The artwork is many islands located in Biscayne Bay, which is in Greater Miami, Florida. The island in this photo is surrounded by pink woven polypropylene fabric. The floating pink layer seems as if it is part of the island. The visual idea behind the earthwork was to provide light to society, while also providing a great benefit to the area by collecting waste in waterways. “Surrounded Islands was a work of art underlining the various elements and ways in which the people of Miami live, between land and water (Christo).” By creating this piece of art, the artists and their crew removed 40 tons of garbage from the surrounding islands (National Gallery of Art). The three elements of art used in this sculpture are shape, color, and space. …show more content…
Shape is used by having the material so tightly around the island, this creates a sense of illusion that the polypropylene is part of Biscayne Bay.
Color is used by the use of a bright color, such as pink, and by using darker tints of green and blue to make the viewer focus on the pink body surrounding the island. At first glance the first thing you see is the pink. The artist uses this technique to focus on the theme of how beautiful the space can look when taken care of correctly. Space is also a well constructed element, as the island seems very close, while because of the distance the trees and surrounding buildings feel further away. The three principles of design that are incorporated in the piece are balance, scale, and emphasis and focal point. The piece is balanced as the island and its surrounding takes up a big part of the space in person, the picture contains parts that are much smaller in comparison. The pink color provides an emphasis to the piece. The focal point of the piece is the islands, the artists use the pink surrounding to guide you to focus on the islands themselves. The scale is life sized, as the material surrounds all sides of many islands. The project is one that was able to be viewed from land and sky. The artwork is located on Biscayne Bay in Greater Miami,
Florida. The project was made specifically Hicks 2 for this site because this area collects a lot of debris which clogs up the waterways. This project was made to reduce the garbage on the uninhabited islands (National Gallery of Art). In 1983 Miami was still in its dark ages of Cocaine Cowboys, economic decline, high crime, and shrinking tourism when artists Christo and JeanneClaude took the town by storm, creating the famous Surrounded Islands (“Christo's Surrounded Islands Made Miami The Art World Sensation Of 1983”). This artwork provided some light and positivity to a relatively dark time in Miami. To me, the meaning of this artwork is that even during a hard, or difficult time, there is light. As a society, we shouldn’t be so focused on what is wrong, but rather how we can help out and make the best out of the situation. I think if I were to saw this piece in person I would be in amazement of the beauty these two artists created and what a positive impact they had. I feel that my emotions would drive me to dive further into the meaning behind the piece. Seeing it in a photograph I know is no comparison to seeing how these artists surrounded several islands with floating polypropylene fabric. It is incredible how these two people and their crew could create such a large and powerful piece of artwork.
The house is surrounded by green grass which makes the image more realistic and the trees in the background and the tree in the foreground create a sense of depth. The image is quite well spaced out, due to a vast amount of area situated between objects. There is a visual equality in the symmetrical image. There is a contrast between the colours of the image to draw attention to the house. The image looks to be taken in the dusk of the afternoon, where there is not much natural light, which creates a darker tone. The main emphasis of the image is the house, which seems to be quite different when the image is first seen by a viewer. The texture helps emphasize the main focal point seeing though it is quite smooth, the colour also creates a mood towards the image and atmosphere in the image. The line helps develop structure due to the tone being a medium darkness. In some places (the area surrounding the house) is a degree lighter and shadows are present to help form the line throughout this part of the
The flat, painted style and narrative is unmistakably a Wei artwork. Dow: Island takes us through a range of human emotions. Seen on the canvas is unmistakably a map, a map unrecognisable to any cartographer. The islands on the map are completely figments of the artists imagination. These islands are set in a sea of an infinite variety of blues contrasting against the white stylised clouds. Giving the viewer a bird’s eye view over the landscapes. Wei’s little fragile figures are present on the canvas and are on a seemingly impossible journey. They inhabit the three main islands.
At first the island seems like it is just a nice fishing spot. Later in the story you figure out that it symbolizes the baby because of the hints the young man and women give you. They leave the trailer park in the beginning to find an answer regarding the baby. When the couple gets to the island, Banks describes, “Large, rounded rocks lay around the island, half-submerged in the shallow water, like back of huge, coal-colored hippos”(69). This symbolizes that they are at a rough part of their
This is an image that I think of when I consider Japanese culture. They love gardens like this and you see similar images often when considering their culture. It is difficult to tell for sure, but the people in the distance appear to be dressed up. It is as though they have put on their best clothes to step out and enjoy this relaxing setting. I believe that this print is successful at capturing a moment in the mid 1800’s very well. It causes me to sense and experience what the artist was trying to capture. This print seems to conform to the formal theory of art. The print has only images of each object. None of them are particularly detailed or real to life but they do a very good job of organizing and describing the basic elements of the scene. It uses similar colors, shapes, and lines to those one might find in this garden in
Canal is heavy on the use of values. The piece of art work has heavy contrasts and deep shadows. This can be seen with the building on the right’s corridor. In the middle left he uses high light to show the sun light in the horizon. On the right bottom in the building’s outer corridor Canal uses cast shadow and core shadow. The shadows of the individuals walking are consistent in not only in direction, but in length. Canal used planes to divide the surroundings with the building and lines to divide the building to the sky. He also uses lines to create movement and direction as you can see the citizens heading toward the middle of the art work. The “View of the Molo” also gives the building a sense of texture on the surface. The building does not look flat. The windows protrude a bit. One can see depth on the window sills and the bottom corridors. Canal uses one-line perspective and the vanishing point is the building in the bottom middle. Canal’s use of color is minimal. The colors are not vibrant at the same time not dull. The art work uses colors minimally. The temperature of Canal’s art work is
The name of the artwork is a term used by ‘Torres Strait Islanders to describe the arrival of the missionaries who brought Christianity to the Islanders in 1871, which means that ‘coming of the light’ is accepting goodness and staying away from the dark’. (Molan, 2011) The artwork shows several jack-in-the-boxes, surrounded by symbols such as ‘grid-like buildings’. It also shows a hand holding a torch in one hand and the other onto the Aboriginal figure in front of several white figure
To inspire the visualization of the idyllic Florida’s fields, this canvas is sized to produce that impression of your presence in the coast. With a sense of solitude that is accompany by the magic of the discovery of a beautiful romantic peace, this canvas transmits you the desire to be there. The scene makes you feel that you have found that special site where you want to be for the rest of your life in concordance with nature. It is easy to spot in this paint how diverse and unreceptive subtropical locality in early Florida define the subjective state of being. In this art he totally complies with one of the most delightful characterizations of Romanticism, he puts together the heart and the mind to idealize the authenticity of the wilderness in the scene according to what the artist considered relevant to present.
