Throughout time artists use their images to
develop or portray an important message without
having to use words. Artists use visual elements such as
color, proportion, balance, space, shadows or texture to help
us understand the messages their images withhold. A famous
imagine of “Rosa Parks” illustrates one of the most
important times marked in history when Rosa parks refused
to give up her seat in the bus to a white male. The hidden
message the artist is trying to portray is that no gender is
better than the other and that everyone is equal no matter
their race, skin color, ethnicity or culture.
As stated above color plays a huge role in how an
artists may try to illustrate a point of view or a main idea.
for example , cool or warm colors represent positive moods,
joyful or happy moments. In the picture of Rosa parks we
see black and white being contrasted or the opacity
lowered to create or give more importance to a certain point
in the picture. For example, in the image we see that Rosa’s
skin color is contrasted and the white male’s color is not
contrasted because the artist still has to illustrate the fact that
she is black and that the male was white. The artist tries to
illustrate that at the time she was forced to give her seat to
any white person that wanted it and she belonged to the back
of the bus like any other black person.
Artists also use “space” to illustrate any hidden
message. In the image of Rosa park’s famous moment in
history we see that there is a lot of space and that no other
people were shown in the image and that a lot of the seats
were empty. This just shows that in that time white people
had more supremacy and they were more important. The
space shows us that it wasn’t necessary for Rosa park to give
up her seat as there was so much space and other seats to be
seated at. The space in the back seats also demonstrate that
she could’ve been seated in the back of the bus because it
wasn’t necessary to seat in the front but the author is trying
to portray an act of rebelión and that she is trying to prove a
point even if that meant going to jail.
The Proportion and scale of the image shows their body
expresións and what they are feeling at the moment. Their
face is gonna show what the whole body is feeling and the
face will portray the movement of the body or how the body
would be positioned. For example in the Rosa park image
see that both Rosa and the white male have a frown on their
faces and than both bodies are positioned to express what
their face is trying to say. Rosa’s face shows patience and her
body language is expressing that she is waiting for
something to happen so the author is showing that Rosa
knows what will happen next due to the action she decided
to make. Anyhow the white males face shows that he
thinking or doubting. He is asking himself why “the black”
female didn’t access to give him the seat if she knew what
would happen if she didn’t. The artist also put their faces to
look away from each other showing that they have an
opposition and that they are enemies or on different sides of
the right.
Balance helps emphasize the main ideas because
balance shows mood and stability. Once again in the Rosa
park image we see that there is a lot of balance. Theirs no
sign of movement or instability. We see that everyone is
calm and no one is trying to move or do anything out of
place. This portrays the fact that Rosa got her point across
patiently and without and violence. She just sat there and
waited for something to happen.
The texture of the famous image of Rosa park does
not show a smooth surface or any smooth objects. This
shows that the time was really hard and that it isn’t a
sensitive topic. They way the white male is dress shoes a
more delicate texture like he has money and the way Rosa is
dress shoes she is humble a dress more basically and more
comfortably. We don’t see any soft textures in the chairs or
any object on the bus.
In art lines are used to indicate emotions, shapes and
motion. The way the artist uses lines in this image is to show
the structure of the bus, the seats and their faces. We see that
the bus has a wide space and the seats are empty. Some of
the seats have double space and can sit two people. We see
that where Rosa is seated another person fits but the white
male is placed in the back of her and not next to her. This
emphasized the idea that back then black and white were “
separate but equal” and the whole idea of segregation.
In conclusion, illustration is algo a great way to show
or emphasize a main idea. Artists have a lot of creative ways
to help people visualize their point of view and the
problem or solution is in an image. They use things such as
color, texture, shape and balance to emphasize important
points in their artwork. They’re is a lot digging to do but if
you pay close attention everything is in the details and the
way everything is positioned. Furthermore the main idea or
point of view the artist was trying to demonstrate in the
famous picture of “Rosa park” is that no matter your race
everyone is equal and we shouldn’t be scared to get our
point across.