1998.14.1 Janet Lippincott, The Black Shade , Oil on Canvas, Museum Purchase, Acc. 1969.011.003.001 Color influences your emotions and directs your eye. Both of these artworks use similar colors but in different ways. Look at the color blue in the Deffebach painting on the left. Although there is not much red in either painting, it is emphasized in both works of art.
Emphasis is when an artist makes one part of the artwork more important than another.
Emphasis gets your attention. Find the red dot in the Lippincott painting. More information on Lee Deffebach. The main subject of these two works of art is line . Although they have the same subject, they are very different artworks.