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AESTHETICS “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” says Romantic poet John Keats in 18s. But what is beauty, and what is truth? Aesthetics is a specialist area describing both perception and visuality in order to understand truth of beauty. After Kings Cross’s European atmosphere Brick Lane streets. linked to Whitechapel Gallery while I was walking wasn’t seem like description of interaction.
REALITY “Forms of insulation in roof are felt or plastic sheeting, sometimes with a reflective surface. Once light crosses the threshold of the eye, the brain takes over and perceive. Perception quit willingly goes along with the illusion. The warm colors tend to dominate 2 the cool colors. Brain always picks red instead of blue. After I learned about how we see green was the perfect color to illuminate.
COLOR Perception is the most vital field in the modern study of color. Green is one of the three additive colors, along with red and blue, which are combined to make all other colors. Bergen illusion, where illusory black dots appear to scintillate in back cover was one of the example for me to select green color. 4
JOURNEY Kings Cross is an important gateway to London. After WW2, “The area became the home of down and outs, hustlers, prostitutes and drug dealers.” Comparing to King’s Cross, in the 19th century, Brick Lane attracted Irish and Ashkenazi Jews immigrants, who provided semi- and unskilled labour.
After decades of change in the area, with Jews moving out and Bangladeshis moving in, in 1976 it was adapted again as the London Jamme Masjid (Great London Mosque) to serve the expanding Bangladeshi community. Graffiti artist attempts to analysis purpose and function of visual language that’s why street is the medium to sense an artist’s work. I wanted to give people another impression of the city. Streets are not only a place to pass by.
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Ro o f s a r e m o r e co m p l e x t ha n r e m i n di n g m e p r o te c t i o n , cove r, li f e, b el o n g i n g , t r a n s f o r mi n g b ox i n to h o u s e, a n d li t t l e ch i m n ey f r o m my ch il dh o o d . E a ch d e p e n d e n t r o o f ha s i t s ow n s t y l e a n d cha r a c te r. O u te r s k i n , o r u p p e r m o s t wea t h e r p r o o f l aye r o f r o o f evo ke s like s k i n cove r i n g b o d y. To u r i s t t r ave l s a r o u n d u n k n ow n p l a ce s , t h e f i r s t t h i n g t h ey w ill d o i s e m b r a ce t h e e nv i r o n m e n t b u y l o o k i n g p a r t i cu l a r l y eve r y w h e r e. Tr a n s t i o n , cu r ve a n d s ha p e o f r o o f v a r y a cco r di n g to wea t h e r a n d cu l t u r e. T h e p i tch o f t h e r o o f i s p r o p o r t i o n a l to t h e a m o u n t o f p r e ci p i t a t i o n .
W h il e I w a s cr ea t i n g n ew i ma g e s by u s i n g e x i s t i n g e l e m e n t s I w a s e x p e c t i n g to cr ea te r e f l e c t i o n s o f m u l t i cu l t u r a l s p a ce s . Cu l t u r a l s e g m e n t s g ave t h e l a s t l o o k to s t r e e t like b r i ck s s i t t i n g o n to p o f ea ch o t h e r to b u il t u n i t y o f i m m i g r a n t s . A n d r o o f i s t h e cove r a g e o f t h ei r u n i t y. T h e i ma g e o f t h e b o r d e r s j u s t ha p p e n s to b e p e r f e c t l y a l i g n e d w i t h t h e i ma g e o f s a m e o bj e c t b u t in d i f f e r e n t a n gl e. Te r m i n a t i n g e d g es , si d es a f f e c t s in G e s t a l t p s y c h o l o g y b e li eve s t ha t we have a f a c to r c o n c e r n i n g g r o u p i n g to cr ea te g o o d co n t i n u a t i o n .
REFLECTIVITY Distinguished from reflectance by the fact that reflectivity is a value that applies to thick reflecting objects. Reflectivity is the limit value of reflectance as the sample becomes thick. Illusions distort reality, they are generally shared by most people. Shape or visual character of a form expresses an idea, convey a feeling or enhance visual impact. Often referred to as “abstraction,� distotion is wanted.
VISION Mounted images can be seen as having at least two different images to reach one composition at the same time. Automatic interpretation of borders between roofs depending on overall impression questions how we relate and combine.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Birren, F. (1986) Color Perception in Art, USA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Block, R. (2002) Seeing Double, UK: Routledge Gibson, J. (1950) The Perception of the Visual World, Cambridge: The Riverside Press Robinson, J. (1972) The Psychology of Visual Illusion, London: Hutchinson & CO Ltd. Parks, T. (2001) Looking at looking: An introduction to the intelligence of vision, London: Sage Publications Ltd. Kul-Want, C. (2007) Introducing Aesthetics, Singapore: Tien Wah Press http://colorschemedesigner.com/ http://www.color-hex.com/color/993333 http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/text/ http://www.creativecolorschemes.com/resources/free-color-schemes/
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