Precourt Critical Analysis:

     The Peter Precourt art show in Jewitt Hall seemed to be two separate shows at first glance.  Once I read the brief and continued on to read the story throughout the comic and "other show" made sense and I feel as though it is a powerful addition to the comic that was created.  Without the use of text or even a similar style to the comic theme, the series of roller coasters and amusement park rides concludes the events throughout the comic and overall summarizes that journey that took place.
     The piece within the show that I found most appealing was the two panel roller coaster that divided the the color filled comic in two.  I feel as though this was a strategic move.  It broke up the repetitious quality of the comic portion.  By creating this one giant image on two panels suggests an experience that takes place in two parts, much like the comic strip, there were multiple pieces that came together to create a whole.  I feel this piece was a culmination of all the works. 
     The clarity of the black paint on the white paper creates a great image in contrast the rest of the exhibition.  The sense of depth and emotion that was captured within a piece with such little detail captivating and allows the viewer to respond and create their own story in a sense.  Within the piece there is also contrast among the shading.  The top left corner is left void in contrast to the dark foreground of the roller coaster in the bottom right.  The compositional balance created by the contrasting corners makes it easy for the viewer to follow the movement through the piece and creates the illusion of being one complete panel.

With this arrangment of circles, I again looked a form of symmetry and then disrupted it by use of a different technique.  I created a series of circles that decrease in size from largest to smallest and simultaniously in the opposite direct increase from smallest to largest.  These series of circles create a ring of symmetry until one white cirlce was added to every other circle.  The white circle that was added created a clockwise circulation throughout the overall ring of circles.

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Within this arrangment of black and white circles I used multiple sizes and made duplications of those sizes.  I used a method of order and balance diagonally through the piece which created symmetry.  By adding the large black circle at the top right of the image and rearranging the order of overlapping it creates a focal point that disrupts the perfect symmetry that once existed.

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the beginning of 2-D design