DTC 355 Stewart 198-231

For this reading, the picture on page 231 stood out to me most. It's

Apennine by Giovanni Bologna. When I initially looked at it I saw a rock surface and not the sculpture. Then after a second I looked at the entire picture instead of a portion and I saw it.

I think the placement is excellent, it seems to be in nature, not in a heavily populated area. One can imagine some kind of demi-god landing on earth and encased in stone. I suppose I like that it isn't in a museum, that the context it is in allows an individual to draw more meaning from it than if it were placed in a gallery.

As for the rest of the reading, it covered composition, light, negative space, color harmonies, and scale.
What I found interesting from that is that most introductory art books devote chapter 2 or 3 entirely to color theory, while it gets a mention in this book but that's all. (I prefer it that way, I feel other books beat color theory to death before moving on)

-Thomas Holland