The artwork that I had chosen from the President’s Gallery was Kabuki St. Augustine by Maureen Warren. There were only two figures in the foreground mostly in black and white coloring, while the background was black. Even though the whole piece was in black and white since it came from a linocut, the red and blue watercolors were the only colors in the piece. The red and blue colors surround the man’s eyes while woman’s eyes, lips, and a line that is at the left side of her head were painted red. The way that the colors were shaped in geometric shapes almost made them look like Native Americans preparing for a battle. Based on the color’s mass, my eyes mainly directed at the colors of the male figure since there were two colors involved and …show more content…
Augustine was in the end title of the artwork, but the style of the work ended up being in a Japanese setting by the two figures having to be dressed in Japanese attire and having Japanese hairstyles which included the first word Kabuki in the title of the artwork. All of the lines within the linocut were organic because there were different curvilinear lines going in different directions curving left and right which created movement in their clothes and hairstyles – especially the spiral swirl in the rolled up paper that the man was holding. With the shaping of the figures were also organic in order for the figures to be more three dimensional. An example of this was the top white part of the woman’s kimono by the artist having the white area being built up like steps on a staircase. The flowers in the woman’s hair and throughout her kimono were organic as well. The flowers in her kimono moved more freely than the flowers in her hair since the daisy-like flowers were clustered on the left side of her hair. With the artwork’s mass based on the two figures, the woman was heavier than the man since there was more detailed lines and decorations on