressive. No matter how much you look you can’t find a painter’s flaw. All the marks I did found though were most probably caused by transit. Also you can’t see any marks of the paintbrush; it almost looks like a computer did it. Therefore the artist Ellsworth Kelly is a very impressive artist that knows how to paint a piece of art that looks like a computer did it.

After some thorough research using the World Wide Web, there was some information that each canvas was supposed to represent different sculptures. Each one combine with one another would create the colors of a rainbow. Also Ellsworth Kelly liked to reduce pictorial elements to simple shapes and fields of uninflected color. Therefore this piece of art was meant to confuse people who did not do thorough research.

Even though it may look simple, Ellsworth Kelly makes sure that the critics of the piece don’t have such an easy time critiquing the art piece Yellow, Blue II, 1965. In conclusion, the artist Ellsworth Kelly likes to make sure that the viewer get confused at first but impressed in the end.