Baseball is America past time and the Boston Red Sox are the most current World Series Champions. In my eyes baseball is art. The pitchers in baseball throw a 5 ounce ball 80-100 MPH with precision and technique, which most people cannot do. Every time a sit down and watch baseball I am simply amazed with how much the ball moves with a single pitch and the power of both the pitcher and batter it most take to be good at what they do.
I wanted to pick more pictures to show but this one seemed to stick out in my eyes as simply beautiful. First I will start with color. The color in this pictures starts with the 4 white Red Sox jersey's. The three standing up and the one who just slid into home plate for a very important run to help win the game. With the contrast of the Umpire in black it is really something to look at, and even the background and environment colors are really intriguing to my eye.
Next there is the space involved within the picture. All the players huddle around home plate and the fans in the background screaming and cheering for there home team. We can also look at the form of all the players and umpires. The three standing Red Sox Players and Umpire are all waving their hands in a safe motion. While the player sliding into home is showing his excitement with his facial expressions after just scoring a run. Then there is the lonely catcher who was doing everything he could to prevent the score but came up just short. Adding the environment of the ballpark with its fans, green grass, and dirt I just have an emotion of excitement and what we called in class as being stupefying.
I see beauty and joy in every single pitch and every swing of the bat in baseball, but the most beauty I see come from baseball is in the heroic moments of scoring the game winning run and being the teammate that all the other players are cheering for haphazardly in the dugout and on the field. This is pure stupefying to me.