McKeown’s book significantly traces the enforcement of the bio-power on the national border control system against the background of the expansion of capitalist global order, and thus further debunks that the seemingly neutral face of modern international migration is a discursive and institutional mask for coloniality. His arguments keep reminding me of previous insights on our modern world by thinkers like Foucault, Walter Mignolo, and Lisa Lowe, who all stay vigilant to the progressive and emancipatory vision from the enlightenment, or, the western modernity, by revealing its dialectic relevance to its opposite, the suppression and alienation of humanity from disciplinary regimentation of social life to colonial bloodshed and enslavement.
The colours used in the artwork are earthy tones with various browns, greens, yellows, blues and some violet. These colours create a sense of harmony on the...
Overall Marinescape by Edgar Payne leave one with a greater appreciation for the coast. The use of watercolors to capture the light from the sun and create shades of sunlight and darkness captures a beautiful morning. This is followed by the different brush strokes that while may lack detail still allow the viewer to see the power of the waves. For a person that has never seen the coast, this painting can give the viewer an almost life like representation and experience of what the Laguna Beach coast may look and feel. While impressionistic painting leaves out certain specifics, the atmosphere created by Payne’s techniques makes up for that lack by capturing the true essence of the Laguna Beach landscape.
The composition concentrates mainly on the foreground .It has three main points of interest, the small rowing boats, the artificial island and the floating barge .It also has a stretch of trees and foliage in the background painted in a much lighter fashion. Monet?s painting has a very different composition from Renoir?s painting of Grenouillere, which was done at the same time; Renoir?s painting is focussed much more on the artificial island and the people on it. Monet uses a combination of thick bold brushstrokes and small short soft brushstrokes; this creates a nice varied look and helps give a good impression of perspective. The tone is also very varied as it is Very light in some areas, but it is also quite dark in others, such as the shades on the barge. The use of dark shades in the foreground makes the boat look so realistic and quite 3D. Although the middle ground is flatter this helps add to the perspective. The water ho...
Miami’s infamous art district with painted murals and contemporary sculptures is also a major part of Miami’s culture (Farago). Since Miami is a huge compilation of many cultures, and the people are mostly recently immigrants, new art styles are constantly arising and many cultural artworks as well. This mixture of culture and creativity is being utilized as tools to further enhance Miami’s social and economic development (Clery).
For my final project I had a simplistic approach, I had used minimal colors and tried not to create a ton of objects surrounding the palm tree. The subject I was creating was a landscape of the ocean from a pirate’s point of view. The form of the project was created so the island with the palm tree would be the first thing you would see. This is because pirates would constantly search for land, whether it is to steal or find treasure on. The content of the project is the satisfaction and happiness you get when you see the palm tree and island. As soon as your eye appears on the focal point, you understand what the image is trying to tell you. Together all three: subject, form and content create unity within the image. Each one is important to get the story across to the viewer, which is a pirate view through a telescope.
As for the artwork design and every other asset of it, this work of art is all around unique. This work of Art is three-dimensional, for the fact, it is a cube-shaped box, that has a mixture of real NYC garbage stuffed inside of it. A few items are used to make this work of Art but as the artist summed it up to be New York City (NYC) garbage that he finds on NYC streets. Such things that this artist puts inside this cube would include NYC subways passes, Coffee cups from local café’s and other miscellaneous garbage from the s...
...about recreating scale. When a person sees this piece from an airplane view or on a balcony, he or she will experience the massive quantity of the artificial nature that has been produced. However, when a person sees this piece from a ground level, the 14,000 translucent, white boxes just becomes a boring, everyday object. Depending on the location of the viewer’s presence, the piece symbolizes a different meaning. This piece is similar to the works of Tara Donavon, whose core concepts include playing with scale and working with multiplicity. She is known to use everyday household materials to create large-scale installations and sculptures. In the piece Styrofoam Cup Sculpture, Donavon glues countless amount of Styrofoam cups together to create a synthetic material that challenges the viewer’s to have second thoughts about the basic functions of everyday material.