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.