Noma Bar

The simplicity of Noma Bar's work is what first catches my eye. There's no scratchy lines or minute detail, just simple solid shapes. The use of colour in the elephant and mouse illustration is bright and perhaps garish, yet it doesn't look too heavy on the piece as the simple shapes tone the colour down. Bar cleverly uses negative space in his pieces. It's easy to forget about negative space around an image but Bar uses this space to his advantage, creating a mouse in the crook of the elephants trunk and a face between each cup and its handle. I love the basic block approach to colour, rather than using different tones of the same colour. These pieces could be made using a basic collage approach and perhaps even Bar did this in the planning stages to his work. The fact that these childlike, basic shapes convey a message is very clever and makes Bar's work unique and thought provoking. This shows that an image doesn't need to be detailed or full to have a big visual or literal impact. In the case of Noma Bar, less is definitely more.