This week i have been looking at the artist John Baldessari. He was originally a painter that hand painted phrase but this did not work out for him so he took commercial images and transformed them into his art. This is shown is my favorite of his pieces.To start off the colors chosen are pleasing to the eye, they are solid bright colors that catch your eyes at first glance. If they would have been dull or mute colors the piece would have not worked as well. The skin tones he chose are great because they add to the variety of colors used for the piece. The tones are not like his other pieces that stay grey and have the others colors bright. The composition is triangular meaning that the forms and figures make a triangle as you look at the photograph. My eye starts with the blue face, then pink arm, green face, and back to the blue face. There are also many angles created with the figures arms. I tend to focus on the bright color faces and limbs because of the forms created. I shapes created make it seem simplistic. The last thing that I began to stare at are the negative space because of the forms also created...I enjoy the negative spaces created in photographs. Baldessari was a great person to look at for the compositions he created and how he made the viewers eyes move throughout the piece.
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