ART 21 Response

Cao Fei

Video link: https://art21.org/watch/extended-play/cao-fei-building-rmb-city-short/

Her work blends social commentary, pop aesthetics, references to surrealism and documentary filmmaking to reflect the changing nature of contemporary Chinese society.

Artist Work:

The contrast between light and dark is nicely accentuated. And the combination of colors with little difference in saturation makes the overall palette very harmonious and well-integrated, without the colors being different enough to make them feel abrupt.

Clever white space can better highlight the subject. I also see a contrast between the distance of the advertising words and the distance between the couple, which I like to think of as an allusion to the relationship between a man and a woman. Using slashes to create a kind of, irregular but also regular.

This photo has the element of lines, but it belongs to asymmetry.