Page+Meghan

Meghan Page 

Double major Art History and Historic Preservation some photoshop experience 4 years of art in high school was going to be an art major at one point I can bake but I can't cook realism, horses, photography mostly Renaissance and Greek era art

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COLORS: Monochromatic :   <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">Complementary: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">Split-Complementary: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">Analogous: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">

GESTURE AND CONTOUR:

Gesture: Contour:

Essay:



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In the Ridderhof-Martin gallery I found this piece. It is overall a fairly simple abstraction piece with come 3D affects to build character. It starts by uses a monochromatic color scheme using different tints and shades of blue. Although in general a monochromatic color scheme can appear droll and boring, especially in cases like this where there are only about two different shades; this artist was able to build character by creating a simple but effective design with the two colors. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This peace is done on what looks like a thin stretched material possible thin canvas with small blocks under to lift the canvas in randomized places. He uses the gestalt theory of closure because looking at the middle 3D section without all of them being closed off with each other they still seem to create the circular/squarish shape located in the middle. Also with the interchanging pattern of darker and lighter blues one could argue that there is a figure ground on the image. Playing with the idea of what on the flat surface come forward and what falls back. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">Also not only do the 3D shapes in the middle create closure for a non-existent shape but they also fall under the category of similarity to create a bigger shape as well with the many small squares creating a larger shape. Last the lines of blue are proximity because though in different sizes by putting them all next to each other in this image it creates a larger idea.