Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Blog Entry #4: From Spray Can to light: Graffiti Revisited.



This composition shows basic curved and straight lines without much detail. There is a mix of horizontal and vertical lines, which suggest calmness, which looks correspondent with the ‘light-man’, very laid back.
The amount of space the light man takes from the whole picture is maybe one third and is centered showing. This composition has smooth edges and may appear to ones eye as a serious picture because of the brownish background in contrast with the not so think light bright blue/white mix. I like this composition because it gives a realistic an intense feeling like “The Godfather” or “The Sopranos”.



This composition shows a new style of spray-paint graffiti. It gives you an illusion that there is a real human maid standing on the sidewalk cleaning. I see major contrast incorporated to show the main attention, the maid and the back ‘bricked wall’. The very dark bricked wall is in contrast also to bring to your awareness that there may be something mysterious behind the curtain. This composition is mostly in a horizontal direction. The cracks and bricks indicate a rather rough texture.



Both light graffiti and traditional graffiti has it's similarities and differences. Some similarities would be that they both emit a calm atmosphere to the viewer, both are unique compared to other graffiti’s in the same category, and both have a strong contrast. Some differences would be the fact that they are made in completely different way: one is created through light exposure, the other is created wit spray paint. The light graffiti erasable, the other is not easily erasable. These are only some of many comparable features of the two different styles of photos.

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