{"id":9172,"date":"2019-05-10T21:27:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T01:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/?post_type=student-work&p=9172"},"modified":"2019-09-20T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T21:04:15","slug":"panyapha-leekitwattana","status":"publish","type":"student-work","link":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/student-work\/panyapha-leekitwattana\/","title":{"rendered":"Panyapha Leekitwattana"},"content":{"rendered":"

During my visit to The Frick Collection, I was stunned by the oil paintings of the various\u00a0seaports by an English Romantic painter J.M.W Turner, or Joseph Mallord William Turner\u00a0(1775-1851). What drew me to the paintings wasn\u2019t only the scale, the expressive colors, or\u00a0the light that appeared to be glowing and radiate out of the paintings, but also the atmospheric\u00a0quality that, to me, has given a sound quality to the paintings. When I look at the paintings, I\u00a0felt that I could also hear the scenes in each painting, from the sound of the people chattering\u00a0in the Harbor of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile (1825)<\/a> to the thunderstorms in the\u00a0Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbor (1803)<\/a>. This could be due to the technique Turner had\u00a0used to display the atmosphere that has created emotions and moods that emanate out of the\u00a0paintings to the viewers. Comparing J.M.W Turner\u2019s paintings, the Harbor of Dieppe:\u00a0Changement de Domicile against the Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbor, it could be said\u00a0that Turner depicted a lively or a chaotic\/dangerous atmosphere, and a sense of time through\u00a0the use of nature, colors, light, and composition.<\/p>\n

Displayed at The Frick Collection in New York, NY, Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbor\u00a0(1803) is an oil painting with the dimensions of 29 x 38 3\/4 in. (73.7 x 98.4 cm). The painting\u00a0itself is depicting several fishing boats as they were entering the Calais Harbor, located in\u00a0Northern France, during an intense storm. The aspect of nature conveyed in this painting was\u00a0no doubt the dangerous, and even aggressive, characteristic that nature can have. The distinct\u00a0texture made by the brushstrokes created motion in the waves that seemed to be swirling and\u00a0rushing violently against the rocking boats. The harsh white brushstrokes shaped the form of\u00a0the waves and the waves\u2019 organic forms made it looked as if they were one monstrous being\u00a0trying to swallow the fishing boat whole. Moreover, the colors of the waves that were darker\u00a0on the left and light on the right of the canvas further showed the direction that the waves
\nmove towards. The overall grey color palette conveyed the rough weather condition, with the\u00a0smaller part of the painting slightly showing the warmer lights peeking in from the stormy\u00a0clouds. These grey tones were reflected in both the sky and the water, unifying the whole\u00a0scene within its turbulent weather and chaotic atmosphere. Still, the grey tones did not make\u00a0the painting seemed lifeless and unreal, since the warm-toned lights were also casted faintly\u00a0all over to add life to the painting and its roaring waves. In addition, the strong contrast on\u00a0the light and dark tones made some parts of the painting, like the high point of the waves,\u00a0seemed more 3-dimensional, as if they were really reflecting the natural light within the\u00a0scene.<\/p>\n

At first glance, the composition reminded me of Hokusai\u2019s The Great Wave<\/a> from the Edo\u00a0period; the waves at the front are very big and intimidating, taking up 1\/3 of the canvas. Also,\u00a0the objects got smaller as they were further away, in The Great Wave, this was the Fuji\u00a0Mountain, and in Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbor, the fishing boats that were\u00a0following got smaller, as well the far view of the city that was the smallest. Still, the boats\u00a0were a lot more prominent in Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbor than The Great Wave,\u00a0with several boats in the scene, as well as the main boat being placed right at the center of the\u00a0canvas and tipped to the right to both create a dynamic composition when combined with the\u00a0direction of the waves, and to depict the strength of the waves, or nature, that a boat, or a\u00a0human\u2019s creation, was struggling to withstand. Furthermore, although the form of both\u00a0Turner\u2019s and Hokusai\u2019s waves was curving and shaping a circular form around the center of\u00a0the canvas, Turner\u2019s waves curved less, but used the deep tones and the brushstrokes to\u00a0emphasize the winding form of the waves. More importantly, Fishing Boats Entering Calais\u00a0Harbor achieved the circular form with the composition of the waves\u2019 motion in relation to\u00a0the clouds and light placements in the sky; to the left of the canvas, the wave, as it swirled up,\u00a0connected to the clouds of the same color palette as these certain colors lead the eyes through\u00a0the canvas, while leaving a circular gap in the middle. In this case, the gap was the small\u00a0opening in the sky, further into the distance, that allowed sunlight to shine through the murky\u00a0clouds onto the city. This composition, of using forms to circle into the painting, is\u00a0reminiscent of a tunnel that seemed to pull the viewers into the scene that was carefully and\u00a0thoughtfully composed, to let the viewers be immersed in the atmospheric quality of the\u00a0painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9174,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9172","student-work","type-student-work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-objects-as-history"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPanyapha Leekitwattana - Parsons Notes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/student-work\/panyapha-leekitwattana\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Panyapha Leekitwattana - 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