Wednesday, 25 January 2017

In contrast to the symmetrical structure of the last piece I decided to take a different image and cut it up into different shaped fragments and to then re-arrange them slightly on the page leaving small gaps between them. I was inspired by cubism for this and also the film NOVA as in the film there was a Graphic Design Animation short film which showed a stained glass window which slowly broke up into many fragments that built up in front of the stained glass window making it 3D, I liked the idea of the fragments from this short film and decided to use this idea in one of my collage pieces to see if it would be successful. Hence why I decided to cut this image up into fragments. I think the piece is successful, I like how its not perfectly matched up and level so there is a slight shift between each piece however you can still clearly see how it is supposed to flow naturally. Line is a strong aspect of this piece and some of my other pieces with edges and angles. I left the figure alone to try and keep and emphasise him in the composition and keep him as the focus so that he wasn’t lost in all of the other fragments of the photograph. I put glue over the top of this piece to give it a shine when it dried to see how successful this looked.

There is an explosion of shapes in this piece and the lack of colour enables you to focus on the lines and shapes created in the composition. There is a lot of contrast between the shards of the photograph and the white background which makes the shards of the image really stand out. I personally think that the coloured version is more successful as the figure seems to stand out more and the details in the background are more visible as they don’t blend together.

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