Week 14 - Representational, Abstract and Symbolic

Representational

This is a representational drawing of a biplane.  It is a detailed drawing depicting the biplane as a three dimensional object in space.  It is drawn in proportionately and accurately.  The image feels flat as if it were traced from a photograph. Even though the lines of the wings dynamically cut diagonally across the page the lack of a back ground, the lack of lines indicating movement and the static propeller hold the image to the representational form.

Abstract

This abstraction of a plane shows us the essential parts of a plane, the cockpit, the tail, and the wing, though it looks nothing like a real plane there is enough information to decipher its purpose.  There are stick-people with in the plane smiling happily as it flys along in the puffy white clouds of the sky.  A story is imagined out of the image.  The colors are bright and vibrant happy colors.  The image is drawn in the style of a child calling up the emotions of being a kid and playing with colors and drawing for fun.

Symbolic

The Expedia logo has a purely symbolic image of a plane in a shaded blue orb.  The icon lays diagonally across the orb implying movement as if showing the plane flys around the world.  As negative space the graphic symbol bounces back and for between the foreground and background which I think adds to the idea of movement in the symbol.  Expedia plays on the word expedite - to make and action to be accomplished more quickly - again compounding the idea of fast travel and movement.