Title: Two Sides, A Hand in Health, and The City Within Me
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
Size: 91.44 cm x 30.48 cm (each canvas)
April 2016
Exhibition Text: My Artist panel is the way I see my work (sometimes happy and sometimes sad). My Artist in the City panel is how I want to contribute to my city, and my City in the Artist panel is how the city affects me. My art was inspired by the works of Edvard Munch, Leonardo da Vinci, and René Magritte.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
Size: 91.44 cm x 30.48 cm (each canvas)
April 2016
Exhibition Text: My Artist panel is the way I see my work (sometimes happy and sometimes sad). My Artist in the City panel is how I want to contribute to my city, and my City in the Artist panel is how the city affects me. My art was inspired by the works of Edvard Munch, Leonardo da Vinci, and René Magritte.
Artistic Inspiration:
For my artistic inspiration, I was inspired by the works of Edvard Munch, René Magritte, and Leonardo da Vinci. Edvard Munch's work tries to express the human emotions of sadness, grief, love, death, and other emotions. My first panel was inspired by his piece Couple on the Shore (from the Reinhardt Frieze). There are multiple colors used in his piece, and it includes people with no distinct facial features.
My second panel was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings. His sketches were considered very accurate drawings of the human body, for much detail was included in his drawings. He used shading to highlight certain features in the drawings, making it look more realistic.
My third panel was inspired by René Magritte's The False Mirror.
My second panel was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings. His sketches were considered very accurate drawings of the human body, for much detail was included in his drawings. He used shading to highlight certain features in the drawings, making it look more realistic.
My third panel was inspired by René Magritte's The False Mirror.
"Couple on the Shore (from the Reinhardt Frieze) — Edvard Munch." Couple on the Shore (from the Reinhardt Frieze). Web. 11 Mar. 2016.
<http://allpainters.org/paintings/couple-on-the-shore-from-the-reinhardt-frieze-1907-edvard-munch.html> |
Gayle, Damien. "Scans That Prove Leonardo Da Vinci Was Right All Along: New Show Reveals 'startling Accuracy' of Anatomical Sketches Which Lay Undiscovered for Hundreds of Years." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 2013. Web. 26 Apr. 2016.
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2292206/The-startling-accuracy-Leonardo-da-Vincis-anatomical-sketches-revealed-comparison-modern-medical-scans.html>. |
René Magritte, "The False Mirror" 1928, Oil on Canvas. 54 x 80.9 cm. Web. 7 Apr. 2016
<http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78938?locale=en>. |
Cultural Inspiration:
For cultural inspiration, I was inspired by my environment and by my city. I used my home environment as inspiration for my Artist panel and my Artist in the City panel, and I used the city of Milwaukee as inspiration for my City in the Artist panel.
Process:
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1.) I began by first stretching my three canvases and having them gessoed.
2.) After my canvases had dried, I began painting my background colors for each panel. I wasn't sure what to do with my third panel, so I experimented with different colors and chose one that looked nice. 3.) After having all of my canvases painted, I started to sketch on my first panel (City in the Artist), and paint. 4.) While being almost half way done with my first panel, I didn't like what I was doing, so I started over again. 5.) I decided to paint a myself with no facial features except for eyes, and the background was a mix of different blues and greys/black. 6.) Once I was finished with that panel, I moved on to my next panel. I first sketched the arm, then painted it with different shades of red, some yellow, blue, and white. 7.) Finally I moved on to my last panel. I sketched the eye, then I decided to paint it using oil paint instead of acrylic. I used blue. violet, black, yellow, brown, and red. Only the red was acrylic. |
Sketches:
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For my sketches, I did between four to six of them. However, in my final pieces, I didn't necessarily use those sketches in my panels except for one. I did use some components from my sketches in my final pieces. |
Meaning Behind My Piece:
The meaning behind my Artist panel, is that it represents how my artwork may be. Sometimes it's happy in a sense, but sometimes it can sort of look gloomy. The meaning behind my Artist in the City panel is that it's suppose to represent how I contribute to my community in the future. I want to work in the medical field after graduating from college, and I would like to work in the city of Milwaukee, or just Wisconsin in general. My last panel, Artist in the City, is suppose to represent how the city affects me. I drew the city with buildings that were distorted and in the night, for in the night I see the city differently than I do in the day. The city feels more dark and dangerous to me in the night than in the day.
Reflection:
After completing the project, I looked back on the challenges and successes I had while creating the pieces. While the challenges out weigh the successes, I felt that I had accomplished what I wanted to do. My main challenges and successes are listed below. Minor challenges included not having enough white paint left, and oil paints going on my hands. One minor success included liking what I did after I finished.
Challenges:
Challenges:
- Procrastination
- Coming up with ideas to late in the project
- Getting the right blend of color I wanted
- Completing the project
- Getting the mix of certain paint colors right