Remy+Marcus

Hi ! I'm Remy. I love anything art related- painting ,drawing, design.

Essay One piece that I found quite interesting was a piece in the Ridderhof-Martin Gallery. It draws upon many of the techniques that we have learned about in class, using Gestalt principles and elements of color theory. First, the color scheme used in this piece is a tetradic color scheme, which is one of the most complex color schemes. The artist uses Blue-green, yellow, red-orange, and violet in their painting. One thing the artist did to make the color scheme work well is to not use all the colors in equal amounts. They used a majority of the cool color blue-green in this piece with smaller amounts of red-orange, yellow and violet. Also, the artist used many tints and shades to create a variety of color value as well. They used tints of the yellow and red-orange, and tints and shades of blue-green and violet. In terms of Gestalt Principles, the artist used Proximity, Similarity and Continuation. Proximity says that objects that are close to one another are often perceived as a whole, which is apparent in this piece. All of the lines going horizontally can be seen as a whole in this image. Similarity is another Gestalt Principle that can be seen in this painting. For example, wherever there are multiple lines of the same size and color placed together, the eye groups these lines together. Finally, continuation is used in this piece, because all of the lines are horizontal, going from left to right. This pushes the eye in a horizontal direction. This piece is very successful in using many design principles that we have learned about, making it a unified and harmonious work.

Contour Drawings Contour Drawing 1

Contour Drawing 2

Contour Drawing 3

Contour Drawing 4

Contour Drawing 5

Gesture Drawings Gesture Drawing 1

Gesture Drawing 2

Gesture Drawing 3

Gesture Drawing 4

Gesture Drawing 5

Analogus

Analogus

Split Complementary

Split Complementary

Complimentary

Complimentary

Monochromatic

The blue picture has a Monochromatic color scheme.

These winding stairs are an example of continuity.

This jar with the background is an example of a figure-ground relationship.

The stone ground here is an example of similarity.



This is an example of closure. We cant see that the chain to that fence continues, but our brain tells us that it does continue.

These magnets are an example of proximity. Since they are close together, I perceive them to look like a flower shape.