2 ADV ART - Art Objective

Hey! This is for advanced art so if you're in portfolio then this is not for you and you should ignore this.

(btw>>> All of the stuff written in red are irrelevant comments I'm making to myself so skip those!! It's so that in the future I can look back at these posts and remember my thought process.)

Throughout this year, I will explore negative space and hidden meanings. Last semester I did two projects that were influenced by two artists - Cy Twombly (the artist that I didn't like initially), and Cristina Troufa (the artist that I did like initially)...
I didn't do the third project where I was supposed to combine the two (whoops) but that's exactly what I plan on investigating this semester!! I really like the idea of dealing with negative space and I also think infusing words in my art is a really cool concept. I think I'm going to focus more on concept that I used in my 2nd project (Cristina Troufa) but I am definitely going to keep the inspiration that I gained from the 1st project (Cy Twombly) in my mind as the year progresses.
On this blog, I will be posting pictures and explaining my artwork and ideas. I will also post sources of where I got my inspiration from.

Here's pictures of the first project I did in advanced art.. done with wood (as substrate) and beeswax: (Cy Twombly)..
I basically blew beeswax on the wood with a heat gun and waited for it to mostly cool, then I started etching words in it. Then I began to overlap my words, over and over again so it became illegible. I blew the wax with the heat gun again in a few spots to smooth the wax but it is not consistent throughout the entire board. I also wrote tiny words in the bottom right corner of the wood, where I did not blow any wax on. Those words are not overlapped and you can read them if you look close enough (complied of my own thoughts and words I have read and related to online.) You can't see it in the pictures, though. In fact, I didn't really tell anyone about it. It wasn't supposed to be seen unless you were really looking for it.

(up close)

Here's a picture of Cy Twombly's work just to give my work a little bit of perspective:

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Here's pictures of the second project I did in advanced art.. done with watercolor: (Cristina Troufa)...
With this project, I took a picture of a classmate and slightly edited her picture. Then I painted it in watercolor, subtracting the spaces where the light hit her. Those parts of her I deleted in the front, I painted in the back. So that when the light hit the painting from the behind, the front and the back of the painting(s) would come together as one 'completed' painting.

(front)

(back)

For more about this project and the artist (Cristina Troufa) I gained inspiration from, click here for my last blog post (or you could probably scroll down and see it lol)

Here's my artist statement to give you more insight on my objective:

I am interested in exploring negative space, symbolism, and hidden meanings through painting by literally concealing certain parts in my art. I aspire to blend realism and abstraction in an intriguing manner so that the viewer must actively engage/participate in the works to understand the conceptual aspects that are instilled in the piece.

:^) k bye

Links:

• http://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/cold-stream