Waving Frontal System By Shona Macdonald
Waving Frontal System Analysis Rough Draft Waving Frontal System is an art piece located in Spartanburg, South Carolina at Spartanburg Art Gallery. This piece of art was created by Shona Macdonald in 2014, which appears to be around 66 x 90" dimension wise and is constructed with recycled envelopes, archival glue and ink. She has been practicing this type of art since 1998 and has been a decade since her last created ‘envelope innards’ artwork. Using simple techniques Shona Macdonald has created an incredibly attractive piece with only one type of material to work with. This abstract piece uses the inside of envelopes as its primary colors giving it soft and bright colors with many patterns thrown into the appearance. This formal analysis
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To truly understand this piece, the viewer must know what a waving frontal system is. In weather terms, a ‘waving frontal system’ is a stationary cloud bombarded by wind in multiple directions in rudimentary terms. When wind hits with stationary cloud, it ripples the surface of the cloud giving it a “ocean wave” appearance. This is represented in Waving Frontal System by the waved embedded into its free form design. These wavy lines express the feeling of movement. The viewer should see these comparable to the way in which ocean moves (if the viewer does not catch the attachment to the weather), providing a calming and giving a sense of life to the piece of art. These same lines are horizontal at the same time. These horizontal lines convey a sense of calmness, which when combined with the waves create a very pleasing sight to gaze at. Shona Macdonald combines 4 main colors into this piece: orange, yellow, green and blue. There are some secondary colors such as red, but they are scarce in this piece of art. Shona Macdonald uses the concept of Analogous Color. While orange is on the opposite side of the Spector of blue, it still mellows out by being near yellow, and then yellow by green and blue. She uses colors that are similar in wavelength to make the piece easy to look at. Analogous Colors create unity and harmony in art that avoid rousing up certain emotions. By using each of these techniques, Shona is subtly changing the way the viewers feel emotion towards the piece by hinting at calmness in many different
To truly understand this piece, the viewer must know what a waving frontal system is. In weather terms, a ‘waving frontal system’ is a stationary cloud bombarded by wind in multiple directions in rudimentary terms. When wind hits with stationary cloud, it ripples the surface of the cloud giving it a “ocean wave” appearance. This is represented in Waving Frontal System by the waved embedded into its free form design. These wavy lines express the feeling of movement. The viewer should see these comparable to the way in which ocean moves (if the viewer does not catch the attachment to the weather), providing a calming and giving a sense of life to the piece of art. These same lines are horizontal at the same time. These horizontal lines convey a sense of calmness, which when combined with the waves create a very pleasing sight to gaze at. Shona Macdonald combines 4 main colors into this piece: orange, yellow, green and blue. There are some secondary colors such as red, but they are scarce in this piece of art. Shona Macdonald uses the concept of Analogous Color. While orange is on the opposite side of the Spector of blue, it still mellows out by being near yellow, and then yellow by green and blue. She uses colors that are similar in wavelength to make the piece easy to look at. Analogous Colors create unity and harmony in art that avoid rousing up certain emotions. By using each of these techniques, Shona is subtly changing the way the viewers feel emotion towards the piece by hinting at calmness in many different