Art Ideas for Inspiration: Abstracting a Image

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"Another you know, way to approach all of this is again you know focusing on what, on what the image means. What the essence of the image is and then trying to tease out what is the least amount of information that will tell you all about it. And here are two examples of posters, this one is for water and it kind of makes sense. It's horizontal, horizontals are calm so that makes you think about water. The blue obviously is, is connected with water. This although it has you know these swaying lines it does not look like water because it isn't blue. So you know this isn't, is probably one of the simplest renderings that suggests water that is possible for a person to come up with. Of course it helps if you have water on the bottom because it just gives you a clue but nonetheless you would never think that this pictures about water. This picture on the other hand is about energy which suggests heat because all of our energy sources are basically about combustion something, burning something and so the artist here chose the oranges and reds of burning. And the sort of the upward motion of flames and that was their visual resolution for getting this idea across without actually you know taking a photograph of a fire or something and adding it to their, to their image."