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White on Black How to create a work of art that illustrates transparency used to unify a work of art that demonstrates how light advances and darks recede.

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White on Black. How to create a work of art that illustrates transparency used to unify a work of art that demonstrates how light advances and darks recede. Winter Window by Charles Sheeler. Shoes by Andy Warhol. Diptych From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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How to create a work of art that illustrates transparency used to unify a work of art

that demonstrates how light advances and darks recede.

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Winter Windowby Charles Sheeler

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Shoesby Andy Warhol

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Diptych From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A diptych is any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge. Devices of this form were quite popular in the ancient world, wax tablets being coated with wax on inner faces, for recording notes and for measuring time and direction. Ivory consular diptych of

Areobindus, Byzantium, 506 AD, Louvre.

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Marilyn Diptych (1962) by Andy Warhol

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Drawing Transparent Objects

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Critique

• Composition: is it Balanced?– Distribution of visual

weight of objects– Does it feel stable?– Can be:

• Symmetrical• Asymmetrical• Radial

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Critique

• Value and Shading– How light or dark it is– Middle grays, the haze of

transparency

• Contrast– The relative difference

between light and dark areas

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Critique

• Craftsmanship– Neat and clean– Did not rush– Did not take shortcuts

• Time Management– Is class time used

efficiently