REPRESENTATION vs. DISTORTION

Eunice Solis

Students continued with their investigation of Notan. The project began with the organizing of the picture plane into 5 variously sized rectangles sharing no more than two of the same value. The upper right-hand corner is the unaltered shape. The objective for the remaining rectangles was to distort the shape sequentially striving for a balance of the light and dark areas. All of these formats exhibit a balanced distribution of light and dark. The composition would be stronger yet with a diagonal separation of the values of the positive shapes (ex. the black positives are both in the center left and the white positives are both along the right edge). This could be remedied by making the bottom right positive black, the bottom left positive white and the central positive pink.