Class presentations of Visual Essays

During class we had many presentations of our visual essay on public art that we created which also encompasses a theme relating all of the pictures. I found some of them to be quite interesting including contrasting the styles of new art designs verses the modern art designs, public art that is used and those that are not, cars that stand as public art themselves or how other art can change the feel, art that have similar designs as other countries as well as different cultural art. A lot of pictures were taken in areas confined in Atlanta, GA which is not a bad place because we do have the Centennial Olympic Park with many statues dedicated to the Olympic Games. On the other hand some people had pictures from New York and Colorado. People also chose to take pictures at different angles of the same object to show how seeing the art work in one perspective can limit the viewer all that they can see or they contrasted a picture of an object far away and subsequently followed that picture with a close up view of it to show the details better. Many people demonstrated in their pictures the effect on lighting if it was natural sunlight bouncing off a window or multi-colored lighting on buildings and fountains from light bulbs. Furthermore I found it very interesting that some people posed in their pictures to show interaction with them and how public art is for the public to engage with. The presentations were a great way to see the many pieces of art that I would have missed if people had not shown it to me.