One of this element are the colors she uses throughout the painting. Most of the colors used are bland, mostly white and brown. Tanning also uses different shades of these two colors, making the white in the young girl’s dress, an almost dirty shade of white, while the white in the table cloth seems to be a little cleaner, and much cleaner on the maid’s apron. The young girl also appears to match the white of her dress, with her skin tone. Tanning also uses white on the shade of the man’s glasses, giving him a more serious and distant, but at the same time present air to himself. There is also a shadow of the man in the walls, surrounding a big part of the painting. This signifies how important he is in the house, even when not physically
One of this element are the colors she uses throughout the painting. Most of the colors used are bland, mostly white and brown. Tanning also uses different shades of these two colors, making the white in the young girl’s dress, an almost dirty shade of white, while the white in the table cloth seems to be a little cleaner, and much cleaner on the maid’s apron. The young girl also appears to match the white of her dress, with her skin tone. Tanning also uses white on the shade of the man’s glasses, giving him a more serious and distant, but at the same time present air to himself. There is also a shadow of the man in the walls, surrounding a big part of the painting. This signifies how important he is in the house, even when not physically