Task 2 (Visual Analysis)
20/2/2024 - 5/3/2024 (Week 3 - Week 5)
Wu Ziyang / 0368325
Design Principles / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Task 2: Visual Analysis
1. Recap Task 2 Brief
Task 2 demans us to analysis the picture that we choice in task 1.Visual analysis is a method of understanding design that focuses on the visual elements and principles. In its strictest definition - a description and explanation of visual structure for its own sake. Yet the purpose of visual analysis can also recognise the choices that a designer made in creating the design, as well as to better understand how the formal properties of a design communicate ideas, content, or meaning. Visual analysis can include three phases: observation, analysis, interpretation.
Phase 1 - Observation:
• Involves detecting and accurately describing the visual features of a design using your own words.
• Avoid reading about the design beforehand.
• During the observation phase, focus on looking, thinking, and communicating your findings.
Phase 2 - Analysis:
• Involves considering your findings and forming conclusions based on facts.
• Consider how the identified visual elements contribute to the overall design principles and impact on the viewer.
• How are your eyes guided through the piece, and why? Apply the design ideas you've learned.
Phase 3 - Interpretation:
• Combine your observations, description, and analysis of the work with facts and historical background from reliable sources.• Determine the significance of the design and the purpose behind its creation?
2. VISUAL ANALYSIS
3. REFERENCE LIST & BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Involves detecting and accurately describing the visual features of a design using your own words.
• Avoid reading about the design beforehand.
• During the observation phase, focus on looking, thinking, and communicating your findings.
Phase 2 - Analysis:
• Involves considering your findings and forming conclusions based on facts.
• Consider how the identified visual elements contribute to the overall design principles and impact on the viewer.
• How are your eyes guided through the piece, and why? Apply the design ideas you've learned.
Phase 3 - Interpretation:
• Combine your observations, description, and analysis of the work with facts and historical background from reliable sources.• Determine the significance of the design and the purpose behind its creation?
Write a 300- to 350-word visual analysis of the selected design (refer to Visual Analysis lecture notes and guide).
Fig 2.1 Sea Of All
Designer： Melani Pyke
Size:45.72W x 60.96H x 3.81D cm,
Sourse：(25) Pinterest
Medium:Original Art Oil/Acrylic Painting
Observation: This design work is in portait format.The dominant color is blue. The highlight of the whole painting is the accumulation of many palms.The hand in the sky caught the drop of water, and the drop fell along the layer of the palm into the sea bottom.The color of the sky is very bright, mainly orange and red.As the ocean floor gets deeper and deeper, it turns darker blue.As for the visual elements, the main colors observed are orange-red, light blue, and dark blue.
Analysis: The designs are arranged in order. The emphasis is to go from the bottom pile to the palm of the sky, and the boundary between the sky and the sea is clear. The focus of attention is on palms that pile up from the ocean floor to the sky, looking like the carcasses of Marine animals, whose numbers are increasing due to a lack of water resources.The design is balence, as evidenced by the visuals on both sides of the composition. The hierarchy in the design first leads the viewer to the most important message, "Underwater life" (design theme).The design is very harmonious, the colors in the picture are close and blend together，while unity is the use of the same shapes and colours.The movement of the design makes the eye first see the blue of the subject and the palm, and then some red fused together.The repetition depicts aquatic the bottom of the sea looks like the palm of a corpse.
Interpretation: This painting was created for the Water for Life International Art Exhibition at the Mayan Museum in Cancun, Mexico, March-April 2022.
The oceans harbor unimaginable biodiversity and provide the food, jobs, minerals and energy that life on Earth needs to survive and thrive. There's still a lot we don't know about our oceans, but there are many reasons why we need to manage them sustainably - as articulated in the SDG 14 target for underwater Life. (reference list 1)
Using water and hands as metaphor, this piece symbolizes hope for humanity. Anyone can do a simple act of sharing and make a positive impact on the world. Although the sea of need may seem endless, with faith and love one can make a difference.The design is very harmonious, the colors in the picture are close and blend together.1.United Nations "About the 2022 UN ocean Conference" About | UN Ocean Conference | United Nations
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