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Lauren Rumble
Untitled
2017
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When helping to put the show up and when I first walked into the show, I was instantly drawn to look at this piece due to the high contrast between colour and the darkness. This composition to me seems like there is a moving light source, due to the quick brush strokes and the yellow/white which almost encapsulate the viewer into a thinking about the meaning of the composition. Perhaps the red and white over on the left represents a moving car as you expect the lights to be this colour. However as the movement suggests a circling motion, the car could've lost control.
The colour on this is extremely prominent as it is on a black background. There is a lot of layering and depth in the colour which contrasts the eery feeling that the black instils in the piece. There is a reasonable amount of tone in this composition which can be seen in the coloured area as there are many tints on yellow and shades of red. These two colours harmonise against each other and the yellow area is emitting point of interest in the composition.
This theme of light reminded me of the photographs that I took recently of how light is refracted through the window in the front door. The shapes that are made when light reflects through glass interests me because they are different each time, depending on what angle the light source is hitting the glass. This shape also reminded me of Mark Tobey's work, as there is a narrow mark that varies in tone. I could use this to replicate his work, and perhaps digitally represent the photographs that I took in a similar way.
I am going to be aware of how light is refracted around me and continue to take pictures of this so that I can use them in my experiments surrounding the topic of light.
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