art and visual

1. "Abbott": Firstly, this picture is showed with a very strong contrast in color - balck and white, which literally let people feel serious. Also, there were almost horizontal and vertical straight lines, which outline as well as divide the background bulidings, meanwhile, these straight lines seem to communicate an solemn emotion. Third, a flag of United State takes quater scale in picture, and it is the only moving object that allows to add jumpy rhythm in picture, in short, the flag seems to break the serious balance in picture and then emphasis the freedom(movement) under such a strict and silent surrounding. Fourth, people, who are also the moving objects in picture, echo the freedom with flag somehow. "Lane with Poplar Trees": Again, "Lane with Poplar Trees" is other picture without many colors - drab grays, browns, and a splash of black, which seems to tell a sad story. The tall straight wispy trees seem to look forward growing up but all leaves are fallen off; the road extends within no end. There is only one person standing alone in the road, with his fallen shoulder and expressionless face, who seems is hopeless and homeless. All in all, trees with no leaves and the lonly person in picture hold a sad harmony with loneliness.
2. "Royal Media" Denotative: A lifting jack is holding a huge LEGO toy brick, with a conspicuous red logo of LEGO on it. Connotative: LEGO brick is the best in the world. The quality of LEGO can be showed in public.
3. Icon

The lego of APPLE is familiar to most of people. Instead of the simple denotative meaning - a bite of an apple, it represents a implicit but universal conecpt that all technology has its shortcomings, and we need to learn to develop in order to approach perfection. The value of this picture encourages that "never stop correcting disadvantages as well as pursuing perfection".