The piece of art displayed in the John Gallery is done by John Babcock. John Babcock is a graduate student at Montana State University. He has used mixed media and done his work on wood. He has titled his work as Smoke Green. The work depicts a nude woman backwards, showing her back. He has attached several objects to his work which include a ladder, door opener, a door attach’e, a small wired box with wooden sides.
On the painting front it seems as if the woman has just taken a shower as can be seen with her wet hair. Her right hand is raised while she looks down. The artist has used actual lines to show the figure of the woman. These lines are non linear and are curved smoothly to show complete the figure of the woman. These actual lines are thin and add to the smoothness of the figure. Thick lines on the other hand are used to add more focus to parts.
The artist has used a thick line to focus on the butt of the woman. There seem to be some use to implied lines as well. The artist has used these implied lines to give direction to the hair of the nude woman. The artist has used warm colors through out his work. To present the body he has used many variations of black and brown colors.
It seems that he has painted those parts of the body black where he wants to focus our attention; where as the other parts are in lighter brown color. The rest of the painting on the other hand is in varies from dark to light blue and at the bottom from dark to light brown. He has painted his objects with blue as well. There is a lot of unity in the painting. All the objects and the painting itself seem to unify the nude woman. The ladder especially has been placed horizontally as to hide the right breast of the woman.
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There also seems to be a balance in the picture. The woman stands right at the center and balances both sides of the painting. The horizontal ladder seems to symmetrically balance the top and bottom portion of the painting. The top portion is placed with wordings where as to counter it two objects are placed at the bottom, while the rest of the painting remains the same.
The emphasis is clearly on the nude woman. And her back is the focal point in this work of art. The nude woman and the objects make up the positive background, where as the painting is the negative background. The directional forces on the other hand do not seem to be clearly defined. The hand is the most common force which point horizontally right. The way her head is places also..
