Untitled

Mystery Painting Description

by Emily and Alek

Mystery Painting

recreated by our Walter Hays partners

The paper for our painting goes horizontally. The background color is pale yellow. On the left side there is a narrow blue streak less than one sixteenth of the total width. The blue is the color that you see on an American flag. The third sixteenth is a jagged streak of red that goes to the left halfway up, but continues all the way to the top. On the third eighth there is a big black streak that goes a little more than half way up. The fourth eighth is all black. The third quarter is all background except for several small yellow streaks coming down from the top in the center. The seventh eighth is another big black streak; it goes out a little over the brown that is at the bottom right hand corner of the eighth eighth. The light brown is the brown you would find on the brown leaves of fall. On the top right hand corner of the brown is a dot of red that you would find on an American flag. The rest of the eighth is black except for the very top right-hand corner, which is the pale yellow background color.

Analysis
by Alek and Emily

The name of the artist who painted this picture is Clyfford Still. The name of the painting is "Untitled." The media is oil on canvas. The size of the painting is 113 1/8 by 155 7/8 inches. The painting is now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It was painted in 1960.

Our partners used the right colors. Their shapes were not very accurate. Their arrangement of the shapes was not as accurate as we would have liked. They used too much yellow, but we could still recognize our painting when it was passed out.

We should have described that the blue goes next to the red, and the black doesn't go in the middle. The description that confused them was that the black doesn't go under the brown. We could have said that black doesn't go under the brown. They did a very good job based on our description.

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