As an artist, I've always been endlessly fascinated with what I like to call "Instant Art" -- images inherently, compellingly artful, created entirely without either the hand or even the intent of any one, self-proclaimed "artist."
The only real artist responsible for such images is could fairly be identified as Mother Nature -- an every-day, Blue Collar human, or group of humans, going about the essential business of maintaining, repairing, and improving the environment in their communities.
Ironically, these unpretentious, real-life images can come across immediately, to a passerby, as "artworks" worthy of exhibit in a sophisticated art gallery or museum. I'm proudly, happily one of those passersby, always on the hunt for examples of Instant Art, wherever I go. And sometimes I've even borrowed directly from what I've seen, turning it into an exhibit-able, sale-able artwork of my own.
--- Ross Alan Bachelder, www.artsaplenty.ME, April 13, 2023
But WAIT! Guess I'm not quite finished with my exploration: Visually speaking, the image just happens to be classically composed.
The eye is forced to follow the blue stripe upstage on the right; cross a short distance from stage left to stage right, then travel downstage on the left side of the image, where a portion of the yellow area in the southwest corner curves into the metal, pale tan panel, and PRESTO! Back goes your eye -- no real choice in the matter -- up northeast via the panel, then upstage (blue) again on the right, across to left, and down again on the left -- all in a perpetual, artfully constructed path that brings a kind of joyful inevitability to the image.
Same with countless artworks over the centuries, designed by the artist to direct the viewer's eye along a carefully conceived path to absorption. Ol' Mother Nature is one hell of an artist, isn't she! Note, also, that the yellow path in the center grows steadily wider as it approaches the downstage area of the image, reinforcing the blue-to-yellow perspective.
-- RB, 4/13/23