Max Dupain’s photograph titled, ‘advertisement for Hoover’ makes an excellent use of lighting, camera angles and the placement of objects. Max Dupain is an Australian photographer who was commissioned to create a dynamic and convincing advertisement for the hoover vacuum. His artwork is a simple black and white photograph that uses great lighting and an oblique aerial camera angle to create a powerful photograph and advertisement. Dupain creates exquisite photographs through his use of the placement of objects and dominant lightning. Max Dupain’s selection of the letters and the hoover vaccum clearly links the photograph to the tradition of still life. The main subject in this photograph is the large, bold arrangement of letters that are selected and carefully placed to create beautiful shadows that are cast across the page by the light of the hoover vacuum. Unlike other artists Dupain has not used other studio lighting, but intead has used the hoover vaccum, behind the objects. The lighting from the hoover vaccum creates immense and elongated shadows that are cast off the page. Dupain uses the perfect alignment of the objects to create a powerful and a potent advertisement for the Hoover. …show more content…
The strong lighting and the phenomenal placement of the objects shows the audience the power of the hoover vacuum. The hoover vacuum with the stong bright ights clearly suggests its power. Additionally the use of no other lighting creates a sense of authorization. The bold, capitalised letters are all neatly arranged, are at the perfect position for the light from the hoover vacuum to pass through and create beautiful shadows. The shadows imply a powerful and large vacuum, creating great advertisement pgotograph for the hoover
Large and medium sizes of the forms dominate over small in the painting. The arrangement of the objects in this art piece is mostly centric. However, even though it is central, it is not symmetrical. The painter also touched the left edge of the burlap and the right bottom corner of it; this helps viewer’s eye to enter the painting smoothly, move around and escape from it. The asymmetry of the arrangement creates the sense of imbalance. Lam uses basic lines and shapes in the composition. Nevertheless, the painter creates wonderful light movement inside the figure with wavy shapes, which directs viewer’s eye from the top to the
The American artist Fred Tomaselli arranges pills, leaves, insects and cutouts of animals and body parts to create his pieces of art. His incorporation of items are arranged to suggest a level of perception along with a heightened visual experience. This gives me, the viewer, a sense of Energy. The perception of color that Fred uses gives a gravitating feel. If you take a look at the heart of this piece you can instantly visualize the different items Fred incorporates into the piece.
My second gallery review is on the work of Philip Denker. I analyzed the art work at his exhibit; OVER + UNDER”. I saw his exhibit Friday November 15, 2013 at 11:00 am at Trifecta gallery inside the arts factory. When I walked into the room I loved that the room was illuminated with the light of the light bulbs, as well, with the natural illumination of the sun coming through the glass windows and door. When I got inside the room I also noticed it was spacious, and the pieces were very well ordered. The pieces were hung vertically or horizontally, and I liked this because it got my attention.
I observed a very unique series of photographs by Vik Muniz called Seeing is Believing. Vik Muniz’s images are not simply photography but are pictures of complicated pieces of art he has produced at earlier times. Utilizing an array of unorthodox materials including granulated sugar, chocolate syrup, sewing thread, cotton, wire, and soil Muniz first creates an image, sculpturally manipulates it and then photographs it. Muniz’s pictures include portraits, landscapes, x-rays, and historical images.
Hopper's work is an unmistakable prologue to American abstract expressionism. The geometrical shadows on the dividers at early afternoon and the nature of the light on the items conjure deliberation. Mark Rothko once said that he never preferred inclining lines in canvases as for their situation they were supported by the light that goes into the spaces. The inclining lines that Rothko alludes to are shadows on the divider made from light, yet past the legitimization is the surface that Hopper accomplishes with his
Benjamin, Walter, and J. A. Underwood. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. London: Penguin, 2008. Print.
