Cheyne
DECONSTRUCTED SELF PORTRAIT
acrylic, canvas on found window
My
figure constructs itself the farther away you are viewing. The closer you are
and more interested in me the more it deconstructs itself. I have created a
natural deconstruction powered by perception. Look at me farther away and I am
another man in a beanie look at me closer and the less I look like anything
recognizable. The canvas inside the window presents that these are my most
favored material. This piece was created to show my imagination through surface
and my personality through perception.
It's interesting that you chose to paint on a window, instead of canvas. I can't remember the discussion of your arms, but I really wish you had included them. Because of the lack of arms, the painting feels a bit incomplete. I like that you used the window pane to deconstruct your face - from different angles your face looks different.
ReplyDeleteI really love the concept of this piece as the eye can play tricks on you with the perspective one is at. My suggestion in improvement is to place the body in front as well so it doesn't look like the head has wood placed through it and also adding arms would add a lot, even if that means having them look like they're crossed in front. I really enjoy the use of placing your image on a window. Having it placed on a window adds even more as one looks through a window all the time and the distortion one gets at a distance is interesting.
ReplyDeleteI like your use of materials how you chose to integrate your figure within the frame. Your figure is contained within the frame and then breaking through the frame in the head. My critique of this piece is that the there are some breaks in the figure. The arms are severed which seems incomplete. The concept is a little unclear in this piece. I'm not sure I would understand what this piece was trying to communicate without your artist statement.
ReplyDeleteThe use of the window as the surface is really unique. It works really well for what you were going for, the way it plays with that illusion. The concept is intriguing, the closer you are it's just some random guy but when viewed from the right angle it's you. I agree with what people have said so far and I would really like to see a more completed figure, because without that it ends up feeling unfinished. Perhaps even a more developed figure such as more details. I get that the brown on the bottom are supposed to be legs but defining them more (and other features overall) would really help to finish the figure and piece overall for me. I honestly wouldn't have understood the point of the piece of canvas unless you said so, so that feels odd to me.
ReplyDeleteThere is something slightly disturbing about this piece in terms of composotion. The head immediately to me reads as being pierced by the middle piece of the window and I think this could be slightly problematic unless there is genuine intention. I did find it hard to read and felt like sonething formally was needed to tie things together. I though you could play witj duality and identity in the sense of the natural divide in your canvas instead of it going through the head.
ReplyDeleteI think your idea was good but execution and problem solving interfered with your painting. I believe I can tell your intention but I think you should have experimented more before painting it or painted over your piece once you struggled with it.
ReplyDeleteThe intention was very creative, but parts of this piece (mostly the head) are lost in the texture of the border of the window. I still really like the idea of representing the window as if it's a mirror, but the canvas behind the mirror detracts from your idea. really cool idea though
ReplyDeleteI love this piece it reminds me on Edward Harper "Nighthawks." I love this painting not because is reminds me of "Nighthawks" but because I'm not sure if i'm the viewer or the one being viewed. It definitely plays with the mind in many ways. I think it would be cool if you could hang this piece high up in a tree to further corrupt the mind.
ReplyDeleteThis is a cool idea, and I like the way you have approached the deconstruction with the intent of looking at it from afar.
ReplyDeleteYou have a lot of interesting choices in this piece.
I think that the canvas feels out of place in the piece without knowing the reason from the artist's statement. I still have a lot of trouble with the way you separate the head from the body with the central piece of wood, and I don't know how I feel about the lack of arms. Overall I find this to be a strange piece, which is engaging, but I'm not sure if the reasons I am engaged are intentional or incidental and that makes this piece far less satisfying.
I love that you found a window. This surface creates fantastic use of space by using both the front and the back side. I feel that the canvas behind the window is a little lost, and a little out of place. I wish you had either separated the face or brought the boy forward to the face as it feels really disjointed. Great idea!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the unconventional support, but I am concerned with the window.
ReplyDeleteyou mention personality through perception, but I'm not sure you are referring to the window. personally, I like to put meaning on everything. I take symbols very seriously, and this makes me want to know if the window means anything. is your view of life being obscured by canvas debris?
"Personality through perception," I love it :) I think that was a success; I like the way you deconstructed yourself in this. I think it would have been helpful to have a bit more detail both in your form and in the canvas in the background; the canvas needs something to tie it into the piece as a joined statement rather than a floating piece of material. I love the use of glass as a surface and the window frame is so interesting! Very neat piece of work.
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