Observations of the Color Gallery: The Artwork of Nick Cave and Beverly Buchanan

Unity is an ordering of all elements in a work of art or literature so that each contributes to a unified effect. I observed unity in the artwork by Nick Cave and Beverly Buchanan. Nick Cave uses unity by using found materials and using large circular canvases showing an example of all humans in a circle together. Beverly Buchanan displays unity in imperfection of her shacks since we are all imperfect. Unity is finding the similarities, even in our differences. I believe that the small details of each piece are what display the 'big picture' of the message each piece is displaying. Each artist's details are very disparate, but they show a similar overall message.

Nick Cave uses found objects such as recycled pieces of garments, and many different fabrics and colors. Some of his materials consist of wool, sequins, leather, cotton twill, jersey knit, beads, and corduroy. In his piece Plot, He also uses very diverse patterns, but they all remain consistent in the fact that they are all flowers. Some of the flowers are so abstract; it is hard to actually believe that is a flower at all. Although, the piece is very diverse, I noticed that the flowers that were alike were together. The black and white flowers were not scattered about with the red. They all stayed in their own section with those similar to them. Another significant point about both of his works is that they are on huge round canvases. Even with Galaxy the different sparkles remained with other sparkles similar to each other.