Title: Bliss
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24 cm by 36cm
Bliss is a piece that highlights on the elements that our life is presented with, yet we tend to be ignorant towards such blessings and continue to live life by societal norms. This piece portrays how society views me, how I view society, and how I contribute to my community. Bliss was inspired from the works of Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, and Claude Monet.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24 cm by 36cm
Bliss is a piece that highlights on the elements that our life is presented with, yet we tend to be ignorant towards such blessings and continue to live life by societal norms. This piece portrays how society views me, how I view society, and how I contribute to my community. Bliss was inspired from the works of Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, and Claude Monet.
Critical Investigation:
The theme of Bliss was the impact that nurturing nature can have on certain individuals and how capitalism is a barrier towards the satisfaction one receives by such elements presented in our world. The most significant inspiration behind this project was Salvador Dali. I have always been pleased by the utilization of the smooth texture in his work, as it provides his paintings with a clean orientation and gives it order. Salvador Dali was best known for the incorporation of dreamy effects in his paintings, hence I decided to present that aspect of Dali's work in Bliss. I wanted my piece to possess a literal meaning of the theme I was trying to display. Another author that captivated my interest towards the composition of Bliss was Henri Matisse. The aspect that made me admire Matisse's work was usage of alternating hues and abstract shapes. That was beneficial towards the methods I applied painting the trees, leaves, the skin color, and the background. As I thought about the painting techniques and the overall composition of the trees, plants, leaves, ocean, sun, lilly pads, Claude Monet came to mind. Claude Monet is highly apparent for the passion he had for nature, as all of paintings contained those features. I loved the ways in which he gave the lakes and rivers in his paintings a realistic approach by making reflections of almost everything in it. His work had to much unity and that is what I was looking for in my tryptic. It's not easy to connect all three panels to each other to display the same exact theme, hence I utilized the works of all of these three artists and composed Bliss.
The theme of Bliss was the impact that nurturing nature can have on certain individuals and how capitalism is a barrier towards the satisfaction one receives by such elements presented in our world. The most significant inspiration behind this project was Salvador Dali. I have always been pleased by the utilization of the smooth texture in his work, as it provides his paintings with a clean orientation and gives it order. Salvador Dali was best known for the incorporation of dreamy effects in his paintings, hence I decided to present that aspect of Dali's work in Bliss. I wanted my piece to possess a literal meaning of the theme I was trying to display. Another author that captivated my interest towards the composition of Bliss was Henri Matisse. The aspect that made me admire Matisse's work was usage of alternating hues and abstract shapes. That was beneficial towards the methods I applied painting the trees, leaves, the skin color, and the background. As I thought about the painting techniques and the overall composition of the trees, plants, leaves, ocean, sun, lilly pads, Claude Monet came to mind. Claude Monet is highly apparent for the passion he had for nature, as all of paintings contained those features. I loved the ways in which he gave the lakes and rivers in his paintings a realistic approach by making reflections of almost everything in it. His work had to much unity and that is what I was looking for in my tryptic. It's not easy to connect all three panels to each other to display the same exact theme, hence I utilized the works of all of these three artists and composed Bliss.