Wiley Holton, Rule of Thirds
Rule of Thirds
Acrylic and graphite on wood
36 x 48 x 3 inches
Website: www.wileyholton.com
Instagram: @artbywileyholton
About | Wiley Holton's kaleidoscope paintings articulate the chaos and anxiety and depression that stem from her ADHD and, in depicting how her brain feels and functions, challenge the misconceptions and generalizations that people attach to this neurological disorder and mental illnesses in general. She explores the impact on her representation of chaos by intentionally breaking this geometric pattern by randomly placing and starting new centers of the kaleidoscope. She wants to provoke the viewer to question what they are seeing and not seeing amongst the smudged chaos. By playing with the contrast between the background and the lines themselves, she is demonstrating a complexity of vision, emotion, and experience. She also explores the impact of art as a form of therapy.
The Rule of Thirds states that if you divide your composition into thirds, either vertically or horizontally, and then place focal areas of your landscape/still-life/portrait at the meeting points of them, you will get a more dynamic and pleasing layout for your compositions. What happens when we use this rule in abstract art?
$6,000