"Room"
Exhibition Text
''Room"
Acrylic on Canvas
24In x 12In
September 1th, 2017
This Painting was inspired and created by the surrealist movement and the central idea came from Salvador Dali and Ed Ruscha and his piece "Four Armchairs in the Sky", and his painting of himself helped me create my piece titled "Room." This piece was made to reflect how most of my life I have spend it at a desk within a room. just as all of what's on my mind is what is laid on my desk. Class assignments, letters, notes, homework, and college admissions, all of these are placed on my desk to test me to see if I'm ready for the next level of work and responsibility that is given with each task on my desk. the main goal of this piece was to portray what goes on in my mind and what is constantly pushing me to go forward and succeed.
Acrylic on Canvas
24In x 12In
September 1th, 2017
This Painting was inspired and created by the surrealist movement and the central idea came from Salvador Dali and Ed Ruscha and his piece "Four Armchairs in the Sky", and his painting of himself helped me create my piece titled "Room." This piece was made to reflect how most of my life I have spend it at a desk within a room. just as all of what's on my mind is what is laid on my desk. Class assignments, letters, notes, homework, and college admissions, all of these are placed on my desk to test me to see if I'm ready for the next level of work and responsibility that is given with each task on my desk. the main goal of this piece was to portray what goes on in my mind and what is constantly pushing me to go forward and succeed.
Artist Inspiration
The piece "Four Armchairs In The Sky" inspired this piece "Room" because of how I could connect a conceptual meaning with my piece with the same concept of art as Dali's piece "Four Armchairs In The Sky." I used Dali's Piece to convey a meaning through the idea in his piece to connect it with a topic relevant through out my life involving furniture. I also use Dali's piece to depict how furniture is used within all of our lives and we use them for their convenience and usefulness of being confrontable. That's their purpose and that's what I am describing in my piece through the help of my artist inspiration. Dali's piece inspired the way I would present my meaning of this piece by having the furniture that had importance and relevance to me in which desk and have them floating in the sky but to make it more realistic and more dream like I put my furniture on clouds to represent a pleasant view of relaxation. Also my blue sky in my piece "Room" was inspired by Dali's piece "Four Armchairs In The Sky" with his blending technique and use of colors and highlights to add depth to his background and so I used the same technique with my background but giving it sky like elements and features instead. My piece was also inspired by Ed Ruscha's piece "Standard Station" with his meaning on an ordinary everyday object everyone uses being captured and given a more significant meaning through his art. This meaning inspired me to fully go through with my idea of my piece "Room" due to how I wanted to also capture the significance of a everyday furniture being a desk that plays more important role then one would realize. Ed Ruscha's piece "Standard Station" also inspired my blending with all my lighting with the desk with his blending of his sky in the background of his piece. His use of the color slowly fading into the next with minimal transition and more of a sharp transition inspired me to do the same with how the light hit all of the desks in my piece.
Planning
Brainstorming/Planning Sketches
Brainstorming/Planning Sketches
I plan on using furniture in my piece desks and chairs to depict my meaning within my piece.
Painting Process
When making this piece I started out with outlining every aspect and detail I was going to put on my piece in pencil first before I started painting. then after I finished with my outline of my piece I started with creating the fading background of the sky. I used primer and a array of different shades of blue contrasting from many light shades giving the sky depth as it would become darker the further away the sky was. then after that I started getting a base coat of brown on each desk and then slowly blending a lighter shade on the sides and angles that were fading into the light that would be hitting the desk. Then I used a lighter brown for the sides that would completely be hit with light due to the side that was facing the light. then I worked on the clouds around the desk making them look fluffy and light while changing the sizes to give them depth on how close and far away they were. Once I finished painting everything I went over all the sloppy lines and made them strait and clean like some of the desks I refined their lines. Doing this I had to remake my background and then after I remade the faded blue sky I then finished it with doing the big white cloud on top of my piece.
