Art & Society Fall 2015

On a website called Flicker, I came across of a photograph of 3 scraps of wood on Troutman Street, Brooklyn, NY. In the photograph, these scraps of wood are put aside the street, next to the fire hydrant. The photograph has horizontal, diagonal, and vertical lines. It also forms the shape of a square and a triangle. The photographer took this picture to show the position of the wood, but the picture had some negative space. The two pieces of wood on the left are overlapping each other. The value of the wood were light brown to dark brown. By looking at the picture and from past experience, the texture is rough. The scraps of wood are placed outside next to an automobile, a streetlight, and the fire hydrant. The photographer decided to take this picture in this position to be creative. How come they are not flat on the ground? This picture seemed strange to me because it is one of the common sights we see around our neighborhood and at the same time shows an interesting position. This photograph was taken on January 24, 2015. According to the philosopher Bell, this picture has significant form. The way the lines are created, it gives a certain emotion. Bell believes that an art form has significant form when the colors and the lines gives aesthetic emotion.