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Art Assessment #2 Response

Art Assessment #2 Response. By Satya Adabala. Art Piece and the Artist. This artwork, called “Boy with a Tire”, is by Hughie Lee-Smith, an African American artist He was born in Eustis, Florida

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Art Assessment #2 Response

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  1. Art Assessment #2 Response By SatyaAdabala

  2. Art Piece and the Artist • This artwork, called “Boy with a Tire”, is by Hughie Lee-Smith, an African American artist • He was born in Eustis, Florida • He lived through the World War 2, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights movement, so some of his artwork is about those time periods • His artwork is slightly surreal, often had distant figures under vast skies

  3. Description • The title of the artwork, “Boy with a Tire”, describes what is happening in the artwork; a boy with a tire. • There is a vast, isolate, urban setting with a boy standing alone by a fence in front of a few buildings, holding a tire. • Line: a lot of horizontal and vertical lines with a few diagonals • Shape: lots of rectangles and half-circles • Color: Bleak and grayish-green overall and whites, greys, blackswith touch of red • Value: darks on the leftmost side and on the bottom, also some in the background, lights mostly in the middle • Form: The buildings, fence, tire, and boy are all 3-dimensional; the boy and the tire have a shadow • Texture: overall slightly rough look and feel, some smooth parts • Space: some empty spots in the middle, less emptiness in the background; however, a full look to the art piece • Media: this is an oil painting; Hughie Lee-Smith used straight, simple brushstrokes in this piece

  4. Analysis • Emphasis: The fence, because it is so big and dark, is what is first seen. Later, with the help of the fence jutting out, the eye moves to the boy, which is the main focal point. • Balance: The buildings on the right are balanced by the fence on the left. • Proportion: The proportions are normal and ideal; everything balances out. • Pattern: Similar shapes(rectangles) are repeated in a pattern, for example on the windows on the buildings • Rhythm/Movement: The paths of movement lead from the fence, then to the boy, then the road, and finally the background. • Unity/Variety: The road unifies all the elements because it is the base of the composition, and the background’s varying elemnts add variety.

  5. Interpretation • It seems that the boy has only the tire to keep him company, which implies that he has nothing else to call his own. • The artist gives a feeling of loneliness, emptiness, and desperation, and also isolation. • The work reminds of a time when I was younger and was going through a rough time because I had just moved, and I didn’t have a lot of friends. • This work illuminates the fact that so many people in the world do not have families, homes, or anyone to care for them.

  6. Judgement • The author successfully portrays the feel of isolation with the dull colors, which in my opinion is a success. • The criteria could include the time period this artwork was made, information about the artist, or could list similar pieces by the same artist to help compare and contrast. • I think this art piece is very unique because it isn’t a common scene, and it is and interesting, original setting. • Some improvements the artist could have made are including more elements to the scene to make it more intriguing.

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