Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Absence of a focal point is when your eye is not drawn to any one particular thing in the art. This piece is great without a focal point it sweeps your eye across the entire image.














Contrast focal point is when the focal point is in drastic contrast to the rest of the image. Here the Black shadow outside the window is unlike anything else in the scene. The colors are happy yellow, reds and purples. Matise uses the tree on the wall to support the shadow in the window drawing your attention even closer. I like this painting because I know if I painted and image and added a big black blob to the window I would think that would not work. But seeing this makes you think about how different concepts can really change the meaning or the look of a work for the better.


a painting by Henry Matise













Isolation is where the focal point isolated all by it's self. You cant really see anything else in the photo it's a little blurry. The girl is the only visible focal point. She seems to be looking right at us. 


Only one focal point. This house or church is the only focal point in the picture its off center to the field and sky. The color draws you in as it is in contrast to everything else. 










Placement of the focal point. The small pumpkin is set way to the right of the other pumpkins. It would not be the focal point if it looked similar to the other pumpkins. This one hangs from a string and seems to have two pumpkins grown together. The unusualness of this pumpkin draws us to where ever it would be on the painting. Also because it is different we tend to go and look at the other pumpkins to see the differences which directs your eye  around the painting 

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