... to help create the tension, also the gaze from the child is strong and helps grab the viewer's attention. The image is portrayed directly through the emotion and tensions of the artist's techniques to force an opinion on the spectator. The painting is to be enjoyed but the barrier between the viewer and subject is a thick emotional barrier and is hard to contemplate the definite reasons of the artist's ideas. _Form_______________________________________________________________ The image is naturalist and as I have said conveys a strong emotion. The emotion has probably digressed to the canvas though the artist's own thoughts. The emotion seems to me to pour out of the eyes and mouth. It overwhelms the rest of the painting and brings any feeling of joy straight to a holt. In this painting the distortion has not been create through new forms, it has been created through the physical position of the ...

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