Central Park Jeff Dehn Analysis

Central Park painted by Adolf Dehn in 1942 using watercolor on paper, light colors in the front of the painting caught my eye when I was examining the photos. Adolf Dehn uses light colors such as a light green and people strolling through the park to portray the light side of New York City which is in the back of the painting with dark and grey colors with cloudy skies. In the center of the painting Dehn uses a white and light green mixture, suggesting the calmness of the painting. There are many trees in the park and two ladies in the center of the stage with a baby carriage, with a man to their right, and three more person in the far back on the hill. Your eye catches the light color in central park and how few people there are in the park, …show more content…
On the hill there is two people walking together and in the center of the photo there are two women talking with a carriage between the two of them and that is it. It is not like New York City which is a busy and crowded area everyday which is displayed in the back of the painting with buildings crowded together. There is not much space between them as there is space between the people and trees in the park. The people are not detailed that well due to the fact that Dehn used watercolor and that they are small objects in the painting, but it is clear that the two people in the center are interacting with each other. This is the first thing that catches your eye and as your eye roams around the painting then it finally goes to the back of the painting which he uses a mixture of dark and grayish colors displaying the urban side of New York City. New York City has always been known to be a very busy urban city and that is why Dehn used dark colors for the city in the painting. I recall when I was sketching the painting I remember that I used a lot of shade in the picture in the back and use light shading in the front of the painting. The clouds in the background the people strolling through the park suggest that this is everyday life for the city of New York. The city represents that there is a dark busy crowded area but there is also the beautiful side of it and that is Central Park for New York City. This suggest that in every dark area in the world or during a time, there is always a beautiful part of it. Dehn’s usage of light color in the painting portrays the bright side of New York City and Central