CPS_week1_Observation

Theme:

Observation

Context:

Observation is the beginning of design. Observation would produce really realistic things or really abstract things. I would like to produce some abstract thing.

I researched some abstract painting and famous abstract artist for example Malevich. He wanted to abandon depicting reality, free art from the dead weight of the real world and instead invent a new world of shapes and forms.

Malevich’s Black Square

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/kazimir-malevich-1561/five-ways-look-malevichs-black-square

And I also found this web where are many abstract gif artworks. 

https://yvonnecheng.squarespace.com/abstractgifs/

Method:

I observed a pillar which has lots of stains and trace in RMIT library level 5. I think the stains and trace look like a post-modern abstract illustration. I took many pictures of this pillar in different positions and abstract these pictures in PS by using a filter and compose the edited photos to a GIF

Response

I add a filter on photos in order to highlight the stains and trace on the surface of the pillar and blacken the smooth parts on the surface. And during editing the photos, I found that different lighting led to the different color temperature of these photos. The pictures with higher color temperature will show yellow stains and trace in black background and the pictures with lower color temperature will show white or even blue stains and trace in black background. So the stains and trace have 3 colors, white, yellow and blue mainly by accident.

Downloads:

Download File: cpsweek1.gif