WOWEE HOMEWORK! (part 2)

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"Wasted Youth"- Tim Noble & Sue Webster, 2000

Trash, replica food, McDonalds packaging, wood, light projector

210 x 134 x 66 cm (822/3 x 523/4 x 26 in)

This piece by Tim Noble & Sue Webster is an excellent example

of Focal Point, Contour, Implied Line, Psychic Line and Progressive Rhythm. 

      One of the things i find alluring in this piece is that not one, but two focal points have been created in the composition. The first focal point is the trash, which catches the eye due to it's colorful contrast to the rest of the room, which is dark. The second point is brought to our attention because it is positioned parallel to the first focal point, and this time it is the contrast of dark against color that creates emphasis. In the task of explaining and exemplifying contour, shadow art provides us with a strong and clear definition. While the shadow creates the form its self, the light from the lamp that surrounds the shadow acts as a contrasting contour that allows our brain to perceive an outline to the subject in the composition. In shadow art we see the contours of many different shapes combine together to construct a collective contour of a new form.

      The alignment of the rubbish in the foreground creates implied lines, one running along the bottom of the pile, as well as the top. The second body in the shadow also leads our eyes upon an implied line. The two shadow figures create psychic lines pointing upward, following their field of vision. I can also see psychic lines in the garbage, the similarity of the two Mc Donald's cups on the bottom right seem to be connected, as well as the the two yellow cups in the holder on the left. Color companionship is a large psychic component in this piece. I believe that a progressive rhythm is taking pace within the second body in the shadow. The sinking from the neck rises again to the hand on the stomach which falls and rises again to the second hand, then sinking again to the knees. This change in levels has a great ebb and flow, and a continuous change.