Use of Color

Manipulatinon of Time

                                         

                 Illusion of Time

The artist Bill Viola does a wonderful job with manipulating motion and time. For me I always thought that time is just an illusion of the human mind so it can be manipulated. If we go to Webster’s definition though, time is not something that can be tempered.  I do believe that since it’s an illusion, Viola was able to use it to how he wanted audience to see it. In his work, Ocean without a shore, he displays a person who to the eyes transforms slowly but to time, ages instantly. The video starts off with a plumb and young looking person, whose body suddenly starts to leak of water and as this process takes place, life looks to be drying out of her. As this takes place, the person the person’s face gets slimmer and older. This is way to make time move in your own way without interrupting anyone else.  Even though in the natural sense, gets older only when time passes soon, he plays it to the point that in the eyes time is slow but yet the outcome displays the opposite. The way he manipulates time is like playing a trick with the mind and the eyes. Both of them do not relate what they see.

Color And Light

LIGHT AND COLOR

Color and light are two things that make the work of art bold and lively. Most artist choose their colors based on the mood they are in while painting and others just do it as a guideline to what the audience should feel like by looking at the work. From the Eastfield College Permanent collection, I chose Xie Xiaoze‘s work entitled “The Anatomy Lesson”. This work really stood out to me because of the art and colors the artist chose to use. I was really intrigued by the fact that he painted the living in black outfit and the dead in white. I believe in the artist doing so it was a sort of contradiction but at the same time a way to give audience a big enough space to think of all the possible meaning of the work. Normally we attribute color and light or anything bright to the living because it symbolizes life and then we paint the dead black or dark colors. When I looked at the art for the first time I thought it was for no reason but then I looked at it a couple more times. Finally I concluded that, maybe the dead is in white because once a person is dead, they free of all things even bad things that makes us dirty so when you die, you became clean and when you alive you are in black because you still carry around your entire burden that makes your clothing black. I do think that this artist made a good use of color to engage us in how we should think

XIE XIAOZE

THE ANATOMY LESSON