In Barbara Kruger's work titled, "You are a Captive Audience" (1963), she shows a great example of what we are working on in class, currently. Kruger creates artwork that used black, great, and white tones in a way that makes the audience feel a sense of depth and dramatics.
In order to have something stand out, I learned that you need to have higher contrasted colors to make it appear to be popping out. Therefore, I found that this piece of work demonstrated this technique in a beyond average way. The artist used text in her work (which I find to be a challenging concept because it makes the viewer believe a certain thought. I believe that artwork is something that can be perceived many ways; the viewer's aspect, and many other different opinions, the determinate being how they view life, what they see, etc. Therefore, I think she did a great job picking what type of text to use and how to arrange it in a way to overall set the mood of the piece of work, which I feel is hurtful, jagged, and shameful.
By using black in the background, Kruger made the objects that were highly contrasted stand out more to the viewer. This was a great technique. This work of art inspires how I could go about working on my project.
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