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ART CRITICISM PAPERThe Grafin von Schonfeld with her Daughter by Elizabeth Louise Vigee-LeBrun     In the University Of genus Arizona Museum Of Art, the Pfeiffer Gallery is displaying many art pieces of oil on piece of paper paintings. These paintings ar mostly portraits of people, both famous and non. They be multicolour by a variety of artists of European decent and American decent between the mid(prenominal) 1700s and the early 1900s. The painting by Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun caught my eye and drew me in to look closely at its composition.      The Grafin von Scholfeld with her Daughter is oil on canvas art piece painted in 1793. It is a painting of a char holding her daughter on her lap, the woman being The Grafin von Schonfeld. The woman is dressed in clothing that is from the upper class or a royalty stature in the late 1700s. The clothing looks flush in existent and sleek like silk in the colors of wine and a rich green. She has a covering on her head that looks like an dissolute scarf that drapes over her shoulder on one side, also make of the kindred silky material used for her dress. The woman has pale skin, rubicund brown hair, bluish eye, and rosy cheeks. Her eyes look in truth reliable and penetrating when you examine the painting. The daughter is about the age of 5 or 6 years old. Her arms are around her captures neck and legs draped across her mothers lap. The daughter is corrosion a white fluid dress that looks thin in material with a red sash around her midsection. The daughter has the same blood-red brown hair and rosy cheeks. The mothers and daughters eyes are equally as big in size, while the childs eyes be also very real and youthful.     The mother and daughter are sitting on a bench of some sort on a ledge of a window with a portion of the window open. after-school(prenominal) the window there is landscape of mountains, trees, and a stormy sky. The sky is r ich with a high value of grays including the whites of the clouds. The technique for creating the landscape out the window, the catamount used an atmospheric perspective. The outside is slightly less(prenominal) focused and very fluid compared to the detail used for the mother and daughter.      The colors used in the painting are very vivid yet rich in depth. A combination of high chroma and low chroma cedes the limning its dep... ...oul. Maybe Vigee-LeBrun had this idea when painting and wanted the eyes of the people she painted to show the souls and the life of the people instead focusing on features that were less valuable.      The Grafin von Schonfeld with her Daughter is very interesting to look at. It shows history and context of the lives of the 1700s. The textures of the dresses are beautiful and very alluring to the eye. The porcelain skin of the mother and daughter give the painting innocence and purity, along with the loving na ture between the mother and the daughter. This is a very good piece of artwork because it draws you to it with you knowing why. at a time looking at the painting you find yourself looking into the eyes of the national being painted and seeing another life with in the portrait. The eyes can almost be eerie as well as breathtaking at the same time. The painting produces richness and a tang of royalty that people in the 21st century do not understand but yearn just the same. I was very affect of the classic style of the painting and my own yearning to have the same richness and classiness as the lives that were portrayed in Vigee-LeBruns painting.