The Grid

Tight Grid Structure
Artist: Chuck Close
Title: Emma
Date: 2002

Loose Grid Structure

Artist: Awa Tsireh

Title: Animal Designs

Date: 1917-1920

Chuck Close

I love this painting of his because after I saw it being made during the video on Tuesday, it looked even better. When he first started, I thought it was going to be entirely made out of all those bright colors but then he started adding darker and skin tone colors. It surprised me a lot to see how he did that. I thought it was difficult doing paintings like that, square by square, but he does a fantastic job. 

Repetition of Form

Repetition is used her to convince people to buy this perfume/cologne by making the crocodile scales look like hearts for their Valentine's Day special. When I saw this, it actually did make me want to go buy one because it is very beautiful executed.

Gestalt 2

This is the logo of the company for one of my spiral notebooks and it seems like it kind of displays Gestalt's principle of continuation. Each letter sort of flows on to the next one as it goes down.

Andy Goldsworthy

I really like this image because the way the leaves are placed actually makes it look like it was already sitting like that besides the little hole in the middle. I also like the contrast between the colors of the leaves and the rest of the area.

Unity - Gestalt

This image below is representative of one of the many Gestalt Principles. The principle that is being expressed in this image is proximity. The fifteen human figures put closely together makes the whole image look like a tree. 

Louise Nevelson

This piece, called Rain Garden II, is very unique. When I look at it, it looks to me like a garden full of different kinds of fruits and vegetables. I can never get tired of looking at this piece of artwork because there are so many different shapes to observe within the whole piece. It is said that she creates her work by using things that people would normally throw out and brings new life to them that wasn't intentionally made to be.

Lucas Samaras

Lucas Samaras is a very interesting artist. Most of his artwork concerning boxes tend to be a little distorted and disturbing to me. The piece I have chosen below is one of his more interesting looking creations. When I look at this, it kind of looks like a box full of interesting items he has come across from time to time. The box itself looks quite beautiful, as well.