Painting Comparision

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Jeffery’s Poppies and Wish upon a Shooting Star are two paintings which are similar but still have many differences. Both were on display at the Downtown Arts Center in Lexington. Both pieces of artwork are examples of fine art. They were not intended to be functional and I believe the artists had formal training in art. Both paintings were approximately the same size, which I estimated to be approximately 16 inches by 28 inches. Both paintings were made with the same medium, oil paint on canvass, which makes both pieces of artwork similar in that respect. They are not examples of decorative art because they were not intended to be functional and were not made with what would be considered a medium associated with crafts. The physical similarties in size and medium makes the two paintings seem very similar. No artist was listed for either painting so possibly they were both made by the same artist and that is why they were hanging next to each other in the art gallery. However, both paintings have differences in their design.
Both pieces of artwork are examples of representational art. Jeffery’s Poppies was a painting of a red vase with different color flowers in it. It was an attempt to make the painting look like and actual vase with flowers in it, so it was a recognizable object making it representational. Wish Upon a Shooting Star is a painting of a grass field with trees at the far end. It is an attempt to make the painting look like a real field, so once again the artist was attempting to make something that is recognizable making it representational art.
The pieces of art did not really have any lines. There were edges. Neither painting contained any implied lines either. Both use geometric shape. In the painting Jeffery’s Poppies the vase and flowers are geometric shapes. Wish Upon a Shooting Star is also made up of geometric shapes. The trees were circles and cylinders while the grass was just a lar...