Tryptic
Exhibition Text
"Living The Life"
Acrylic on Canvas
2ft x 1ft (per panel)
February 2, 2017
Acrylic on Canvas
2ft x 1ft (per panel)
February 2, 2017
In this Tryptic piece "Living The Life" I express who am I, The artist in the city, and the city in the artist. In my Tryptic I represent how I am distant from the world and how I do my own thing. It also represents how I hide my actual myself from the public and act like someone that I'm not. This piece lastly represents how the world through my eyes is broken.
Artist Inspiration
Made this piece based on these artist inspirations with their movements surrealism and Modernism the styles that I found from my inspirations I then made my piece based off of their art. Artist Jacek Yerka piece "Dream World Painting" inspired me the most with my artist in the city and I wanted to recreate his piece in my own perspective and meaning. Jacek Yerka is a surrealism artist that isn't really known for his work and he has many beautiful pieces. His art has a beautiful way of making the viewer create their own meaning to his piece and I want to follow this when making my Tryptic. My piece is different to Jacek due to how I represent myself in the piece instead of the city in my head I'm far away and I'm rather distant from the city. The artist inspiration that inspired me the most for my about me part of my Tryptic is "Girl before the Mirror" by Pablo Picasso. Unlike my artist, my piece differs from my inspiration on that instead of pregnant women it's myself in the mirror.
But I have a mask on in the mirror and that is what my main idea for the meaning. The artist that inspired my city in the artist piece was mainly Dali's piece "Sleep" but the pink and yellow city above my head was inspired by no other than my artist inspiration Jacek who had the city on top of the head which is what represent my meaning for that piece.
It shows to me all the thoughts that we have in our head making use stressed and full of headaches due to the weight of the world on top of us. I wanted to depict the sense of misplaced and unwanted within my piece, these are what make me broken my spirit and determination is what make me whole. I also was going to show ambition, and how I hide. I wanted to represent with one of my pieces how my head is full of thoughts which will be the main idea occurring though out all of my pieces. This piece wasn't very inspired by the Son of Man -Rene Magritte 1964 because it was a original idea to have some of his art implemented into mine but in the end my plan changed and I never used that idea nor his art inspiration.
But I have a mask on in the mirror and that is what my main idea for the meaning. The artist that inspired my city in the artist piece was mainly Dali's piece "Sleep" but the pink and yellow city above my head was inspired by no other than my artist inspiration Jacek who had the city on top of the head which is what represent my meaning for that piece.
It shows to me all the thoughts that we have in our head making use stressed and full of headaches due to the weight of the world on top of us. I wanted to depict the sense of misplaced and unwanted within my piece, these are what make me broken my spirit and determination is what make me whole. I also was going to show ambition, and how I hide. I wanted to represent with one of my pieces how my head is full of thoughts which will be the main idea occurring though out all of my pieces. This piece wasn't very inspired by the Son of Man -Rene Magritte 1964 because it was a original idea to have some of his art implemented into mine but in the end my plan changed and I never used that idea nor his art inspiration.
Planning Sketches
I made 3 planning sketches each with 3 ideas for one panel on each planning sketch. for the about me panel I wanted to show how I'm fake to the real world and or how I keep still in the moment of time like a vase. for my artist in the city panel, I wanted to capture how I'm apart from modern society and how I keep away from everyone and everything. For my city in the artist panel, I wanted to have some surrealistic looking buildings with unreal perspectives. then later I decided to rethink my idea for that piece and that how I created my third panel based off of Dali's painting "Sleep".
The Meaning
My Tryptic piece "Living The Life" it more the opposite is where I really saying I'm living a life that's not mine. my life isn't worth living and how I hide my true self and feeling towards the world is really the life I live and that what "Living The Life" means to me. this piece is expressing a lot of the ways I seclude myself from today's society and how it's always there and hiding is the only thing I can do. my about me piece is showing how I put on a mask to hide from the public and isolate myself from others. I was always a nice guy and there's a saying that goes "Nice guys finish last" so relating to that I must stay strong to survive in this world. my artist in the city panel is me staying distant from the city getting away, relaxing and finding a place to be alone. I don't want to be involved with what takes place in the world I only am concerned for what relates to me. I was always told that when I grow up I will have an impact on the world but what if its a negative impact. so I rather avoid not having anything to deal with modern society. for my city in the artist panel, i wanted to show all the thoughts that we have in our head making use stressed and full of headaches due to the weight of the world on top of us. I wanted to depict the sense of misplaced and unwanted within my piece, these are what make me broken my spirit and determination is what make me whole. I also was going to show ambition, and how I hide. I wanted to represent with one of my pieces how my head is full of thoughts which will be the main idea occurring throughout all of my pieces. the pink buildings are what represents my brain and that also represents how the world is always on my mind. me being helped by they shaped pegs depict how I'm tired of the world relying on me my generation us that is said to make a change when I can't even change my own life around. sleeping my life away is what I call "Living The Life".
