Mystery Painting Description
by Ruven and Eleanor
Mystery Painting
recreated by our Walter Hays partners
It has a border about one tenth of the paper's size. The border is carrot orange. Find the middle of the paper horizontally, and make a carrot-orange line about the same size as the border. This line is two tenths of the paper above the center line. That should make two rectangles. The edges of the rectangles are fuzzy. The top rectangle is dandelion-yellow, and the bottom one is tomato-red.
The picture looks like the sunset to us. The yellow rectangle is the sky and the red rectangle is the ground. The orange border is the sun.
This painting is called "Orange and Yellow," and was painted by Mark Rothko in 1956. It is 7 feet 7 inches by 5 feet 11 inches. Right now it is in Albright-Knox Art Gallery which is in Buffalo, New York.
Analysis
by Eleanor and Ruven
We think we explained the colors well because most of the colors they painted are correct. We also think that they painted the shapes of the different parts of the painting well. They painted the fuzzy lines well because the lines that they painted look kind of like the lines of the real painting.
We think that we could have explained the colors more clearly. We also think that they didn't read our explanation of the painting carefully in the parts about the size of the border, and where the line near the middle is.