The 2 Pictures I'm Comparing for the NYC HW

     I had so much fun at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Thursday September 27th, 2012. I found so many beautiful works of art I never even new existed. Two very beautiful two dimensional pieces are "Flowers" by Andy Worhal and "Nymphs and Satyr" by William Bouguereau. These are both very beautiful yet very different. Worhal's creation is an acrylic on silkscreen, while Bouguereau's creation is oil paint on canvas. Worhal's picture holds repetition of flowers, vertical and horizontal balance because no matter how you divide the picture it has symmetry in every way, positive and negative space do to the fact that the flowers are a blunt shape against the texture filled grass, contrast, and unity. While Bouguereau's creation holds unity and contrast, it also has rhythm, depth with a background, foreground and middle ground, as well as value in the figures, psychic lines made with the women's eyes, and movement based on the way the figures are positioned. Worhal's creation is a modern approach to telling a story, while Bouguereau's creation uses ancient mythology to tell a story. Two very beautiful works of art, yet two very very different works of art.
   However they do have few similarities. They both hold a lot of texture within a nature aspect. They both are two dimensional works of art. They both have extreme emphasis and contrast on the focal points. Your eyes are constantly moving around both works of art because of the dynamic movement. And they both are beautifully executed.