Sunday, February 12, 2012

can everyone find a portrait that uses color in an evocative manner?

photo by michael schmelling

where color is a subject and method to create additional meaning for the scene/space depicted?

write a blurb like mine below where you discuss the image quickly with multiple specific points...
second, make sure to give at least 3 comments to your classmates posts, try to write another point they may have missed with their post relating to COLOR!  have fun!

i like this photo for its wash of cool color...tension is reduced by the colors being allied, the wall becomes almost a sky that mimics the airborne flight the rapper/mc seems to be suggesting with his gesture.  because this image involves a certain daydreaminess, the expressive color seems like an appropriate device to slightly move us away from the everyay.  the paper on the ground near his foot is the curious detail we may focus on but not sure what its hiding.  the wall/pavement also speaks of 'the street' and a certain juxtaposition between being on the street in reality vs the skyward aspirations of the subject.

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