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MJENNIComment by Dibutil: There is no bad without good... I have lost the comment I typed in for this Critique submission and have to restore it again. But now my thoughts are better formulated.
I gave this image +7 and very surprized by the overall position it got :-(
I think the author put much more subconscious artistism in this image than many people have realized.
First, the color contrast is amazing: if you negative the image the sculpture will become violet and the background - cyan. Nice complementing colors make perfectly matching antagonists when negated.
Second - the composition is very interesting. The sculpture is cropped around and does not represent point of interest by itself. In we see the background as symbolic rising sun - the figurine fills the symbol with context and does not need to be represented as a whole.
Third - the overburned hilites of the sciplture create several interesting effects. They do not accentuate the relief but look as if the sun is burning through. Also, being not bound to the characteristic shapes of the scuplture they look exactly like "painted with light"! Nice match to the challenge.
And the last but not least - the title is very good: symbolic and meaningful.
The criticism I will leave to those who dumped this picture to the 88th place...
Great work, Mark! Keep it up!
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