Museum Review

Queen of Paradise - Jules Olitski

The art that I chose for my review was Queen of Paradise by Jules Olitski from 1999.  This is a high baroque painting done with acrylic paint on canvas.  The first thing I noticed about this painting is the way the colors were mixed throughout the piece, with each color blending with another at one place or another.  The use of metallic paint also drew my attention, as it seemed to catch the light as I walked by.  There are also multiple spots where the paint was applied very heavily, which he then crafted into fish and shells; because of this I believe that this is actually a lake or some other body of water, with the blue-green and the tan symbolizing the water and the bed, and the black representing the land.  After seeing the painting and the title, I think that this is a nonrepresentational work of art meant to let the viewer perceive it in their own way.