Alex+Brewer+AV

Name: Abandoned 2 Artist: Ken Reiver Year: 2010 Style:Contemporary Media: Oil on canvas 1. __**Identify the subject of the painting.**__ The subject of the painting is a abandoned old panel van in the forest. 2. __**Find details that help locate the scene in a particular time or place.**__ The time period could possible be between 1950s through about the 1980s, because the van is looks very old and rusty. 3. __**Study the way the artist created the setting. Is the setting highly detailed or more abstract.**__ The painting is very detailed, because the the forest and the van are detailed. The forest is detailed by all the trees and plants in the forest. The old van has all the rust and the faded paint as detail. 4. __**Analyze the importance of setting in the painting. Is the setting simply part of the background, or does it take on a more dominant role?**__ The setting takes a more dominant role because the forest and the van are very alike. The forest has been unattended to and so has the van. 5. __**Think about how the colors and shapes in the painting help create the mood.**__ The color of the forest gives sort of a new life feeling to the painting. The old van has given up it's old life and has almost evolved in the forest, since the faded paint is almost green. The van has accepted the new life in the forest abandoned so all the green around it, to me, symbolize a new beginning or a new life.