Writing Resources
A Visual Analysis of Masami Teraoka The Cloisters Tsunami The art work I chose for my visual analysis is titled The Cloisters Tsunami by the Japanese American artist Masami Teraoka The Renaissance style painting was created in 2002 2005 The piece paints a story of disorder in religion inserted in the artist's portrayal of tragic events surrounding the period it was created The oil on canvas painting is located at the Honolulu Museum of Art in Honolulu HI I chose this painting because it was thought provoking and really stood out in the room full of several other great works I walked around and looked at so many pieces but I wanted to understand this particular painting more and I knew the short description to the right of the gold framed painting would not suffice My initial thoughts were a bit less polished than they are now after looking at the painting more and doing some research on the artist and related historical events Color and choice of shapes are important in The Cloisters Tsunami as it gives representation to the different people included the red robe suggests the man is a Cardinal and the yellow robe and hat shape relates the groping baby figure to the pope
