Blog Entry #4

1.       How has this work contributed a new or different understanding of color to the world?

HISTORY OF ART

This work laid down the foundation for all color schemes to come.  It is why we have some of the color schemes we do today.

FASHION DESIGN

Designing helps us understand color because with clothes you can mix and match colors that you never thought would match.  Also it helps people create new and trendy color schemes.

VISUAL CULTURE

Visual culture images help people see the more urban color schemes.  Most people just see them as regular colors but when you arrange them in different orders you can get new and different colors.

 

2.       What visual phenomenon or color principles make it stand out among works in the same medium or genre?

HISTORY OF ART

With historical arts you can really point them out easily because of the horizontal and vertical line use.  Also, the perspective in which they paint it from is very commonly seen.

FASHION DESIGN

In design art they can use patters such as plaid, to mix and match colors. Thus, making them stand out more.

VISUAL CULTURE

The medium used in visual culture art is really what makes it stand out.  Once you see a visual culture piece you know that’s what you’re looking at.

 

4.       How have they used dominance to organize or structure their work?

HISTORY OF ART

The bigger images are in the foreground of the picture making them the more dominate image.

FASHION DESIGN

In fashion design they establish dominance by using more of a certain color.

VISUAL CULTURE

Cultural pieces tend to over dramatize the dominate structure in their image.

 

5.      How do they address the human form (in the picture or in relation to it)?

HISTORY OF ART

In historical art the human body is represented in a very formal way.  From time to time you will see a nude person but they are displayed very elegantly.

FASHION DESIGN

Mainly people are portrayed as fake because they are trying to create clothes.  They are not worried about how realistic the person looks.

VISUAL CULTURE

The human body is either seen in its actual form or is a picture.  Overall the human body is rendered very realistically.

 

6.       In what ways have you been influenced after seeing this work?

HISTORY OF ART

Create new compositors that are realistic.

FASHION DESIGN

Try to test out new color schemes

VISUAL CULTURE

Not be afraid to try new things.