Art Critique

This artwork is by Juan Sanchez Cotan and it’s called “Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit” made in 1602. The artwork is basically some fruits and vegetables all around each other with a black back ground and they look like they’re in a box, table, or shelf. There are some things hanging and some things laying on the table and they’re not separated their clustered and close to each other. This drawing really isn’t very colorful it has very sad dark colors.

With the color its dark colors and makes the drawing look sad and kind of boring it’s not colorful the background of the artwork is black and makes the drawing very depressing in my opinion. The shape it has a lot of shapes with the apples the carrots, lemon, and so on. With the texture of the artwork you can really see and feel the texture in the fruits and vegetables. I don’t really see or thinks there’s a pattern in the artwork.

I don’t know if the artwork has a meaning behind it, but I do think the artist is expressing sadness, depression, or just some sad type of mood. Because of the color he uses in the drawing it’s very dark and makes it seem very sad also with the fruits when he colored the lemon he didn’t use a bright yellow he used more of a dark yellow. And in the place, he drew it, it looks like he drew them in a dark place not out in the open.

My opinion of this artwork is even though it seems very sad and has dark colors I like it. I learned that through artwork you can express the way you’re feeling, your mood, or you can just tell a story through your artwork. I don’t really think I’m moved by the artwork but I really do like it.