A couple of points on one of the book examples might shed some light here:
"The white area has the quality of thingness and reality for two reasons: it combines convex forms with the threat of a pincer-like movement."
Ouch! Cool, eh?
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Closer To Notan?
Well, I think this is marginally closer to balanced than yesterday's image. My registration faults become more obvious, to the point of distraction. Hmm...
A couple of points on one of the book examples might shed some light here:
"The white area has the quality of thingness and reality for two reasons: it combines convex forms with the threat of a pincer-like movement."
Ouch! Cool, eh?
A couple of points on one of the book examples might shed some light here:
"The white area has the quality of thingness and reality for two reasons: it combines convex forms with the threat of a pincer-like movement."
Ouch! Cool, eh?
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Amazing how just a slight adjustment can make such a huge difference... when I first saw it, I definitely saw the white first, but after a few seconds, it looked perfectly balanced to me. This was not the case with the previous arrangement where the white dominated 100% of the time no matter how long I stared at it. I'm thinking though that maybe because I KNEW to look for the white this time around, that my brain automatically allowed the white to dominate at first?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it would help you to look at this composition horizontally- to give you fresh eyes- I tried it and I think this composition really does achieve 'notan'.
~ gretchen
Very cool, Gretchen.
ReplyDeleteMore to come...