Repetition Of Form

This ad by Playtex Sport, a brand of Tampon, illustrates repetition of form.
The girl's figure is morphed and repeated from a sporty girl to a party girl to illustrate
that the tampons advertised are strong enough to keep her protected during an active sport and
again later if she wanted to dance the night away.

Gestalt 2 - In Nature

-coming soon-

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is an artist that uses natural environments to make sometimes sculptures sometimes just visual images. When he does his work, he photographs it and then leaves it alone (so usually the work gets blown away, rained on, anything natural that would happen to it to destroy it over time). Therefore I feel like all of Andy Goldsworthy's artwork is one of a kind.



Of all the Andy Goldsworthy artwork i've seen this is my favorite. If i had to guess how it was made, i'd say a person had to lay on the floor and have somebody else pour those red stones on them...no actually i have no idea how Andy accomplished this. I guess that counts as a reason to like it that much more. It aesthetically pleases me.

Gestalt - Unity

This picture illustrates the gestalt principle of unity with varied repetition.

Louise Nevelson

I'll be honest and say that i favor Louise's Nevelson's use of the boxes so far! They have blown me away at one glace! All the pieces sometimes protrude from the boxes, other times it appears that there are levels of depth to the boxes. If i was near one, id hold it in front of a wall in a dark room and point a flashlight at it to see the different shadows. Call me weird if you'd like.

On a larger scale, this is an example of Nevelson's work. Its my favorite because it evokes a childlike excitement in me. I want to go inside and explore it. My imagination is running wild just looking at it. Thats the best way to explain why this is my favorite of all the Nevelson pieces i've seen :-)

Lucas Samaras

Lucas Samaras was another artist that used boxes to do artwork.
The picture above is one of the boxes that he created that i liked the most.
The box clearly has shards of glass sticking out of it, but i'm curious about the texture of the rest of the box. Is it sharp all the way around? Is that yarn or electrical cords at the top of the box? Why does the box open at the top if the inside is covered by that metallic shiny plate? It is an interesting box indeed.

Cornell Box

In our Fundamentals of design and color class, we've been working on Joseph Cornell boxes of our very own. Joseph Cornell took regular objects and turned regular boxes into exhibits of strange but beautiful items.



This is an example of a Joseph Cornell Box. I really hope it is one of his originals because the search i did was very vast but this is my favorite. It stuck out because it has colors, but when you pay close attention, there are flower petals, shells, a piece of fabric and what looks like a shiny ribbon. Its very girly, which kind of makes me think its not a Joseph Cornell orginal...but it still is my favorite from the search.