Ben Still Life

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Yale Center for British Art
Ben Nicholson Still-life (Newlyo)


When seeing this painting it truly reminded me of my work this semester. Where I have been experimenting with colors and shapes, trying to make them bounce of each other. In Bens painting the colors and style were very similar. They both were bright in color but in Ben’s painting he had more structure and actual objects almost like a cubist painting. Where his shapes were more like objects and in mine they are plainly different shapes.

But the thinking is the same. We take a shape or an object and try to change it in some way where you still know what it is but there are questions. Hs structure of the shapes was more clear and smooth then some in mine. His dark outline reminded me of the newspapers piece I did where I blocked out sections in a deep black. Bringing a feeling of depression or even a feeling of death. When I decided to outline in black I was trying to emphasize the idea that the newspaper underneath was meaningless and dead. Where in his he outlines his objects in a thick black line bring you closer to what he is trying to show you.

He lets the canvas show through is some places that I feel is very important to the story that he is trying to explain. You see he is letting the natural canvas come through and present itself to the viewer. To show that nature itself is a form of art....