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Yarn bombing is when a person knits pretty much a little sweater for something we all see in everyday life, whether that be a stop sign pole a fire hydrant, a door handle and the list goes on. I really like this concept, and the idea of bringing something that’s so random but everyone knows into our towns and cities.One thing that the presenter didn’t mention was how the fact that it’s hand made helps mold the outsides view on the piece. When we look out in our cities and towns we see all these street signs and telephone poles, we don’t really see it as something someone made, but when someone adds a simple little sweater to something it sticks out from the rest, someone made that. I love this idea on the smaller scales but I’m not sure how i feel about the larger scale because it kind of loses the hand made look. It’s hard to think that someone covered an entire bus with knitting. Overall the concept of yarn bombing is super cool to me and I think it’s a wonderful idea

Diptychs are pieces of art that are one but they open almost like a book to reveal the entire piece. A triptych has the same idea in that it is one piece of art, one picture and it opens up into three panels which have one part of the whole image on them. This is an example of a diptych. It as a whole is one picture but each section has a different part of the scene. There is unity in that the entire piece is one the ‘walls’ in between each scene  disconnect each part yet you can see that it is one scene. There is a lack of contrast though, the whole thing looks rather the same, each has pretty much the same tone and not one part of the piece is more emphasized than another. This is an example of a triptych. There is one picture spread across the three panels. Like in the diptych there isn’t more emphasis on one part of the piece than any other. There is great unity, it all comes together to make one full piece. There is a lot less movement in this piece compared to the ot...

There are lots of ways that artists can use movement in their art. Most of the art that U have seen that incorporates movement are with sculptures that can be interpreted in multiple ways when you stand in a different perspective, evident in some of Michael Murphy’s work, such as his sculpture of a giraffe and at another perspective it is an elephant. Other artists like Alexander Calder have the actual piece move, Calder makes mobiles that have movement of each piece. Tim Prentice creates the illusion of movement in his sculptures, they are extremely fluid and look like a picture captured in the flesh. In my town there is a piece of artwork in one of the parks that moves as it rains and resembles a blooming flower.