Detatchment

by redrevvy

in Completed Works

Warning! This submission may contain mature content.

Description

May 9th 2009

Tags:: creepy life model life painting nude portrait wierd
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Comments:: 8
Score:: 8
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Life model painting #3... we had to reference the model and do something cool with it. There are at least 5 sets of bones in this.

I think everyone else likes the painting more than I do. Sorry the glare of the paint really ruins the effect. :/

***EDIT***

Wow.. thank you for the feature on this piece! Jojo has a really great eye and great knowledge when it comes to recognizing a good work-- which is very flattering! Such a well written write up about composition and visual technique-- a very good read to learn from. Thank you, so much! How ironic it was on the day this piece was chosen I decided to gesso over it for this semester's projects. I have not the money to purchase canvas or to purchase supplies to stretch canvas, so the old pieces had to be sacrificed. But thats what happens, y'know? Thank you :)

Feature

Featured by Radical JoJo

Sep 28th 2009

Detachment is an interesting variation on the idea of a figure painting exercise. Redrevvy has assembled a fascinating composition, dark and disquieting. One figure hangs over another in heavy horizontal lines, setting the viewer's expectations up for a crushing fall, or a slow smothering. The only colors are deathly pallid against black. Translucent shapes--bones, upon closer inspection, float in a ghostly manner, seeming to flow almost like liquid. The shapes conjure up frightening connotations: water pouring and rising, or other spilling fluids, columns of some dark temple or cathedral draped for a funeral, the limbs of skeletons, the trunks of barren trees...The composition is made more uncomfortable by the cropping of the figures at the edges of the canvas; the other elements of the piece make it clear that this is a deliberate choice. The full effect is evocative and eerie, and completely effective.