Thursday, October 25, 2012
Triangles, Rectangles, and Circles oh my!
I have really enjoyed reading the Molly Bang book. The concepts that are talked about by Bang are things that we all observer and know but rarely to we really see these concepts. In Verbal and Visual Rhetorical we read about simplification of as argument for amplification. "When we Abstract an image we're not so much eliminating details as we are focusing on specific details. By stripping down an image to its essential meaning an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't." (McCloud). I really like this quote because of the universal truth of it. As artist we all strive for access to a large audience and sometime we over complete our images in the hope that we will reach as many people as possible. But Molly Bang and Scott McCloud remind us that simplification can be an elegant solution.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
This book is very timely for my campaign--as is your post. I am struggling right now between using photographs or shape representations of my concept. I appreciate the idea of simplification for amplification. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting, isn't it? Makes me think twice about putting things on the page. I like your illustration about generalizations. This definitely got my mind going!
ReplyDelete