This painting depicts Madonna serenely looking down surrounded by a halo in the typical religious Renaissance style, however, I decided to challenge a lot of the ideas of how religion should be depicted. I painted her in the nude, which may be very subtle because you cannot see past her shoulders, but would have been very controversial in the 1600s-1800s when religious art was all the rage. Also, around the halo is a crown of eyes, which is alluding to the relief carving of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their Three Daughters, which is a polytheistic ancient religion and would have had Christian art critics of the time pretty much defecate in their pants. Botticelli was a huge inspiration for me, and I took common themes from his paintings such as the pose and the smile.
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For this project we were asked to explore form and proportion and anatomy. While figure drawing is my absolute favorite thing to do, I decided to slightly diverge from this and think about the figure in a more abstract way. I created a triptych in acrylic, all with very diluted secondary colors in the background and primary colors in the figure. I then outlined the figures and general shapes with a sharpie. Included in the slideshow is a picture of all three arranged how they would look when hanging. I used visible brush strokes and stark outer contours with very little or no inner contours to produce this abstract effect. |
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