Postmodernism Blog Post

"You are born modern, you don't become so."
    The composition of the piece has L-shapes throughout, especially with the multiple frames. The paisley around the border leads you to the next black frame, which leads you to the puzzle pieces, then leading you to the main image and the frames within that image. The color scheme is analogous because the main colors used are green, lighter blues, and rose golds colors.The denotative meaning of this piece that I made includes a modern day living room with the people from times in the mid-1900s. There are also images of today's world, with images of old times. It is bordered with a frame(s), playing off of the frames in the image. 
   The connotative meaning of this piece makes me feel like I am in the middle of two different worlds. Although they still combine and join together to create one, there are multiple differences that stand out drastically. The ideological meaning of this piece links to how the past and the future appear to be different, yet somehow there are so many similarities. Even though things be seem to be drastically opposite, there are always relationships between things to some degree. This is shown through the cars. Even though they look different from one another, they still worked the same way and got people from point A to point B. 

Tufte Reading

While reading the Tufte article, the first paragraph immediately grabbed my attention. It said that even though we live in a three dimensional world, everything that is drawn on paper is two dimensional. Even though this seems quite evident, I have never thought about it this way. When looking at a book with pictures of a city, we can imagine it in real life, but I have never thought that the illustration of a city was any different than a city itself. However, even if they have the same features, they still are drastically different. The article continues to say how we can make illustrations on paper more three dimensional like, however, it is still fascinating to think of these in two very different ways, than what I would have thought of it previously. 

Making different items appear to be more three dimensional like on paper did not just occur out of the blue one day. There have been many techniques that have been attempted over a great amount of years. Some of these techniques did not work as well as others. However, without trial and error, we would not be so advanced in the work we have today that looks more three dimensional than ever. Many artists took both the ideas of others who may not have worked out the best and the ideas who did work out to piece together what they have now. After so many years, we still can say that three dimensional drawing is at its peak, yet will over more time become even better and more detailed. 

Sunspots were something discovered by Galileo and deeply studied in regards to three dimension. With over three hundred eighty years of analyzing these sun spots, it is the one thing that’s designs have not changed by others. The same exact design strategies are used by many artists just as they were back in history. I think this is interesting because so many images are viewed again and again, and changed so many times until it is perfect. Even when it is perfect to most, there still may be someone who is not as satisfied and would change it again. However, the sunspot is the one that has not been changed at all. These strategies have gone widespread and used independently from the sunspots altogether.