Movement is captured through the use of layering. The figures overlap
showing what is behind but you still know is there as you got a snap-shot of
it. It is also capture through the loose
use of line, the image is quite gestural, capturing the essence of the performance over the
detail.
You get a clear impression of the
genre of the music as well through the use of just black and red (colours associated with punk), the shape of the outfits and the body language and stances of the
performers.
Compositionally this image captures the whole of the band, the atmosphere of what could be seen on the
stage. It is uses a good balance of solid shapes and line work, being busy but
also having space.
This is quite an abstract impression of this ensemble. It gives no
details of who the performers are, effectively they are only silhouettes. The illusion of movement
is created through the blocks of colour not
being solid, having a loose and soft tonal
range to them, which gives the impression that they aren’t rigid and still.
The musicality is articulated through the use of white simple, minimal and loose lines on top of the shapes. This
brings alive the character of the
music, especially as it is the instruments and parts of the body that move with the music that are
drawn (eg. Clarinettists’ leg jigging, the violinist’s arm bowing). These
visual qualities capture the experience as well as that compositionally it is
from an angle without all of the members being completely visible.
This image completely takes me there, to that experience. I
can imagine being there, looking at this performance and seeing the lights on
the stage. The array of colour,
centralised around the musicians, gives me the impression that it is more
than just lighting but it really allows me to see the music escaping the performers, filling the space with
sound. The spotlights bring out where the music at that moment is coming from
(keyboards) without defining the musicians
too much and therefore distracting from the music being experienced. It has a
wide range of tonal qualities,
adding limited light only when
deliberately accentuating something.
Immediately with this
image, I get the impression of improvisation.
The image is focused around one
guitarist in the foreground with almost electric
wiggles (soundwaves) coming out. I can imagine he is ripping up a funky blues solo on an electric
guitar. There is a very immersive spatial
atmosphere portrayed through the yellow sheen around the rest of the band
and the confetti shaped representation of sound
filling the composition. There are lots of line work used but in a gestural
and abstract way, interestingly all in colour of a purple and turquoise
colour palette which are ambiguous
colours interpreted differently by different people. You experience the excitability of the illustrator looking
at this image and possibly that her attention
was focused due to the use of a black background.
This is an extremely abstracted, simple image. It is almost
as if this image captures the audience of a live musical performance rather
than the performers. The rough line work
captures the element of movement. The lack
of detail captures the audience as an atmosphere
rather than individuals, which would almost be irrelevant to capture as they
are strangers. The variation in depth
of the line creates the flickering effect of where light lands and how much
detail could be seen, capturing the essence
of humans. The dense nature of the figures creates the impression that it
is at the front of the stage, near the barrier and that everyone is very eager
to watch because they are mostly facing forwards, without a lot of room.
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