AHIST 1401 Art History - Term 4, INTRODUCTION TO ART

I have a small painting done on canvas board that hangs in my bathroom and has done so for ten years. Every day I look at it and it brings me joy, it is not done by any artist you may have heard of but by my daughter when she was young. It is an eight by eleven canvas board with a simple acrylic painting of a house in blues and greens and brown. It would have been a calm simple piece until she went over the entire board with swirls of various shades of purple and reds creating a feeling of whimsical chaos. The space on the piece is only partially taken up with the house, the remainder is overlapping colors that remind you of something between a Willy Wonka lollipop and the tornado from the Wizard of Oz. Something between the calm straight lines and cool colors of the house to the warm moving colors of the swirls capture my attention and make this artwork my favorite.