A response to "The Walking Man" by William Kentridge

The artwork entitled The Walking Man as a visual piece is very pleasing to the eye because of the balance of lines in the piece the flow in the background of the piece. The direction of the piece is in consistent in the way the sky and the ground are created and through that technique it leaves the audience to pay more attention to the actual man rather than the object behind him. With the actual image of the man the artist pays less detail to the clothes that the man is wearing and a great deal of attention to the trees that is growing from the man’s head. The detail of the tree stands out from the rest of the piece in the flow of the leaves and how collectively the work so well to the image of the tree. Within the context of the piece from the imagery it leave me to imagine struggle and confusion on the mind of men. This comes from the tree coming out of the head the complexity of the tree cause the mind to wonder how many ways thought can go. The tree for me signifies the complex thought and confusion in the everyday notion of walking through the world. The picture as a whole as the man walks through the land the insignificance of the other object cause me to think of the way that people are so concerned with their everyday struggles rather than things in life. Another aspect that is comes from the geometric lines of the background the idea of nature and natural creation while the solid black of the figure establishes durable man-made things. The fact that the man is both a man and a tree represents the unity of man and nature. The man comes from nature and nature in developed more through the help of man. The man walking through the world gives off the image that complex thinking in such a simple environment while the incorporation of the two leave the mind to wonder how the two element need each other so much, world made the man and the man maintains the world.