Formal Analysis


Name of painting: The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself With Her Shadows




This painting is executed entirely in oil paint and it is a 2- Dimensional piece of work. It is a form of artwork which focuses on shapes. These shapes are the dancer's shadows when she does different acrobatic movements and they are distorted. In the painting, smooth and clean brush strokes are used. The lines are neat andeach shape has its own colour, and there is no use of different tones.The colours used are rather dull and dark and the shapes overlap each other. Based on the type of brush stroke and the colours used, I feel rather calm and not agitated at all. This artist shows movement beacuse of the different shapes and how they are represented. For example, the yellow shape shows movement as it makes me feel as if the dancer is putting both arms over her head.



Tang Delflyne (30) 1M