This got me wondering if there were programs that would turn my images into sounds, and then I spent the rest of the morning playing with sonification. I had already watched Fischinger and Disney, so I looked up MacLaren and found this interesting film about drawing sounds on film. While reading the sixty-five matches for abstract, I found, “The surprisingly strong expression of geometrical figures in movement has been demonstrated in the more elaborate “abstract” films of Oskar Fischinger, Norman MacLaren, Walt Disney, and others.” I put Art and Visual Perception in my kindle and searched for “expression” and then “abstract”. “We respond with different emotions to different shapes, textures, lines, and colours on the basis of qualities we perceive in them,” said Patterson, and then quoted Rudolf Arnheim from Art and Visual Perception. This may be something I try as an expressive technique in the future. Through this exercise, I noticed a zig-zag line of space creates a break in flow in both of the images with more negative emotions. The overall direction is down to the right, but also horizontal across the center. The flow of the lines is interrupted creating a jagged line just left of center. How is that expressed? The pastel color is overpowered by the brighter intruding shape in the foreground. When I look at “Interruption” I see irritation, ugliness in the beauty the chain of connection is broken. Though “Interruption” (below) is similar to “Generation” (above) it expresses a very different emotion. How is that expressed? Through the light pastel colors, the two forms connecting through their overlapping lines, the overall swoop of the design moving up and to the right, the pink haziness joining the two forms like a warm feeling. When I look at “Generation” (above) I see calm, happiness, the lightness of Spring. How is that expressed? Through the direction of the shape, the change of color from cool to warm, the dominant size of the reversed shape on the right, the brightness of the reversed shape, and composition putting the shapes in opposition with a zig-zag space between them. When I look at “Conflict” (top of page), I see forward motion being blocked, opposing forces. So today, instead of having an intention and attempting to capture an image, I’m going to look at some of my images and take advantage of that natural sequence. First, ask “What does the subject matter express?” (Possible answer: joy.) Then ask “How does the subject matter express it?” (Possible answer: the joy is expressed through soaring vertical and oblique lines, light tones, and bright colours.)” “Once we have determined what the subject matter expresses (that is, its subject or theme), we may notice how that expression was achieved-by means of particular shapes, textures, and colours.When you make pictures, take advantage of the natural sequence in which your senses provide information. Patterson thinks I should be looking at this the other way around. What are the elements that can’t be replaced for it to still express happiness? Generation by Maria L. And then select the ones that most express happiness and despair together? So if I go with yellow, orange, in the brightest tones, and the most harmoniously balanced composition, is that happiness? It’s like my Ship of Theseus question about story. If I’m trying to express happiness, I need to select lines, shapes, colors, tones, and textures, then combine them in a composition that is my expression of happiness. Selecting is choosing those parts of the subject matter that will best express the character of the scene or the meaning of the event.” In Photography and the Art of Seeing by Freeman Patterson, he says, “Once you have abstracted the visual elements most essential to a scene or event, you have to select. But today, I’m exploring “a manifestation of an emotion, feeling, etc., without words” and communication of emotion through art. I looked at expression as an abstract noun back at the beginning of my study in April of 2022, and created a facial expression out of wire for my images.
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