Megan+Reed

Hi! My name is Megan Reed. I am planning on becoming a biology major. I enjoy looking at different types of art.


 * Drawings**



















I chose this piece to write about because the blue stood out to me. The painting is made up of blue, green, yellow, and red which makes it a tetradic color scheme. The blue uses figure ground because the viewer can feel like it is being pushed out in the painting while the rest of the painting is in the background. The blue is very bold while the rest of the painting looks faded or washed out. The piece uses closure with the blue lines because the viewer can create a rectangle even though it goes off the page. The drooping lines on the blue part make the viewers eyes go down the painting. The part of the painting behind the blue can be grouped together because it is all the same color. I liked this painting because of how much the blue stood out to me compared to the rest of the painting. I liked the one part of yellow in the bottom corner because there was nothing like it in the rest of the painting.


 * Monochromatic Examples**

Examples of Blue

Examples of Red


 * Analogus Examples**

Blue, Blue green, Green



Red-Violet, Violet, Blue-Violet




 * Complementary Examples**

Red, Green



Blue-Green, Red-Orange


 * Split-Complementary Examples**

Green,Yellow, Red-Violet



Violet, Red, Green




 * Gestalt Principles Homework**

Closure: The container carrying apples is an example of closure.

Proximity : The squares are close together and can be perceived as a whole which is an proximity.

Similarity: The rectangles are similar and share same characteristics which is an example of similarity.

Figure Ground : This is an example of figure ground.

Continuation : The fence is an example of continuation.