Representational,Symbolic,Abstract - week 15

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I want to be a designer for the advertised poster in the future. It enables me to participate in connecting audiences with the concept in my works. This poster is a successful artwork that combines the layers of representation, abstract and symbolic. 

For the representational layer, the artist present the form of the music instrument horn, people can easily recognize the main shape similarities with a horn because of the personal experience. The poster tries to communicate to public the beach music festival. The shape of horn is the first information that poster is used to emphasize music festival because of its popularity within music concerts.  The form of horn has great impact on audience since audience can connect the horn with the musical festival during the first moment. The abstract layer simplifies the horn as well as the sea animals to simple shape in order to emphasize their existence through the first sight. The symbolic layer emphasizes the location of the concert, beach, through the sea animals such as fish and squid.

For abstract layer, the artist uses many different daubs on the negative background to show that the music show would surround the mind and the body of every audience. This poster also outlines the shape of benthos. Artist use these beautiful benthos shape without detail to enforce audiences to accept their existence. The simple outlines enforce audience to use their experiences and knowledge to visualize them within their mind. These arrangements not only connect the music festival with the beach location. It will also emphasize that the music festival will surround the body and the mind of people as the way that ocean cover these benthos. These benthos are adopted within the symbolize layers to represent the activity within the ocean. The bent hoses are arranged into the shape of the horn within the representation layers to represent the musical festival.

For symbolic, the color blue Symbol Sea and oceans. The artist adopts blue tone and white tone on the poster to symbolize the sky and the sea. The artist also uses sea animals to symbolize the sea and its activity. Some colors of the benthos on the horn are washout. These effects are used to symbolize the sea water. The poster presents the music festival more nature and unlimited. The sea animals are used as part of the horn in the representation layer to represent the music festival on the beach. The shapes of the sea animals are used in the abstract layer to connect the beauty of the music sounds with the beauty of activities within the sea.

Those three layers relate to each other as well as support each other. They cannot be separated since the remaining parts can never be a complete work. The artist uses these techniques to successfully connect audiences with the concepts behind the artwork.

Representational,Symbolic,Abstract - week 14

representational 

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Designer employees the physical form of human lip and its color to build up the shape of the sofa. People can easily recognize its similarities with human lip through both the sofa and the human lip have similar abstract outlines.  The artist enforced audiences to recognize the sofa artwork by building up connection between the sofa and human experiences of lip. People can lean lightly against on the top of the lips on this sofa and set on the bottom of the lips. This design farther emphasized the physical similarities between the human lip and this work. This enforced audiences to reference their knowledges that human lip will usually has thick and bigger bottom part with thin and smaller top parts. The artist successfully employed these techniques to connect audiences with this artwork through first sight.

Symbolic 

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People can recognize the sign as a symbolize to money and value due to its connections currency. The money symbol is used across countries due to its international understandings. People reference it as a symbol since it is imprinted on currencies, such as the US dollar bill.   Numerous artists and designers also implant this symbol to cartoon artworks, banks, valuable designs, in order to emphasis their importances in values and wealth. This symbol now becomes common knowledge with value, and currency.

Abstract 

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These washing instruction signs on cloth use abstraction technique to simplify complex images into their simplest form. The artist used simple but essential outlines and shapes to construct the complex shapes, such as iron. The simplicity of these shapes enable audience to recognize their concept through first glance. Audiences can employ these essential outlines and shapes to visualize the actual objects, such as the triangle shape can connect with the iron and the wave shape represents the water. The artist use simplified abstract shapes to enforce audiences to understand the concept behind these shapes through first glance.