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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Kathy's Lecture Assignment: Part 4 of 4 (Recent Artists)

 Gabriel Orozca, Kytes Tree, 2005.

The elements in repetition are line, color, and shape. Even thought the colors are simple and not too vibrant I have to say this piece is well into the contrast side of the spectrum because it is so visually complex. there are straight lines intersecting colors and circles to create rectangular shapes, and other line that intersect to create more circles. There is a lot going on and the repetition in this design is so elaborate that i actually see the piece differently every time I look at it.


 Gabriel Orozco, Untitled, 2002.

The main element in repetition is color. This piece also falls more into the contrast side of the spectrum, with it's intersecting and overlapping of colors and numbers,  but not quite as far as the previous piece as this one is much simpler. For me, the repetition of basic colors in this piece makes the intersecting of numbers more apparent and visually interesting, as well as pleasing on the eye; if it were hot pink and neon green on laser beam yellow I wouldn't be as comfortable looking at it and probably because of that wouldn't be as interested in the interplay of the numbers.


 Keith Milow, The Absence of Nothing, 2004.

The elements in repetition are color, hue, line, point, and shape. This piece is all unified by a pleasing green tint and dots evenly spaced throughout. This, and the composition of this piece makes the hard straight lines and triangles blend well with the sort of camouflage pattern. With all this, the piece falls well into the harmony spectrum, yet because of the many elements in repetition it remains very interesting to look at because there is so much to look at.


Keith Milow, Yellow Noise, 2010.

The elements in repetition are color, line, point (its hard to see, but it's at the intersections of lines) and shape. I say this piece falls a little into the contrast side of the spectrum. I say only a little because although there is much contrast the groups of yellow boxes and green boxes, they are still unified by a rectangular shape. Also, as the title suggests, the differences between all the little images inside the lines becomes white noise and less distinct as they are overpowered by the color of the lines/rectangles. The sheer amount of repetition in this piece is what gives it the "noise" effect, and if I look at it from a distance or  blur my vision it almost resembles a sunset landscape, to me.

1 comment:

  1. nice job on the looking for repetition assignment. A big fat A for well thought through and articulated!

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