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Comparing Letinsky's III Form And Void Full

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Untitled #57 from the series III Form and Void Full created in 2011 by Laura Letinsky found at the George Eastman Museum is an inject print displaying left half of the artwork with two and three dimensional objects while the right half filled with space with a grayish background. On the left side of the artwork, there are cups and plates with different depths of dimensions scattered in the center of the several papers they are on. There is also a three dimensional water splashing on top of a plate as if it was being poured into the plate from the top of the artwork. There are also three yellowish-red pears with a small wine glass close to them by the plate being poured by water. There are plates that are split in half with small pieces shattered around. This whole picture seems to be on a piece of paper where the edges of the paper is visible dividing Letinsky’s inject print into filled space on the left and blank space on the …show more content…

I can see the water is three dimensional and recognize a realistic plate and a sheet of paper from the use of shades to describe their features. There are some confusions for me because of Letinsky's use of shadow. Some objects have shadow and some do not. Those with shadows have different angles showing that these objects shouldn’t be in the same place they are placed in. I have difficulties determining from where certain objects are flat and realistic. Since the whole artwork is filled with a grayish background and the right side of the artwork is a blank space with its shadow, the left side of the artwork is emphasized. Moreover, it highlights the yellowish-red pears which then draws the audience’s eyes to the spilling water nearby them due to their flatness compared to the water. This is only my opinion from my perception of the artwork. If another person viewed it, he or she, even possibly for Letinsky, to comment

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