Many might have been working on Good Friday, but many others were enjoying The Frist Museum of Visual Arts. A museum visitor visited this exhibit on April 14, 2017 early in the morning. The time that was spent at the art museum was approximately two hours and a half. The first impression that one received was that this place was a place of peace and also a place to expand the viewer’s imagination to understand what artists were expressing to the viewers. The viewer was very interested in all the art that was seen ,but there is so much one can absorb. The lighting in the museum was very low and some of the lighting was by direction LED lights. The artwork was spaciously
..., R. 2005. Bleak Images make an exhilarating exhibition [Online] Available: www.rogerballen.com/articles/bleak-images-make-an-exhilirating-exhibition [2014, Feb. 16]
The face of the portrait is detailed, and more naturally painted than the rest of the composition. However, the left iris exceeds her eye and extends past the normal outline. The viewer can see every single brush stroke resulting in a unique approach to the capturing human emotion. The streaky texture combines with the smoothness flow of the artist’s hand creating contrast between the hair and the face. The woman’s hair is painted with thick and chunky globs of paint. The viewer can physically see the paint rising from the canvas and flowing into the movement of the waves of hair. Throughout the hair as well as the rest of the portrait Neel abandons basic painting studies and doesn’t clean her brush before applying the next color. Because of the deliberate choice to entangle the colors on the brush it creates a new muddy palate skewed throughout the canvas. Moving from the thick waves of hair, Neel abandons the thick painting style of the physical portrait and moves to a looser more abstract technique to paint the background. Despite the lack of linear perspective, Neel uses a dry brush technique for the colorful streaks in the background creating a messy illusion of a wall and a sense of space. The painting is not clean, precise, or complete; there are intentional empty spaces, allowing the canvas to pear through wide places in the portrait. Again, Neel abandons
In addition, the use of spot lighting also draws more attention to the pieces, especially in dimly lit rooms. I feel that it would also be appropriate to set an intimate, feminine ambiance, which relates to the fact that the artwork celebrates female influence. I want the audience to feel like they’re stepping into the House of Invention and perhaps even discover some revelations about themselves. As the audience circulate through the exhibit, they will feel the mystic and protection of the art and culture Indigenous artists such as Christian Chapman and Norval Morrisseau have been fighting to preserve. The exhibit will be the Future of the House of Invention, which could also serve as the
John Taylor’s picture of the signing is very realistic, especially when compared to Wolf’s picture, which is in a much more abstracted form. In Taylor’s picture the viewer can easily recognize natural objects shown in their true form. For example, the landscape in the background of the piece is easily recognizable as a forest. The layout is filled with tall trees and wavy grass. The
Graphic designer and typographer Stefan Sagmeister has always had a unique way of viewing the world, therefore has created designs that are both inventive and controversial. He is an Austrian designer, who works in New York but draws his design inspiration while traveling all over the world. While a sense of humor consistently appears in his designs as a frequent motif, Sagmeister is nonetheless very serious about his work. He has created projects in the most diverse and extreme of ways as a form of expression. This report will analyse three of Stefan’s most influential designs, including the motives and messages behind each piece.
Penn has won renown as much in editorial photography as in advertising illustration, and his innovations especially in portraits and still life have set him apart stylistically. In later years, he turned to television commercials as an outlet for his unique talent. One of the most imitated among contemporary photographers, his work has been widely recognized and applauded.
In this artwork there is the use of organic and geometric shapes, space, and lines. Lippi uses his space actively in this picture it is not just void and dull but it brings the whole picture into focus. We could examine in the picture that space behaves as insight into the picture. Space in this picture gives context clues to the location of the picture, the emotions of the artist, and emotions of the characters in
The use of materials to complement a design’s emotional reaction has stuck with the modernist movement. His implementation of these materials created a language that spoke poetically as you move through the structure. “Mies van der Rohe’s originality in the use of materials lay not so much in novelty as in the ideal of modernity they expressed through the rigour of their geometry, the precision of the pieces and the clarity of their assembly” (Lomholt). But one material has been one of the most important and most difficult to master: light. Mies was able to sculpt light and use it to his advantage.