Artist: Andrew Wyeth
Title of Work: Christina’s World
Year Produced: 1948
Medium: Tempera on Gessoed paper
Source of Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%27s_World
Artist: Claude Monet
Title of Work: Impression, Sunrise
Year Produced: 1872
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Source of image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression,_Sunrise
Another way to provide emphasis on a figure in a piece is to have it isolated from any figures. Both of the pieces listed above use this technique to create emphasis on focal points. The first piece uses the isolation of the bare field to create an emphasis on the sitting girl, and then the farmhouse, though the girl is the first and main focal point due to the fact that she is closer to the viewer in the piece, as well as being larger than the farmhouse. In the second piece, the abstractedness of the lake and background causes the closest boat to be isolated and emphasized in the fact that its a much sharper image compared to the rest of the piece.
