Image Essay #2

This digital painting is entitled World Museum and it was made by Gary Tonge (handle: Antifan-Real), an artist that I watch pretty closely on deviantART because I really like the style with which he makes his works. This was a painting he did in only an hour, which is pretty fast because most of his more complicated works are done in 20 hours on average. Anyway, I like this picture because of the rough sketchy nature of the painting and I like how well it expresses dominance. The enormous red globe is obviously the dominant structure with the background windows as subordinate structures and the people in the middle ground as the accentual structures. Also I like the extreme highlights which give it a high contrast feel and add to the definition of the overall piece. I chose this work over some of his others because I thought it was a pretty basic example of dominance.