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Postmodern Mixed Media Visual Analysis

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The Jean Baudrillard quote that I began with to create my composition was: "It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are". The denotative components to the piece come from the different mixed media that were used to tie it all together. The photo shopped face of the woman combines different pictures to create her face. The thumbprint fills in the shape of her face and the prison bars make up her blank eyes and mouth. Photo shopped eyes were added on top of the bars; one has a reflection of prison bars within them, and one has a tear dripping down. The extension of her hair was first done by using the graphite pencil as well as paint. Then it continues to ink which goes from watered down to saturated ink. There are ink splatters as well covering the extension of the woman's hair. The focal point is the woman's face, and your eye path follows her hair down to the bottom of the piece. The composition is fairly symmetrical, however ...
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I really liked the statement that these men made in the beginning of the podcast, where they said: "a scientist can say that color has an objective reality. But the colors we see are tricks of the imagination. And there is no perfectly objective view of color". I thought this was an interesting way to start off their podcast because it made me think a little further about my perception of color versus other people's. I enjoyed learning about the differences in the rainbow that we see versus that of dogs. I always assumed that dogs did not see color and only saw the world in black and white. Turns out, their rainbow goes blue, green, and a tiny bit of yellow. Dogs do not have the red color, which is used to make hundred differences of colors, meaning that the significance of not having red is much more than we think. We can see this significance in our simple color wheels from class; had we only been able to use green and blue and a tiny bit of yellow, it would look very...
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The Whole Ball of Wax

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