This is an example of the kind of design I personally am trying to emulate. It
is spacious, elegant, simple yet complicated. It’s the perfect kind of
composition for text placement to create an effective, attention-grabbing
poster or advertisement, beyond its strictly expressive utility. |
The deliberately considered interaction of elements
(subject) create this work’s content in an amazingly unified work of
nonobjective abstraction. Slight, nearly-indistinguishable line is used to create narrow transparent
planes. Line also creates subtle global texture. All other shapes use edge to
define their shapes; thick, transparent strokes overlapping at places perfect,
dense circles. Lines and edges are both at perfect perpendicular angles; where
they are angled, a sense of foreshortening is used to create invasive plastic
space. Shapes are either curved or straight; in both cases they’re perfect
versions of themselves.
Besides elemental foreshortening, diminution, convergent intuition,
transparency and overlap are used to create amazing plastic space. This work is not perfectly symmetrically balanced elementally
(it’s asymmetric), but pictorially it is. The division of balance vertically
and horizontally is on the tipping point (half way) because of the interaction
between elements and their positions on the picture plane. This work is thoroughly dominated by rigid geometric shapes. Perfect
equivocal balance is achieved in how rounded shapes play off straight; downward
motion is buoyed by floating objects; dense versus middle versus light values;
transparent and solid elements; and far being drawn up into near elements.
This work is an example of masterful eye movement control. Motion follows the
path created by the elements toward the top and acknowledging the picture
plane, down along the rectangular shapes, through the circular ones and “out”
of the picture plane through the transparent shape occupying the lower half of
the canvas. All of the amazing things that are accomplished in this work are done so
without the use of objects recognizable in reality. Spatial depth, largely
balanced proportions, viewer engagement, perfectly controlled eye movement, and
I’m sure things I’m leaving out, are all created in a language created by the
artist on the picture plane seamlessly absorbed by the viewer on their own terms.
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