Andreas methods 21-11-18

I presented following image:

My fellow students analyzed and commented this picture.

These were the comments:

• Can’t tell if it is a photograph, screenprint or silkscreen: in a way it is a puzzle of medium
• Looks airbrushed
• Steve: looks spraypainted, but also has the register that you get with screenprinting (even though you know it’s not that)
• Steve: something about the cyan, yellow, magenta and black makes you think if it was created in the realm of an experiment
• Layering is interesting – looks like the circle is covered by black. The circle looks like it is rapidly speeding downwards
• Terms of material: the sphere looks like glass, reflecting light. Being held by black container
• Reminded Mia of a mask – cross where the eyes are – model of a face
• Sphere turns into a disk – kind of moving
• Physical laws, importance in color laws (subtraction, addition, primary colors)
• Abstract composition
• Would be interesting what paper would have been chosen, if it was printed: matte paper would make it completely different than glossy paper
• Ugo: reminds him of color theory in school: what color would you add to the shadow to make it dark
• „Weirdy, digital pointilism“
• Looks like a color wheel
• Contemporary context:
• Katia: the picture reminds her of art by Kandinsky
• For Jue it looks Mid-central modern (like Mad Men series)
• Streamline design
• Brâncuși sculptures: in terms of what minimal form would you have to make to create a portrait?
• Cosmic (heavenly body going through transition, passing another heavenly body)
• Hyperrealism painting
• There is some kind of play between fore- and background
• Distortion of gradual-red like a radial blur