The picture above is a drawing/painting of the sun I call "Visages of the Sun with an Ode to Dali, Kentridge, Van Gogh, & Monet". The sun is divided into four parts each to represent the four seasons & clockwise starting from the top left is winter, spring, summer, and fall. I thought about the colors that are associated with each season & concluded that summer is all about bright yellows & clear blue skies, spring is basically all deep reds & purples, fall is depressing with its greys & blacks, & winter are shades of blues. Doing so forced me to think which artist use which color a lot and in the end I decided that Winter's blues make me think of Van Gogh's "Starry Night", Spring's reds make me think of a Monet painting, Summer's yellow reminds me of a Salvadore Dali painting most specifically I thought about "The Colossus of Rhodes" because the statue is looking up and shielding his eyes probably because of the blinding sun, & Fall's greys any of William Kentridge's charcoal paintings. I've been asked why fall is Kentridge when greys & blacks make them think of winter but I tell them because I'm thinking more in a deeper sense that Kentridge draws politically, about corruption, about falling.
I handed this 30 x 35" (roughly estimating) "Visages of the Sun with an Ode to Dali, Kentridge, Van Gogh, & Monet" as my 2D design final.
Btw, yes I know an ode is defined as a poem but for me an ode is also a dedication. It was by first instinct to name this piece this way & I always trust my first instinct ;]
