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Dhruv Tomar Tomar Gaby Naus Visual Art A4 26 January 2022 Contemporary Art Formal analysis By: Dhruv Tomar I will be talking about the Indian artist Sunil Gawde. While his art is not necessarily paintings he ensures that his physical aspect of the art matches the landscape that it is put in. When these two factors are contributed to each other they make a very beautiful art piece as a whole. Let us first talk about who SUnil Gawde is as a person and what his background and art is. Born in 1960, Sunil Gawde graduated from the J.J. School of Art in 1980. Despite his art education, Gawde chose to take a job at the Bombay Port Trust, where he worked until 1995. Through his dedication at the Port Trust, he remained alive to his surroundings, incorporating Bombay's dockyards and waves into his paintings. "That is the logic of my paintings," said Gawde, "to strip the overlaps partially, so that earlier histories may be revealed. "Gawde's working methods share as much with craft as with the fine arts. When applying paint, he uses the trowels and scrapers used by masons and house-painters. Gawde received a Charles Wallace scholarship to study in Glasgow, Scotland. The chance to spend a year exclusively painting brought a spirit of contemplation to Gawde's work, while his increased productivity gave rise to shows in London's ARKS Gallery and at the Mackintosh Museum in Glasgow. That is some information about the artist that we will approach today. The art piece that I will be analyzing is the “After Vincent” now before we start analyzing this art piece we need to tell you that this piece isn’t very profound in the art community. This piece is truly the most unique piece I have ever seen and admired in my entire life. I have enjoyed mechanical engineering for such a long time but I never imagined this piece to contain this sort of aspect into it. If you take a look at this art piece and focus you can see that all the moon-like shapes that are described into the piece are moving and changing shape. It is powered by one large dc motor that is connected to the moon shapes. They are all connected to each other using some sorts of gears that are interchanged to each other. Now to analyze each sort of piece we need to focus on the piece while it is not in action. What I mean Dhruv Tomar Tomar Gaby Naus Visual Art A4 26 January 2022 by this is that we need to make sure that this piece has no sort of motion to it. We need to analyze it just as a picture with multiple moons that line up in the sky as if taken straight out of Star Wars. The first thing that we will talk about is the art elements. The two art elements that I found in this piece are space and volume. I chose these art elements because they are very important to identify and let alone the most important and simple things to identify in the piece. First we have a shape which is very important since there are many shapes in this piece. There are the following shapes in the shape Ellipse, Circle, Half-Circle, Quarter circle, and waning crescent. Something important to notice is that all these shapes are never present at the same time, there might be one, two, or even 3 but all of these shapes are never present at the same time. He also makes good use of shape since he has 9 shapes in the picture as well as some minor moving piece that depict stars (5 total) so when counting every moving piece there are a total of 14 but he marks sure that there is not an overflow of shapes in the painting at any point of time. He also made use of the rest of the painting since he put sparkling stars in the rest of the shape to make use of the rest of the painting so he makes sure there is not too less in the painting. The next thing that we need to address is the amount of amazing value that is used in this painting. There are many sorts of white colors in this painting (black is not prominent in this painting since it is just the space portion of the painting.) such as the stars and the moons. He makes good use of value in the stars specifically. The stars are actually just leds that fade in light. This is ingenious coming from an aspiring engineer. Leds are electronic components that make a certain color appear in the led. So changing the brightness of the led makes it look like the painting is changing in value which is very important to the piece. To finish this paragraph it is truly amazing how much engineers can change the art industry. As an artist and an aspiring engineer I am really excited to see what people have in store for this momentous change that will affect the art industry forever. Next thing that we need to address in this aspect are the principles of designs that occur in this painting. First thing is movement. Movement is very important in this picture since the artist doesn't have to make his paint look like it is moving since it is already moving in the frame. Something cool to understand is that the moons that are smaller move a lot quicker than the ones that are bigger. Which makes it really well time managed because there is always something to look at in the frame. Whether you look at the moons or the stars you always find something to look at and admire. We also need to address Unity and how well the pictures correspond with itself. It makes us really enjoy this piece. Our eyes are drawn to the biggest moon, which is the slowest to Dhruv Tomar Tomar Gaby Naus Visual Art A4 26 January 2022 change. This is because of its place in the picture, the left side middle. This makes it a lot easier for the viewer to understand that this is the main idea since if you look to the right you can see that there are more than one moons which aren't enough to focus on because it's too much to view. To sum up this paragraph the artist definitely makes good use of the moons in the piece because it helps us realize the center of attention. The last thing that we will talk about is the mechanism in the painting. This might not relate to the painting but it helps us understand more about it. This painting is very interesting because when the moon phase covers the circle with its illuminating white presence the black is guaranteed to come out of somewhere else in the picture. Which is a really important and cool thing to observe in the picture. We can also talk about how much space this possibly takes in a frame. Is it possible to fit this in a room? Is it possible to put it on the wall? It is possible to fit this picture on a wall but it will be hard since the painting weighs a lot. There is not much to say about this, the gears are connected to each other with a mechanical belt and the belt is connected to a small motor that powers the entire painting's movement. To summarize this painting in one phrase we can say. This painting helps people understand art more, people are able to enjoy this painting like most people enjoy music. They will be curious about the origin and the backstory of this painting. Unfortunately the artist is not very popular in the artist community with no wikipedia and a measly 9 subscribers on youtube. However this must be expected from a new movement taken in the art community. Sources Cited Fig 1: “Sunil Gawde After Vincent Google Arts & Culture.” Google, Google, https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/Sunil-Gawde/lAGE-SJvVcF7Lg. “Gawde - After Vincent- Sunil Gawde.” USEUM, https://useum.org/artwork/Vanitas-Still-Life-Pieter-Claesz-1625. Sunil Gawde, http://www.sunilgawde.com/. Dhruv Tomar Gaby Naus Visual Art A4 26 January 2022 “Sunil Gawde.” Saffronart, https://www.saffronart.com/artists/sunil-gawde. Tomar