Art Critique
Villeta, Sheena C. Professor Hernandez FSARTH1 19 August, 2013 Art Critique
Title: Glance Left and Right Artist: Pattara Chanruechachai Medium: Photograph Print on Newspaper Dimensions: 250 x 250 Date: 2013 Description: Chanruechachai creates a work that analyzes and criticizes the current urban condition where deterioration and regeneration of urban sprawl take place. He prints the images of deserted buildings found in the suburbs and pastes them onto newspapers that have articles on the economic crash from Thailand and Europe as his canvas. The taken photo shows a disproportional weighed view which gives the viewer a distorted and chaotic feel. It has several low hanging wires across the canvas bringing out a very heavy and dramatic environment. I can see that the newspaper created an impression of acting as the building’s wall, which I interpret as showing a very destructed and wasted building. The photo is somewhat monochromatic as it tends to capture more on the moment than the scene. It tends to let the people seeing the photo feel the deep drama of the image. Every line and details the photo suggests are all very defined and bold; thus the photo is most probably shot in a high exposure setting. Analysis As I view this piece, my eyes are occasionally led very straight as the perspective of Chanruechachai is right in the middle, trying to take the photo from the lower part of
the building aiming his lens all the way upward to emphasize the subject’s height. The black tint of all the shadow and dark hues (almost all the details) are very intense and bright (highly saturated). I think this is a good camera setting to portray the story they are trying to foretell basing on their overall theme. His idea of the newspaper is as brilliant as his setting too. But I think the artwork would be at its best when the depth of the image’s hue was represented by the article’s ink. If he made the texts and figures readable, but at the same time, would not ruin the
Title: Glance Left and Right Artist: Pattara Chanruechachai Medium: Photograph Print on Newspaper Dimensions: 250 x 250 Date: 2013 Description: Chanruechachai creates a work that analyzes and criticizes the current urban condition where deterioration and regeneration of urban sprawl take place. He prints the images of deserted buildings found in the suburbs and pastes them onto newspapers that have articles on the economic crash from Thailand and Europe as his canvas. The taken photo shows a disproportional weighed view which gives the viewer a distorted and chaotic feel. It has several low hanging wires across the canvas bringing out a very heavy and dramatic environment. I can see that the newspaper created an impression of acting as the building’s wall, which I interpret as showing a very destructed and wasted building. The photo is somewhat monochromatic as it tends to capture more on the moment than the scene. It tends to let the people seeing the photo feel the deep drama of the image. Every line and details the photo suggests are all very defined and bold; thus the photo is most probably shot in a high exposure setting. Analysis As I view this piece, my eyes are occasionally led very straight as the perspective of Chanruechachai is right in the middle, trying to take the photo from the lower part of
the building aiming his lens all the way upward to emphasize the subject’s height. The black tint of all the shadow and dark hues (almost all the details) are very intense and bright (highly saturated). I think this is a good camera setting to portray the story they are trying to foretell basing on their overall theme. His idea of the newspaper is as brilliant as his setting too. But I think the artwork would be at its best when the depth of the image’s hue was represented by the article’s ink. If he made the texts and figures readable, but at the same time, would not ruin the