Part A

Question 1

Talk about use of composition, focal point

Answer 1

• only one object, plain background and setting no distractions
• centred to attract attention, most sunflowers face the front of the painting

Question 2

Talk about view point in the painting

Answer 2

Simple background and basic subject in the middle to offer no distractions from the main concerns of the painting

Question 3

Talk about media handling in the painting

Answer 3

Impasto brush strokes, thick like toothpaste, obvious messy strokes, typically post impressionists. Painted quick and harshly. Erratic like his emotion at the tune

Question 4

Talk about the colours in the painting

Answer 4

• allot of orange and yellow and creams used. From the yellow house and yellow sunflower fields
• yellow to show his happiness and joy at the time

Question 5

Talk about the light in the painting

Answer 5

The highlights are on a cream colour scale and are very natural showing natural lighting is being used. Fresher look

Question 6

Form and shape

Answer 6

Impasto brush strokes and basic not extravagant content very common of the pot impressionist movement

Question 7

Talk about the subject

Answer 7

• there is a organisation of sunflowers in a vase in the centre of a table and room. They r in the middle
• they mostly face the front. Some are dead, dying and alive
• the case is a cream basic case