Stacey Rate

This is a work made by Barry McGee. Barry McGee is a street artist who also paints large murals on walls in galleries. This is a great example of color schemes, unity and variety, Gestalt, and spacial or kinetic illusion. Barry McGee has put almost every type of color scheme in this picture. It has analogous, complementary, split-complementary, and tetradic color schemes. It does not contain a monochromatic color scheme. 

This is a good example of unity and variety and Gestalt because each box has the same pattern, but each box is different in it’s own way. The principles of Gestalt that this piece contains are repetition, unity, variety, and containment. The repetition occurs in each box and it breaks the pattern by having separate boxes with different patterns. This piece has containment because all of the boxes are contained into one big box. It has unity because all of the separate boxes are working together. It has variety because each box is different, but have the same general idea.