2D Design

This video immediately brought about the importance between the content of a piece of art and what the viewer recognizes about the content in the piece. The speaker in the video stressed a great deal right off the bat, the importance of content in a piece of art. He described that the design and style does not matter if the content is not something that can be communicated with the viewer. The content is more important to the overall message or meaning of an art piece, than the design or composition is. The history of data visualization is brought up in this video as well. The speaker alludes back to the way Galileo documented his observations about space, in which he would draw what he saw. In turn, this became defined as data visualization, since he would produce a visual representation of what he was seeing.    I also found it interesting when the second speaker in this video brought up the way humans can communicate with others based on visualization of data. It is explained that

                                                   For this project, I decided to choose the quote relating to driving. The quote reads "Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything is to be obliterated". The main composition in this painting is my photoshopped picture surrounded by the sunset, clouds and the water. I think the rule of thirds fits well for this since the sky and the water from the photoshop picture could be lined up with the surrounding painting. When I first look at this piece, my eye immediately goes to the orange sunset, because it is a lot brighter than the other components of the painting. There is also an evident contrast in color between the blue water and the orange sky, giving the painting a complimentary color scheme feel.     The reason I chose this quote was because driving is one of my favorite things to do. I agree with the quote and found that when I drive myself, it is a mind clearing activity and I ge