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undisciplined_hack
April 17th, 2003, 11:01 PM
Sorry if I used the wrong term. I like just started to study painting yesterday. Anyhow in this thread (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=49160#post49160) I THINK El Coro is using what I'm (perhaps incorrectly) calling resonance.

If I remember correctly and I'm not just seeing things, I THINK that if someone stares at the red lights in the picture long enough that they'll start to move...or it's like my eye can't focus on them or something. And I've heard that you can do things like this with the right use of color schemes.

Anyhow if I'm not just in need of a set of eyeglasses, then could someone tell me where I can see some good examples of accomplished artists using this effect well in their work? Preferably some fantasy/scifi pieces. I think it's so cool that you can add this extra dimension of movement to an otherwise static image by picking colors that resonate with each other

Erik
April 18th, 2003, 05:31 AM
Maybe something similar:

I was at an exposition once where this guy made a 'white' mural. It looked just like a plain white wall and i was already starting to rant on 'bullshit abstract semi-art' stuff when my friend calmed me down and made me stare at the wall.

After about three minutes or something purple spheres started moving on the wall.

I did not take anything ;-) and when we asked the artist he explained that he used different textures and colors under the painting and that the spheres where plainly visible in UV light - they don't really move but the eye can't really see it just a little so it doesn't know how to interpret.

Weird stuff.

But that may be totally off-topic