Objective Critique

The piece titled "Dance" by Henri Matisse is a wonderful painting in the grand scheme of things, and uses primitive concepts to convey a ritualistic scene. I don't mean ritualistic as in satanic, just in that the individuals are going about an act carried down through their lineage. 

This painting was a sister painting to "Music" also by Matisse, and hung together in the estate of Sergei Shchukin, who was a Russian businessmen and art collector, until the October Revolution of 1917. 

It shows 5 red figures dancing, against the simple green landscape under a deep blue sky. It is supposed to symbolize feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism.

Subjective Critique

My initial reaction upon seeing "Dance" for the first time was that it was lacking in something. I couldn't quite figure it out yet but I knew it was missing something that would inspire me. 

The main reasons why this piece doesn't inspire me is that it attempts to convey movement but not well enough for my liking. The colors are dark and forboding, and scream a negative energy. The last reason is that the bodies look too much like a cartoon imitating life, instead of being realistic.

I want to change this by using the base colors to convey wild movement across the page. I will attempt this by breaking down the barriers/lines and letting the colors move freely instead of being constricted to certain areas.

Original Image

"Dance"
Henri Matisse
Oil on Canvas
1909

Lighted Desk Scene

This post is about my month in the 3DF class where we created models for a lighted scene. For this scene we were required to pick our favorite or best models that we created all month to place in a scene. I chose two candlesticks, a spray can and a drink can.

After I had chosen my objects I needed to make sure I placed a working hyper shade onto the item so that light could reflect off of it correctly. This task was fairly easy, with the exception being the candlestick in the front of the render. Here it is again with a closer angle.

You can tell that the lower portion of the main stick didn't properly refract the lighting. This was due to my own error, not properly laying out the UV's. Here is another photo from the angle of the lightbulb.