Friday, March 13, 2009

The Fine Line


I call this piece "The Fine Line". It is a collage of beauty, growth life and of death dirt and wilting. The piece is meant to bring your eye in a triangle between the woman leading her eyes to the mummy and the mummy leading its eyes to the woman drowning and the drowning woman leading you back to the face of the large woman. It moves slightly into the rule of thirds but not dominantly enough to create a large effect. Line and shape are used in a unique way compared to any other median because it uses many shapes (and in turn lines) to make a larger shape in which the whole background uses this technique. This piece also has many little connections with different parts of the art work. The mummy's eyes use the color of the lake to bring itself closer to it and the woman's eyes are used to bring the dirt closer to the woman. The largeness of the woman’s and mummy’s face helps bring your eyes to them first, and emphasize the difference between life and death. Along with all the pieces that make the background, the value and hue is varied between how far away you look at it. It has a line in the center to balance out the picture and creates a lot of contrast between those two lines.