Comments on: Orientation http://artandperception.com/2007/05/orientation.html a multi-disciplinary dialog Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:13:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Karl Zipser http://artandperception.com/2007/05/orientation.html#comment-19070 Karl Zipser Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:18:02 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/05/orientation.html#comment-19070 Orientation can have a radical effect on the way a picture looks. I sometimes find that a painting of a head or face looks better upside-down. At first I thought it was an effect of a novel view. Later I realized, or came to suspect at least, that it had to do with interpretations of gravity. What might seem heavy in the right-side up view would seem to float upward in the upside-down view. Orientation can have a radical effect on the way a picture looks. I sometimes find that a painting of a head or face looks better upside-down. At first I thought it was an effect of a novel view. Later I realized, or came to suspect at least, that it had to do with interpretations of gravity. What might seem heavy in the right-side up view would seem to float upward in the upside-down view.

]]> By: Mark Illingworth http://artandperception.com/2007/05/orientation.html#comment-18593 Mark Illingworth Wed, 30 May 2007 17:19:18 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/05/orientation.html#comment-18593 Steve I use varied orientations to allow different brush stroke directions that create the colour and abstraction effects I try to achieve. It sometimes helps me to focus on the location of dark and light tones. It also helps me to work with the location and relationship of colours from different perspectives rather than being distracted by trying to get shapes right initally. Sometimes viewing the same image from a different perspective somehow helps me see if it all hangs together on the actual orientation of the picture. Steve
I use varied orientations to allow different brush stroke directions that create the colour and abstraction effects I try to achieve. It sometimes helps me to focus on the location of dark and light tones. It also helps me to work with the location and relationship of colours from different perspectives rather than being distracted by trying to get shapes right initally. Sometimes viewing the same image from a different perspective somehow helps me see if it all hangs together on the actual orientation of the picture.

]]> By: Steve Durbin http://artandperception.com/2007/05/orientation.html#comment-18588 Steve Durbin Wed, 30 May 2007 16:20:43 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/05/orientation.html#comment-18588 Mark, I'm surprised to learn a painter also tries different orientations. Even though your paintings are quite abstract, there is still a lot of reference to real world objects, such as people, bicycles, etc. Do you look at different orientations to get a better sense of how to distribute color, or do you actually sometimes change the orientation from an earlier stage, before oriented referents are introduced? Mark,
I’m surprised to learn a painter also tries different orientations. Even though your paintings are quite abstract, there is still a lot of reference to real world objects, such as people, bicycles, etc. Do you look at different orientations to get a better sense of how to distribute color, or do you actually sometimes change the orientation from an earlier stage, before oriented referents are introduced?

]]> By: Mark Illingworth http://artandperception.com/2007/05/orientation.html#comment-18580 Mark Illingworth Wed, 30 May 2007 15:04:17 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/05/orientation.html#comment-18580 It's catching!!! - I took a recent photo which is called Baking Tray Blues - the colours and shapes on the underside of a wet baking tray had me jumping for the camera! Maybe it's part of my continued development into the world of blue and it's effect on our inner being as a colour. Anyway Steve (yes I'm back to comment after a spell in the studio!) I really appreciate what can happen during the orientation of a picture - I actually rotate my canvas many times when painting. It’s catching!!! - I took a recent photo which is called Baking Tray Blues - the colours and shapes on the underside of a wet baking tray had me jumping for the camera!

Maybe it’s part of my continued development into the world of blue and it’s effect on our inner being as a colour.

Anyway Steve (yes I’m back to comment after a spell in the studio!) I really appreciate what can happen during the orientation of a picture - I actually rotate my canvas many times when painting.

]]> By: Sunil Gangadharan http://artandperception.com/2007/05/orientation.html#comment-18460 Sunil Gangadharan Tue, 29 May 2007 14:15:04 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/05/orientation.html#comment-18460 Steve, Three years back I dragged my family to Dia:Beacon and remember being castigated for the meaninglessness of modern art by members of my family (the echoes of which reverberate even today). What I would not forget was the numerous times I was drawn to the John Chamberlain sculptures and myriad shapes that I saw in the twisted hunks of 'found automobile parts' that he created seemingly at random but had a unified beauty that I could not describe adequately. The picture of the rusted automobile just bought back that moment for me. Steve,
Three years back I dragged my family to Dia:Beacon and remember being castigated for the meaninglessness of modern art by members of my family (the echoes of which reverberate even today). What I would not forget was the numerous times I was drawn to the John Chamberlain sculptures and myriad shapes that I saw in the twisted hunks of ‘found automobile parts’ that he created seemingly at random but had a unified beauty that I could not describe adequately. The picture of the rusted automobile just bought back that moment for me.

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