Man made Triangle
Man made Triangle
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This image combines an original oil pastel drawing and photographic images of the landscape. I have used painting, transparencies and blending tools in Photoshop to make this composite image.
It is often more difficult to work with the square format because it is already balanced. A triangle within a square forces a kind of symmetry and linear gravitational pull downwards in the picture plane. Geometric shapes are man made, they can be measured and are the basic tools for architects and structural engineers.
Nature does not work like architecture in straight lines and perfect curves, rigid and calculated. In visual perception the artist will pull the perfect symmetry off balance to eradicate the mathematical or geometric precision. In this artists seem to work to undo the man made obssession with perfect measurement. Still balanced visually but in a different way.
Here the man is being pulled back to Earth in the triangle, because we automatically associate the weight at the base and read pictures the same way we read the real world.
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richardredhawk
very thought provoking design
rosepepper replied
Thanks redhawk. I like your mandala’s…difficult working with circles since they are also placed in a square or a rectangle.
artyfishal
wonderpul work-i like it alot!!
rosepepper replied
Really like the nic name… artyfishal and thanks for favouriting the work
Maya -
Beautiful image and writing!
rosepepper
Thanks Maya for your comment
Barbara Sparhawk
Your work certainly stays with me. Without a reminder I remember your Egyptian cave explorer, Where is Nefertiti, and this is like a companion piece, with mixed elements, but a man as the central figure. It (any emotional containment usually) is self imposed, but my first thought about his platform was that it was like a trampolene, and he was preparing for release to those ringed Jupiter like forms in the sky behind him. I love the work on the figure, the strong bending lines and meatiness of the flesh which despite the withdrawn body makes him seem alive with strength. I don’t get a feeling of end so much as pending….that he is about to spring to action…forming plans…and overall there’s excitement here. And I’m not sure I know how you did that because all the elements should lead to sadness, and they don’t. Hope here, lots of hope.
rosepepper
Barbara your extraordinary pen is not only articulate but intuitive and I thank you so. Mostly I work with women as models but sometimes men will pose and it gives me a different perspective. The muscle tone and dynamic is different and yes the purposeful endeavour to move forward and to find a way. I am glad the elements are read as not being completely closed, he floats in space and there is air (oxygen) and some little stepping stones. Thanks to you I now understand my own picture!!
aspectsoftmk
there are so many shapes in life that are indeed man made….and they tug at the weight of balance…your art touches the very thought of this… weighted down in the movement symbolizes for me the need to lighten the stuff we carry….making balance more accessable….i love your art….terri
rosepepper replied
Yes it is true…. nature does not have straight lines and the measured perfection of engineering and architecture but I guess you mean the day to day dramas, most of it chained to clocks and the machinery of commitment and work. It sure is hard to remove the clutter and find that balance but we will have to – if we want to keep this beautiful planet. There is hope. Thanks Terri.