Transparency: Differences Between Literal And Phenomenal Transparency

Transparency Name Institution Date Select an image, design, or form that deals with one of these types of transparencies. The work you choose can be from anything. Try picking something you feel strongly about. Write a brief paragraph with an accompanied image. Analyze the composition and look at space, figure-ground, materials, and organization. Bottles and Knife or Botellas y cuchillos"(1912) by Juan Gris is a painting in the analytical cubism form, representing bottles, a knife and light. Like other cubist paintings, the painters highlighted the multiple viewpoints and the geometric parts. Gris uses blue, black, gray and ochre color, but these are not as prominent as the repetitive imagery. Literal transparency represents clarity associated with glass and other materials while phenomenal transparency is the illusion of transparency most common when architectural tricks and spatial layering are used and where people see reflections. The Bottles and Knife painting focuses phenomenal transparency, which is created conceptually in the viewers mind because the artist used the cubist technique and abstraction.
 HYPERLINK "/Bottles-And-Knife.html" /Bottles-And-Knife.html The dominant images in the figure-ground are the bottles and the images occupy a big space in the painting, while the knife on the ground and the painting has a small empty space. In focusing on overlapping images he created tactile surfaces using brushes to paint the fragmented figures. The oil on canvas painting has minimal collage elements of cubist works at the early 20th century. Nonetheless, fragmentation and displacement of the objects does not affect the abstract geometry, as Gris creates a three-dimensional space using layering and transparency. The painter utilized diagonal and lateral movement to represent the bottles and knife, w...