This is an excellent piece for a design study!
“Bon Voyage” is a homage to Laika, a stray dog and one of the first animals in space. Her launch was always to end in tragedy, as she was an experiment during Russia’s studies on the biological effects of spaceflight. Within hours of being launched into space, Laika died of overheating.
This piece seems to depict Laika as a falling star making its way back to Earth. She is clearly the focal point here, partly because she is a living thing. As human beings we are drawn to faces and things that resemble faces.
The fireball around Laika helps establish her as the focal point. The streak shoots down in a straight line (red) but is softened by the blurring of its colors (green). The blur gives the sense of intensity and heat as well as silence—we are so captivated by the living meteor falling to Earth. Laika herself is drawn in a way that subtly adds to being the one living thing in this piece (blue).
The colors of the fireball utilize lighting, realism, and a sense of wonder. The warm colors of yellow and red show life, as do the way the rest of the colors are used. It has the colors of fire too. Red, yellow, blue, white.
The stars and planets and cosmos of the background are far away, enhancing focus on Laika, but are complementary too by having a similar color palette. They are mostly round and soft, contrasting Laika’s straight line. Finally, Earth serves as a buffer to keep the viewer from wandering out of the piece (white line). Its atmosphere provides color composition, and its wavy clouds and oceans show it as a place containing life along with our subject—Laika is finally coming home.
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