Hi Everybody, This week we are going to look at a painting by a Spanish Artist, Francisco Goya. The title of the painting is The Third of May 1808. We will talk about color and its effects on us, and how a painting or a picture is divided in three different sections. Let’s talk about color first: Warm colors: reds and yellows Cool Colors: blues and greens The colors that are made by mixing a warm and a cool color are warmer or cooler depending upon the amount of the two colors. Purple is made by mixing red and blue. If we add more blue it is going to be cooler and if there is more red it is going to be warmer. Warm colors make us active and hungry and seem to proceed (move) towards us. Cool colors make us calm and recede (go away) from us Now look at the following painting by Goya and respond to the question: Does this painting have warm colors or cool colors? What colors do you specifically see? Now let’s talk about sections in a painting. There are usually three sections in a painting (or an image) 1. Background is behind the subject. Subject is the focus of a painting; the most important thing in it. 2. Middle-ground is usually where we find the subject-̶ Where we have the action or figure or whatever the artist wants us to focus on. 3. Foreground is in front of the subject In the above painting, what do you find in the Background: Middle-ground: Foreground: And now a couple of questions about the subject matter of the painting: The man with the white shirt is raising his hands but they are not exactly the way someone raise his hands when he is about to be shot. What is the difference? Does it remind you of any icon? Which one? Why do you think the artist has kept the light focused on the man with the white shirt? I am also uploading a worksheet separately with the same questions, so it is easy for you to send me back your answers. **** A little bit about this painting: The Third of May 1808 (also known as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid) is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter, Francisco Goya. Goya wanted to show Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies during the occupation of 1808. This painting is a groundbreaking image to convey the horrors of war. According to the art historian, Kenneth Clark, it is "the first great picture which can be called revolutionary in every sense of the word, in style, in subject, and in intention". The Third of May 1808 has inspired several other major paintings, including Pablo Picasso's Massacre in Korea and Guernica. There is a lot more information on the web about this painting. Feel free to do more research. Please join Google Classroom if you have not done so. See you in Google Hangout. Take care! Omer .