Visual Analysis: Information as List

  • because bullet points are fun
    • I mean: look at them
    • like poetry, kind of
  • Subject Matter: Still life-y stuff
    • two children (background)
    • vase of plants (foreground)
    • some fruit and nuts
    • a cricket
  • Black and white only
    • woodcut print
    • shading done with hatching
  • Print is circular
    • frame is square
  • Line: it’s important
    • different within work
    • children are simple
      • few lines
    • flowers and vase very complex
      • many small lines
    • lines used to define different segments of work
    • separate foreground from background
  • Shape: also important
    • solid blocks of black and white hold power
    • table with still life is solid black
      • creates border of world, foreground
    • background striped
      • blocks of solid white and bands of fine black lines
      • brings vase forward
      • children back

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