Design Principles - Task 2 VISUAL ANALYSIS & IDEATION

17/02/25 – / Week 3 – Week 5 

Yong Sun Lu 0376945

Design Principles/ Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media 

Task 2: VISUAL ANALYSIS & IDEATION

Recap: So in this task we were tasked to expand our thoughts for the art that we picked in Task 1. We were also tasked to find something that we can improve to the art that we picked, like adding more colors, add some color correction, or basically anything that can make the art appear more attractive.

The art that i picked and some improvements that i made:

Tittle Art work : Woman with a Parasol

Artist Name : Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)

Size : overall: 100 x 81 cm (39 3/8 x 31 7/8 in.) 

       framed: 119.4 x 99.7 cm (47 x 39 1/4 in.)

Medium : Oil on canvas

source : https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.61379.html

    The art work I picked is called “Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and her son” made by Claude Monet, a French artist in 1875. As for the reason why I chose this art because of its peaceful atmosphere its given, from the skies, colors, simple yet it gives off a very calming vibe that soothes the heart  and not only that, there is also a story behind it, the wife of the artist stands on a hill with his son behind her and Monet quickly recorded the moment sketching the skies in strokes of blue and gray, a more dense painted grass in blue, green, and brown and multiple slashes of white on her back and not to mention the details of the strikes towards the dress. It is completed in a single outdoor session. The artist intended the work to convey the feeling of a casual family outing rather than a formal portrait.

    While I was observing this art deeper I realize that there is not much to improvise on this art or as you can say it is a masterpiece, well at least for my eye. Of course, there must be something that I can add in right? Well I do have some ideas in mind such as making the light from the sky a bit brighter and add some feathers on the artist’s wife back representing a wing and a light ray shining the wife’s face but I can’t stop there so another idea that comes into my mind is adding some passing leaves to further emphasizing the wind blowing on the wife of the artist as for the son I also want to add some light rays shining on the little angel. That is all that I can come up in my mind and it is mostly because there is not much to change or improvise from the art as it is already perfect for me.

Principles of Design within the art

Contrast: The white lines contrast with the blue sky

Emphasis: The parasol Emphasizes the shadow within the grasses

Movement: The wind blowing the dress of the artist's wife

Harmony: The elements in the art is giving off a soothing atmosphere

Some improvements that i came up with:

So the first idea that i came up is to make like some sort of silhouette of a wing from feathers

The second idea that i came up is making a light beam to her face.

For my third idea is to make the background appear a bit brighter

Executed ideas

Software: After Effects

Making the background brighter is definitely not the best one and i feel like i can do more with this

Adding some feather like white background to make a silhouette of a wing is fairly good but i can make it a bit more visible.

Adding light rays is my favorite one as it adds more meaning to the painting that the artist is trying to convey.

Revised Ideas

Here i change the background into a sunset instead of day

Feedbacks:

The teacher approved the idea that i showed him and he did not have anything against my ideas

The Lecturer told me to actually sketch the painting and the ideas