This week of class, we have been working on the assignment Texture, Symmetry, and Gestalt. For this image essay, I chose the word unity. The meaning of unity is the combination or arrangement of parts into a whole.
This is an image of a work done by an artist by the name of Alfred Gockel. This piece is called Love & Unity, and I think that this image does a good job showing the unity of the parts in the image coming together. Even though parts of the shapes are broken up into smaller pieces by using different colors, it still creates the same shape. I think that it does a good job using the colors to connect all the pieces so that it can become a single shape. Even though the artist shows a little use of contour lines to keep them separated, the shapes are easily distinguished from one to another. Some parts of the edges of the shapes seem to blend into the background. Those shapes just start to merge with the background, and make it seem like it goes together quite well. So overall, the image does a good job portraying the unity of broken up colors to create a single shape.
