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Image Essay #5

Filed under: Image Essays — slrate at 8:35 am on Sunday, October 19, 2008

  This is another image by Kara Walker. It is a very good example of negative and positive space and dominant, subordinate, and accentual shapes. This piece of art work is mostly negative space but your eye is immediately drawn to the black on the page because there is very little of it. Even though […]

Image Essay #4

Filed under: Image Essays — slrate at 8:18 am on Sunday, October 19, 2008

This is a photo by Annie Leibowitz. She is one of the best photographers that I have ever seen because she knows how to create tension in her photos and she thinks outside the box. This is her newer version of The Wizard of Oz. What this picture is an example of is color/color schemes and […]

Image Essay #3

Filed under: Image Essays — slrate at 7:53 am on Sunday, October 19, 2008

This image from the Renaissance has an excellent example of hierarchy. This image uses triangular hierarchy. What triangular hierarchy does is it arranges the elements in a triangular shape to indicate importance or dominance. The tip of the triangle is the baby and it extends back to the women behind it. since the baby is the tip of […]

Image Essay #2

Filed under: Image Essays — slrate at 7:29 am on Sunday, October 19, 2008

  This is the Palette of King Narmer. Most of the Egyptian art has unknown authors because it was commissioned for the Gods. The Palette of King Narmer is a great example of dominance and heirarchy. On the front, King Narmer is the figure in the middle of the object and he is being protected […]

ArtExpose #2

Filed under: ArtExpose — slrate at 8:21 pm on Thursday, October 16, 2008

Jud Yalkut                                                                        Thursday October 16, 2008, 11:00 a.m.                    Bowling Green, OH                       It’s a visiting art lecture   1.)  Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended.  This section should remain journalistic and should not be reflective of […]

Image Essay #1

Filed under: Image Essays — slrate at 9:48 am on Wednesday, October 15, 2008

  This image by Kara Walker is a great example of dominant, subordinate, and accentual shapes. This artwork has many dominant, subordinate, and accentual shapes. Even though some of the shapes are very similar in size, they have different shapes and negative and positive spaces so they aren’t symmetrical. The blood spurts coming out of […]

ArtExpose #1

Filed under: ArtExpose — slrate at 8:33 pm on Tuesday, October 14, 2008

  Black Swamp Arts Festival                                                   Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 10:00 p.m.          Bowling Green State University            This was an exhibition 1.)  Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended.  This section should remain journalistic and should not be reflective […]