"Chasse Nocturne"
Nathalie 20x24
Acrylic on canvas
When you first look at this artwork you can see a beautiful recreation of a wolf with its head down, pressed against a dark red sky, flowers and vines intertwining its way around the artwork. The lines that compose the artwork are thick and curved, but in some areas are also thin, the lines all seem to curve downward. Shapes that you can see in this painting are circles and triangles, and 3 quarters of a heart. The colours are darker and cooler, Blues, Blacks, crimson and purple.
The first thing you were to see when you look at this artwork is a stunning blue and white wolf. The painting is asymmetrically balanced and is heavier on the left side. The light on this painting is pouring down onto the wolf, shining from above which makes the darkest part become where the wolf makes a shadow on the grass below him. There is very little space in the artwork, you can only see the closeup of the wolf, grass, flowers and vines intertwining it's way around the artwork.
I feel that the meaning in this art piece is that there is beauty in the night, and we can only see it if we stop being "predators" and actually enjoy the serenity. The wolf is standing in a feild with his snout down, possibly eating grass, enjoying the night . I feel like the artist is trying to portray serenity. The artist is not concerned with line, nor the title portraying a feeling. Though if you were to look at this artwork, the world's you'd use to describe the feelings that come to you would be: darkness, Calm, serene, earthly and peace.
Theories that would describe the artwork would be imitationism and formalism, I absolutely love this artwork, the moment I saw it I felt drawn to it, the darker colours in the background that have the bright white and blue contrast against it attracted me to it and gave me a calmer feeling, over all I'd rate this piece of artwork 8/10
