Evidence » course: visual culture

this is such a beautiful picture. the contrasting colours and the contours of the flowers--it startles you into looking deeper than just at the sky and the flowers.

great photo
can anyone talk about the relationship of positive and negative space in this composition?
what about the color startles the viewer?
how does this photo make you feel, or what does this photo tell us about karis's experience?

What I like about is the radical reduction of information. It reminds me, kind of obviously, of Derek Jarman's movie Blue, which consists of about 75 minutes of a solid blue screen. Over the blueness a bunch of sounds are collaged together, including Jarman musing on his own blindness and impending death (the movie came out the year he died).

this photo brings about a serenity in me. the color of the sky is so pure and powerful. the images in the corner add something to the picture... interest and contrast, as said before, and draws your eyes to the side, keeping you wondering...

The simplicity creates the contrast, and it all seems to work together to give some power and credibility back to simply colors themselves. Its important to never forget that the color wheel was inspired by pictures like these.

It may be relatively 'simplistic' in the colour and action in the piece, but not in the nature of it. I think that what is clearly brought out here is the beauty and complexity of something that we see everyday--the startling blue of the sky and the bright, crisp yellow of the flowers. To me, getting us to dwell on the familiar images and to remark upon their significance and beauty is the most striking implication of the picture. It would do us well to remember that though artists can create works with paints and other mediums, but God's hand in creation has wrought sights that can still capture our wonder and invoke our imagination.