City Night
Made by Claire Chen
Made by Claire Chen
I recreated a Norman Lewis piece by capturing its fragmentation of shapes and the general color scheme.
Created: September 5th, 2016
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I recreated a Norman Lewis piece by capturing its fragmentation of shapes and the general color scheme.
I really like the recreated piece. The original piece is a bit depressing because of the general dark hue and the fragmented patterns. While the recreated piece produces animated effect, the motions have lessened the tension generated by the original work. Despite that, the recreated piece is consistent with the original work in style as the former has almost the same color scheme as the latter. The reproduction turns out to be an alternated demonstration of the theme of the original artwork.
So 10/10 for creativity; 10/10 for execution; 10/10 for context; and 10/10 for documentation.
The only way I can see the animated version is in the header, so that limits what I can see.
Creativity: This approach to remaking the work is an interesting one. The motion of the city (captured by changing lights) is something that would be difficult for the original artist to do. Your work solves this problem and makes it a more interesting display of the city. You retain the element of the randomness of the original work in a cool way. 10/10.
Execution: A very interesting work that looks good. I could see areas of improvement to make it match the original more (such as the left and right columns of random lighting in the original). The background tries to capture the blurred lines type thing Lewis does behind his light but probably could be improved. Still, it's good. 9/10.
Context: As an abstract expression remake, you seem to fall in line with the style of the original work. As for capturing the original feeling of the work, I'm unsure. Yours does seem more abstract than the original, in the sense that you can make out a city pretty easily in his. However, perhaps you wanted to capture the full blown abstractness that is in some of his other works. 9/10.
Documentation: Although the technical process is well covered and it seems like you're experienced in that aspect, some of the documentation left more to be desired. It was not clear exactly what general emotion you think the work evokes and what strong emotion it made you feel. There is a sentence about the artist's feelings on American racist being demonstrated but more on that and more on how you feel specifically would be better. 6/10.
I think it’s interesting that you used random functions in code to mimic the “randomness” of the composition. However I don’t think the execution of the original painting was particularly random. It was likely very carefully composed. But I like the approach you took of animating the blocks of color. It’s too bad we can only see the animation in the header image. Also, you did a good job providing background info on the work and the artist.
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