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Abstract Cities

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This is one of the final tasks in part 3 before the assignment, its all about using colour to create a series of abstract designs that represent cities. The challenge was to balance dominant and subordinate colours and deciding the positioning of the blocks as well as colours used. Before I went into this I browsed other peoples take on this exercise and see the angle they took, the vast majority chose to take images of the city and create abstract remakes of that image. Now whilst these are all good ideas and they turned out well I wanted to steer away from that as often there is a lot of dead space in these images such as sky, fields and beaches and are just one colour. I rather liked the piece by Ben Nicholson and loved the style and how all the colours interacted with each other.  My idea was to take elements of the city and represent them with a block of colour, they could be literal like the colour of the flag or symbolic like using a block of gold to represent old bui