Comparing Charles Seales' Filas for Sale and William Meritt Chase's The Nursery

I am going to compare and contrast two art works which are Filàs for Sale by Charles Searles and The Nursery by William Merritt Chase. I will mainly focus on the elements of line, space, light and color and the design of these two art works. The sun is the focal point of the painting. It used alternate colors of magenta and yellow for the sun radiates concentric circles. In the …

…understand how the design of the paintings has helped to reinforce the use of the formal elements. Again, the expressive colors in Filàs for Sale give a connotation of the bustle and flurry of movement which encompasses the heart of the African marketplace, i.e. the joyful and busy African lifestyle; whereas the naturalistic colors in The Nursery invite us to appreciate the harmony under the fine weather with the painter.