Unit Four- Content

Content is the meaning, message or feeling in a piece of art. Content focuses on design, shapes, and contrast, color, why the artist used hard or soft lines. It is the focus of why is something used and the pictorial aspects of art. In the painting "The Family" by Alice Neel in 1970, the artist really portrays content in this painting. The artist painted a famous couple known for their looks and who they were. The artist painted them the complete opposite; she portrayed the wife as ugly and the husband as creepy. The little girl looks miserable and sad. In the painting is seems that everyone in the family seems to be holding some secret. In Alice Neel's work she portrays many people the same way she did with "The Family" very dull and unhappy looking. This is Alice's style and how she portrays content or real life events or even her own life. I find her artwork a little weird and not something I would want to hang in my house.