The Meaning
Furniture is used within all of our lives and we use them for their convenience and usefulness of being confrontable. That's their purpose and that's what I am describing in my piece through the help of my artist inspiration. In my piece it has many desks that I have used throughout my life and all of these desks have the same purpose to me. This piece called room focuses on how all my life I have progressed through out my life achieving my objectives from what is given to me on as desk. The purpose of a desk for me is one to have my head in the clouds where half of the time I daze off out of existence and then come back to my senses. The other purpose is learning and working. Almost every task given to me in my life was placed on my desk or at my desk. Either it was online or on a paper it was assigned and finished at a desk that I was in. A desk to me is like the start point and finish line to every assignment leading to your success with your future. The more you finish at that desk the more you succeed the same applies for the opposite of that scenario. Floating on each cloud is a desk that I have sat at and learned in, daydreamed in, worked in, and succeeded in. The desk is the workplace where my mind goes to work or goes to relax and in this painting this is what represents my mind in a relaxing state at a desk. The reason for the bed is what is sacrificed due to what I must finish and do at a desk, sleeping is what I am not doing if I am at my desk working.
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Experimentation
For my experimentation I used Bob Ross and his technique on how he creates his clouds and used that knowledge I obtained to create my clouds using his method on making clouds within his pieces.
Reflection
I was really happy on how my idea turned out it was exactly how I imagined it. if I could improve something on this piece I would improve the blending and also mostly add shadows to each desk to give them more depth in the piece. I think the piece has demonstrated clearly on what is occurring within this piece. My meaning of this piece is a little more conceptual and personal but this piece can be open to interpretation and could be represented for many different meanings just depends on the eye of the beholder. what I really loved about this piece is how I created the desk to make this surrealist piece of imaginary floating desks. The desk are well placed throughout my piece where they aren't irrelevant in my piece but also not overwhelming as well. the use of asymmetrical balance and how my piece has this where one side complements the other even though they are complete opposites.
CritiqueMy piece "Room" reflects on my artist inspirations and how I created my piece through using their pieces and ideas intertwined with my own ideas. my meaning and purpose is represented through the meanings of both of my artist inspirations. My use of furniture was inspired by my artist inspiration Dali's and his piece where Dali's use of furniture in his piece gives the furniture more meaning and significance than rather being just a piece of furniture.
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Connecting to ACT
1. Identify cause and effect relationships between your inspiration and your artwork.
In my piece "Room" that was inspired by Salvador Dali "Four Armchairs In The Sky" I applied his use of furniture within mine to give the furniture a meaning in relevance to me
2. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The author's approach in connection with Dali's piece is that he used significant events and represented these events through common non significant everyday objects and landscapes that occurred within the time period through his career.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
That the use of space within art can create a bigger picture with the same size of a piece from altering perspective through size, proportion, and space.
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
My central theme of my piece That using normal objects I use on the daily and giving them a significant meaning through my conceptual art concept.
5. What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
when researching my inspiration of Dali and Ruscha I looking further into how they used conceptual art and their movement to convey their meaning.
In my piece "Room" that was inspired by Salvador Dali "Four Armchairs In The Sky" I applied his use of furniture within mine to give the furniture a meaning in relevance to me
2. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The author's approach in connection with Dali's piece is that he used significant events and represented these events through common non significant everyday objects and landscapes that occurred within the time period through his career.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
That the use of space within art can create a bigger picture with the same size of a piece from altering perspective through size, proportion, and space.
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
My central theme of my piece That using normal objects I use on the daily and giving them a significant meaning through my conceptual art concept.
5. What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
when researching my inspiration of Dali and Ruscha I looking further into how they used conceptual art and their movement to convey their meaning.
Citations
Dali, Salvador. “Four Armchairs in the Sky, 1949 - Salvador Dali.” Www.wikiart.org, 1 Jan. 1970, www.wikiart.org/en/salvador-dali/four-armchairs-in-the-sky.
“In Past ShowInternational Pop at Philadelphia Museum of Art.” Ed Ruscha | Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas (1963) | Artsy, www.artsy.net/artwork/ed-ruscha-standard-station-amarillo-texas-6#!
“In Past ShowInternational Pop at Philadelphia Museum of Art.” Ed Ruscha | Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas (1963) | Artsy, www.artsy.net/artwork/ed-ruscha-standard-station-amarillo-texas-6#!