Polynesian Wyland Gallery

Step 1: The title of the art gallery is Wyland Art. There are two located on Disney property one at the Polynesian Resort and one at the Boardwalk Resort. For this project I will be discussing the Polynesian gallery. I think the overall theme of the gallery is paintings with Disney characters in them or sunsets and ocean paintings since Florida is a tropical place. The paintings seen in this gallery are mainly those types of paintings. There are many different artists that have paintings in this gallery. I was unable to take pictures myself, but Wyland Gallerias have a website that you can view all the paintings in the gallery. The website is Wylandflorida.com. This gives a list of all the artists that have work in the gallery and shows their art pieces as well. The website was helpful because I was still able to upload the certain paintings I wanted to discuss about, even though I couldn't take the picture myself.

Step 2: The type of lighting that is used is directly on the paintings so the public can see them better. The light focuses on the paintings. I think this is so that guests notice the paintings rather than just have ordinary lighting on the ceilings. The lighting isn't too bright either. The colors on the walls are neutral colors. It makes the paintings look better using neutral colors such as browns and tans because it doesn't focus the viewers eye to the wall it makes them look at the painting instead. Some of the walls are wooden as well. The movement of the viewer is in a circle. The art gallery isn't very big because it's located in a resort, but there is still many pieces of art to see. The paintings are close together so there are a lot of different ones. The reason the art gallery is set up like this is so that the viewers see every piece of work it has to often because they just follow the circle. There are shelfs near the window that include glass sculptures that aren't on the walls. This allows the viewer to see paintings, but also glass sculptures as well. It gives them a variety of art to look at.

Step 3: The artwork is organized on the walls. It has a mixture of paintings with Disney characters and ocean view pictures. The artworks are similar because many of the have Mickey or Minnie in them as well as other Disney characters. This leaves the viewer with something to remember. There are also many ocean paintings with palm trees and sunsets. The paintings are different because each artist has their own way of creating art. Even though they are on similar topics like the Disney characters they each have their own work into them and the way they do things. The pieces of art are framed mainly in black or brown frames. This is as well a neutral color. The framework completes the artwork. It makes it look much better because it gives it character. The artwork is identified and labeled by showing who the artist who created it is and what the name of the artwork is. This is useful because people sometimes cannot read the artists signature at the bottom for various reasons. The paintings are fairly close to each other. This is so they are able to fit more artwork into the small area that they have. These gives the guests more options to look at because they aren't spaced out. It's very interesting that Disney has art galleries located right in Disney. I think this is helpful in showing people numerous artists because Disney is one of the most popular places in the world and has many tourists.

Step 4: 

The first painting I have selected to discuss is Children of the Sea by Wyland. This painting to me was very cool. I like how the dolphins are labeled as the children. When he refers to children of the sea, he means the dolphins. The choice of blue coloring he used in this is very pretty. He uses dark blue at the bottom of the ocean and light blue at the top. This makes sense because the further down the ocean you get, the darker it is. It is more lighted at the top because of the sun. He makes rocks at the bottom to show that the dolphins are at the bottom of the ocean. The title gives the viewer the opportunity to decide what they think the painting is about. I think this painting is describing dolphins and how they play around at sea. His message may be to let us know that dolphins do live there and they are important. Since they do live in the ocean it is important to keep it clean. This could be why he chose to make the ocean clear and clean.

The second painting I have choose to discuss is by Walfrido Garcia. It is of an ocean and a sunset. This specific one stood out to me because of his use of colors. He makes certain parts of the waves stand out by using a greenish blue color. It is a very beautiful color. He continues to make the waves as if they were real life like. I like how he adds the sunset reflecting on the ocean. This also makes it look real life like. His painting is the type of paradise most people would enjoy to be in. In the sky he uses red and orange. This makes the sunset stand out because of the bright red. He added rocks to this drawing as well. Lastly, it the viewer looks closely they can see that there is a whale fin in the water. Overall, I thought this painting was extremely pretty.


The last painting I chose to discuss was by Rodel Gonzalez. This was one of my favorite painting because it is of the Disney castle. I like that he added more to it other that just the

castle as Disney. He choose to have white horses running towards it. I think he used white horses because white horses and very pretty and not average. The white horses could be referencing Cinderella's white horses because that's what color they were in the movie. Since they are going towards "Cinderella's castle" it seems as if they were referencing her horses. He has the castle reflecting on the water in a mixture of baby blue and white. This makes the painting look better. He also uses pink and orange in the sky. This is because he is making it look like what the sky looks like right as the sun is going down.

I really enjoyed this art gallery. I think it is great that Disney offers this to guests. It has made me more interested in paintings because most of these work is truly amazing. Many artists know how to make a painting life like. They also do a great job at making the characters look the correct way. Their use of colors really makes the paintings unique. It interesting to see the ideas that these people come up with because of their creativity.