In this series of pages of my visual journal I simplified and abstraction a vase of flowers from a photograph into more simple geometric shapes and strong colours, inspired by the theories of movements I have researched such as Fauvism, Cubism, Geometric Abstraction and Neo-Plasticism.
I choose the subject of a vase of flowers because I wanted to use a natural form, so when abstracted and simplified its formal elements could be innately understood by an audience (taken from previous exploration of semiotics). I also wanted a subject that would provide lots of different shapes, textures and colour - this providing a breadth of different methods I would be able to then communicate and abstract this one subject.
I think through this process of abstraction, one can identify how different stages maintain enough information of the subject to communicate what it is - however once you move towards pure abstraction, the function of the illustration disappears and becomes something else.
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