Reflection
While making my tryptic I found out many strengths and struggles throughout the process. my struggles were first finding an inspiration and ideas on what I want to make my pieces from. this stalled me from starting until later due to me having no idea what I want my piece to be based off. the other thing I then struggled with is the lack of resources I only had so many paints to use at the time making these pieces and I used what I had to create these panels. Another thing I struggled with is my brush technique I am not good at recreating the movement of a clean surrealism. although I had to say when I did come up with ideas it became a strength of this piece because I think what I was going for were great ways of depicting the prompt with making a piece that has my own charm in them while still relating to my inspiration. another strength would be my third panel I mean I struggled thinking of an idea for what city in the artist would be for that and sooner than later I found a creative idea to make the piece you see as my third panel. My final piece and my connections and meanings are the strongest components to my tryptic because of the good execution I did with comparing the two. Overall I am proud of the finished product I made.
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Planning
Brainstorming Before I made my three panels I did some brainstorming and these were the ideas that first came to mind.
Process
After the three 2ft by 1ft canvas were made I then started to put gesso on them. From the ideas that I got from brainstorming and my planning sketches is how I created my piece. I used a T-ruler to draw the outlines of the 3D building that I would later paint in for my artist in the city panel. for my paintings, i used surrealism and modernism art movements like my artist inspirations. I used their ideas and artwork and intergraded them into a piece of my own while capturing my own thoughts and perspective. as you can see throughout the process photos for my first panel I was struggling for a color to be the tops of the buildings, that would fade darker the further the buildings were to the sun. so at the end, I decided to use an orange tan mixture to create a look of the sunset reflecting off the roofs of the buildings. for my second panel, I wanted to use the idea from "Girl before the mirror" by Pablo Picasso with making it more dark to add some of my own personality to it. Using modernism create my piece like Picasso to show in mine how I hide from the public. for my third panel I used a combination of Dali's piece "Sleep" and "Dream World" Painting- by Jacek Yerka for my piece. I created a version of my face as days sleep while having a city grow from my head in pink to represent my brain. I also added a little bit of a pop art aspect by having black outlines to make the piece pop. my process mainly was me finding the right hues to represent each piece.
CritiqueMy piece "Living The Life" shares some similarities with my inspirations Dream World Painting- Jacek Yerka, Girl before a Mirror- Pablo Picasso, and Le Sommeil (Sleep), 1937 by Salvador Dali. As you can see in my piece I depict a piece of each of my inspirations that were integrated into these panels. I used the movements surrealism and Modernism to create the style of my piece and how they're viewed. u use the detail and visual perception to emphasize the aspect of distance within each of my pieces in this tryptic. I relied mostly on building to depict myself being connected with modern society and the world in general. I used short brush strokes to create the surrealism impression and art style they create. my piece may have sloppier edges and less fine detailed background but the main point is still addressed within my piece.
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Connecting to ACT
1. Identify cause and effect relationships between your inspiration and your artwork.
My inspiration of surrealism had a great influence on my artwork. Taken the idea of capturing distance and the moment of time with my piece using the art movement surrealism.
2. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The overall approach to Dali's piece was to depict a moment of time stopping with using the art movement surrealism.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?After I've did some research, I've came to a generalization about the idea of surrealism. It is a movement where artists focus more on the aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality".
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The central theme around my inspirational research was famous surrealism artist. I then searched up art by them to gather some ideas.
5. What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
From my research, I've made inferences that people impact the world more then the world itself.
My inspiration of surrealism had a great influence on my artwork. Taken the idea of capturing distance and the moment of time with my piece using the art movement surrealism.
2. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The overall approach to Dali's piece was to depict a moment of time stopping with using the art movement surrealism.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?After I've did some research, I've came to a generalization about the idea of surrealism. It is a movement where artists focus more on the aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality".
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The central theme around my inspirational research was famous surrealism artist. I then searched up art by them to gather some ideas.
5. What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
From my research, I've made inferences that people impact the world more then the world itself.
Citations
"MOST POPULAR PAINTINGS." Le Sommeil (Sleep), 1937 by Salvador Dali. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2017. <http://www.dalipaintings.com/sleep.jsp>.
Benford, Susan. "Famous Paintings: Girl Before a Mirror." Famous Paintings in the History of Art. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2017. <http://www.themasterpiececards.com/famous-paintings-reviewed/bid/88200/Famous-Paintings-Girl-Before-a-Mirror>.
"Dream-world-painting-jacek-yerka (10)." Webneel. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2017. <http://webneel.com/webneel/work/dream-world-painting-jacek-yerka-10>.
"The Son of Man." Art wiki. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2017. <http://art.wikia.com/wiki/The_Son_of_Man>.
Benford, Susan. "Famous Paintings: Girl Before a Mirror." Famous Paintings in the History of Art. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2017. <http://www.themasterpiececards.com/famous-paintings-reviewed/bid/88200/Famous-Paintings-Girl-Before-a-Mirror>.
"Dream-world-painting-jacek-yerka (10)." Webneel. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2017. <http://webneel.com/webneel/work/dream-world-painting-jacek-yerka-10>.
"The Son of Man." Art wiki. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2017. <http://art.wikia.com/wiki/The_Son_of_Man>.