Art Work 4-point Critique
Steve Aishman is an American artist and also a photographer. He was born in Michigan in 1975 and now working in SCAD-Atlanta as a professor of Photography. His interest is to work with a new philosophy that let viewers to see and feel with new eyes. This artwork - Super Flowers, is one of his famous art works, it is a series of 12 photographs that was created in 2008(the one which showed in SCAD-HK is 4 of them only). He grafted a variety species of flowers onto one root stock and took pictures of them. In the photographs, there are some dominant primary elements such as composition, colours, and lines.
Steve grafted more than 9 types of flowers in his series, all of them were set up in a black background with a centered position, this will help the plant more outstanding and balance. Besides, colour and lines are also important. He used some bright coloured flowers of different species facing different angles, that showed a lot of implied lines. For example, (b) contains a few types Chrysanthemums in different sizes and colours to enrich the image, and the stalk on the right and middle will lead audiences’ eyes to the flower. On the other hand, they have something similar to each other. The plants can be divided into two parts, stalks and flowers/roots. They extended widely from the stem - the focal point, and viewers’ eyes will look start from this point.
Super Flowers impressed me a lot. At first, I do not like this art work because it is so simple, but then, when I look closer, I found out how amazing the work was. He grafted so many types of flowers onto one root stock in a beautiful way, this process impressed me the most. As I started to plant since this summer, I finally realized how hardworking are the farmers, because it is never easy. In addition, I can see all of the photographs were not using a vase, he may wants to let people focus on the flowers more.
Although I do not used to judge others’ art work, but I have to admit that this is
Steve grafted more than 9 types of flowers in his series, all of them were set up in a black background with a centered position, this will help the plant more outstanding and balance. Besides, colour and lines are also important. He used some bright coloured flowers of different species facing different angles, that showed a lot of implied lines. For example, (b) contains a few types Chrysanthemums in different sizes and colours to enrich the image, and the stalk on the right and middle will lead audiences’ eyes to the flower. On the other hand, they have something similar to each other. The plants can be divided into two parts, stalks and flowers/roots. They extended widely from the stem - the focal point, and viewers’ eyes will look start from this point.
Super Flowers impressed me a lot. At first, I do not like this art work because it is so simple, but then, when I look closer, I found out how amazing the work was. He grafted so many types of flowers onto one root stock in a beautiful way, this process impressed me the most. As I started to plant since this summer, I finally realized how hardworking are the farmers, because it is never easy. In addition, I can see all of the photographs were not using a vase, he may wants to let people focus on the flowers more.
Although I do not used to judge others’ art work, but I have to admit that this is