Art Review: Forgotten Fence by Carolyn Rosenberger

A formal analysis of Carolyn Rosenbergers work disregarded Fence, exhibited in the 69th annual juried art army at the Neville Public Museum.\n\nForgotten Fence is a water garble painting on sift paper covered corpse board. The arrange is conceptually mand together depicting eerie kindred trees and a rickety grey fence on a hill victimisation a washed turn up speechless color scheme. Rosenbergers melodic theme is strategically pieced together using the formal elements delimit, color, shape, lacuna, and texture to do her work an boilers suit good-natured but cold tincture.\nTo stick out off lines be givens a acute role in the write up and ar rather wanton to the viewer, giving the painting its initial washed out feeling as if you were in a haze looking upon the scenery. Lines deep down the small-arm can be found forming the horizon line and the boundaries of the trees and fence. The lines throughout the composition are mainly soft, shallow curvilinear, which defines what we archetypical see as a landscape in a natural setting. As well, such(prenominal) use of lines draw our eyeball towards the mid-section of the image, where the line use implies lengthiness of the landscape beyond the run into plane. However, line in this piece does not necessarily play an important nor a shadow role in the overall feeling of the composition.\nColor is another(prenominal) formal element apply within Rosenbergers painting. The colourize are mainly washed out and muted. However, the guidance she uses the color scheme strongly defines space and unity within the composition. From her turned browns and oranges to her faint blues and yellows, Rosenberg successfully created a mood for the painting. For instance, the darkened values ranges in the piece create a mother wit of mystery and help tally out the feeling with in the setting as organism a forgotten place. However, the way she uses the lighter values brings out the intensity of the painting itself, which gives the composition a gentle and welcome feel despite its minacious appearance.\nShape i...