Monday, February 14, 2011

5A - Re-imagining Visual Framing

Painting by Helen Frankenthaler

Painting re-sized by me

I chose this painting by Helen Frankenthaler. The reason I chose the image in the first place was because I really like the depth of color she created with the blue, which I feel allows the image's picture to come out. I then chose to zoom into the image where I did because this is the specific depth of color that I was most drawn to. When you contrast the two images, the pictures interpretation be viewed with affinity. When You look at the regular image (which is a medium shot) , the lines that create the color borders present a very difficult-to-interpret shape of the colors. But when you view the zoomed-in image (which I made a close up), the line perceptions are easy to distinguish. I see a coast off the ocean, with space of the ocean's depth shown in the color blue's saturation. The zoomed-in one helps creates a better picture plane, and turned out to be the image of the ocean's coast subconsciously; however, I believe that Helen painted this consciously with more space because she wanted more interpretations to be possible. Also, when looked at from the zoomed-out perspective, image can be received as a flower by the rigid rhythm of the lines at the top of the painting which, in my mind, gives me the rhythm of flower pedals. However, the color brown does not fit this profile.

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