"Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh is a perfect representation of the use of color. He does an amazing job utilizing different shades of blue, yellow and green. Van Gogh is able to paint this masterpiece with an almost entirely blue composition without it blending together and becoming hard to comprehend. His use of perspective, brush strokes and color make this piece an exceptional work of art.

Travelling Companions

"Travelling Compaions" by Augustus Egg in perfection of its symmetry — the identical billowing dresses, the hats perched on the laps, the brunette-framed faces that face one another like a woman and her mirror. In fact, it might at first compare to some children's puzzle, in which one must point out the few things discrepancies between the one half of the image and the other. But as one begins to look, one finds a greater diversity of detail than is first apparent. One sits with a basket while the other sits with a bouquet, one reads while the other dozes, and outside the window a vivid and varied landscape expands, filling the center of the image.

This painting shows the use of near symmetry to create movement around the peice.

Los Heroes Building

Located in Santiago, Chile this 70s modern styled architecture building, designed by Murtinho y Asociados Arquitectos offers pleasing design and color ascetics. Recently this building underwent renovations to update a once dated building. Now not only does the building offer an interesting pop of color but also lends a hand to the environment by the use of solar panels in the colored glass panes. Finally modern architecture combines color into the scheme offering more variety in the mix.

The Massacre, by Renato Guttuso

I chose this painting titled, The Massacre by Renato Guttuso because I believe it shows the Crowded technique very well.  It not only shows that by having a lot of things going on in the piece, but also by the subjects that he chose to crowd together, human beings, which by nature if put into a situation like this we would feel crowded

UP to No Good

In this playful collage by Hilary Pecis the strongest element of this piece would be its sense of crowdedness in its composition. There is depth to its crowdedness by have objects overlap and recede in space. There is also a business to its compositions with having several actions going on like explosions, airplanes flying and random goats occupying space.

Theo Fehausse, "Blades"

 

In this piece, Fehausse uses ink stamps to create a somewhat crowded composition of blades. It's interesting because it looks like a homogenous whole at a glance, but really there are two main varying blade shapes. I think the proportions of the mass of blades and the negative space is effective in not taking this to a really crowded level.

Cat and Mouse

Paul Blow is a Scotland-based illustrator who plays up ironic, unexpected objects through contrasting colors. His otherwise-typical subjects become intriguing, vibrant, startling, and sometimes funny representations of Blow's imagination when Blow finishes with them. His limited yet powerful color palettes bring focus to key items in his works without boring the viewer.