The name of my graphic is lockdown dissent by Eric Drooker. The medium of the piece of art is a computer graphic. The subject matter of the graphic is censorship, this represents censorship to me because in the graphic the man is holding a pencil which represents freedom of speech and by the man being locked in a cell it shows that the government can control what they want. The allusion of the piece is great because you really have to think in a certain way to see the censorship side of the graphic.
In this piece there are 2 major points. One of these points is chiaroscuro; this is represented by the cell because it is dark and dreary. By making the piece dark it gives it an effect of a bad place where you do not want to be. The second major point of the piece is the focal point; the focal point of the graphic is the hands on the bars holding the pencil. This is the focal point because it give the graphic its meaning of censorship without the pencil in the hand it would just be a man in prison but the pencil is meant to represent freedom of speech, and within the cell he has no way of expressing this freedom.
The story I see within the piece is that the man was trying to express his freedoms and he is locked up for doing so. The graphic shows that the government can control all aspects of what they want to get out to the public from writing to music, it is all in their hands. This is shown by the man locking the cell with the keys it gives us an idea of the government and the power they have to do such things even though we have commandments stating we have freedom of speech. There is only one thing that makes the graphic weak to me and that is that you have to really search for the meaning of the piece because there is not very much going on at first glance.
In this piece there are 2 major points. One of these points is chiaroscuro; this is represented by the cell because it is dark and dreary. By making the piece dark it gives it an effect of a bad place where you do not want to be. The second major point of the piece is the focal point; the focal point of the graphic is the hands on the bars holding the pencil. This is the focal point because it give the graphic its meaning of censorship without the pencil in the hand it would just be a man in prison but the pencil is meant to represent freedom of speech, and within the cell he has no way of expressing this freedom.
The story I see within the piece is that the man was trying to express his freedoms and he is locked up for doing so. The graphic shows that the government can control all aspects of what they want to get out to the public from writing to music, it is all in their hands. This is shown by the man locking the cell with the keys it gives us an idea of the government and the power they have to do such things even though we have commandments stating we have freedom of speech. There is only one thing that makes the graphic weak to me and that is that you have to really search for the meaning of the piece because there is not very much going on at first glance.
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