Steven Yonkers-Ortiz

Mrs. Reed

Art History

Week 1 Assignment 3

Falling Bison

Throughout this painting there are many art forms but one that stands out to

me is the implied lines. The lines that outline the bull are very swift and stroked, the

lines that are implied by the colors, they tend to bleed or blotch over. This is an

extraordinary well done piece of art. Everything from the hooves, with their broad

strokes and fading of color in the middle of the legs, to pin or needle thin lines that

stand out in the antennas or horns. The bleeding over from the dark browns to the

lighter browns are executed very well. There is even a lighter brown that highlights

the muscles and frame of the bull. There is almost a weaving or a grass whip type of

fluid movement in this piece. It shows how amazing the artist worked his tools of

choice.

Going back to the implied lines, it just shows how many different styles of art

there are in this one piece. It could almost stand as a complete starting point of all of

the different types of art that came to be. The grass whip, oil painting, abstract,

representative, fading, implied lines, the form, they are all here in one piece way

before there was anything ever written about these types of styles. A huge implied

line that completely balances the piece it the left hoof and leg that hang off the right

side of the frame. Its literally three blobs that create movement to imply a leg and

hoof. Without those lines, the piece would fall to the left too much because of the

swift lines of the horns.

"Creating" an animal in this way, the artist may have drawn details thought

to be important.” (Zeuter Development Corporation). I feel that, that statement

complies well with this painting. There are lines that you can tell that the artist took

into huge consideration and that had to be in the piece; such as the sponge like

streak and the base of the bulls end. With all of these elements that join to create

this one image, it becomes more than a cave painting, but more as a piece of world

art.