Thomas Benjamin Kennington: "A Pinch of Poverty."

   Tuesday 09/04/12
   SNAP this painting. Looking at this piece of art, how does the portray poverty (positive/negative light)? What's the artists vision about poverty (what's the message)? Identify two artistic techniques that helps achieve his/her vision, and explain how they do that.

   I'm almost positive that no females were named Thomas-Benjamin. But you never know. Onto the SNAP.

   S- A family of three - no, four - sitting/standing on a rainy, waterlogged 
       street.
   N- Anti-poverty, probably middle to high class.  
   A- Middle-High class people who look at art
   P- To express his opinion on poverty

   The artist expresses poverty to be a rather dark thing. There's a few things to show for this: 
   One, the color/value choice. Save for the baby wrapping and the follows, all of the colors in the picture are a variant of neutral colors. Neutral colors, especially in this particular painting, are not very bright and change the atmosphere around them to be equally dark. (One could make the argument that the bright colors from the flowers and the baby blanket symbolizes hope, but that seems slightly off-topic).
   The second choice is one of shape (or, at least, that's the best element I can use to describe this). Looking at the family's faces and how they are formed, one can easily tell that are fairly unhappy.