Édouard Manet, Olympia For my reinterpretation of a historic painting I decided immediately that I wanted to use “romance” and “ecstatic” for my theme and adjective that would expressed through my artwork. I chose these two words once I found out the work had to relate to us personally, and one of my favorite things to do is talk about my relationship. The painting I chose to reinterpret is Édouard Manet, Olympia, which I chose solely because it had a pair of ladies posed in a vaguely romantic stance. My chosen personal experience for this project was the first time I had ever met my girlfriend in person, so a painting of two women was more than enough for me to work with. I chose to use three different color schemes in my work, the first being various tints and shades of pink and purple for the romance aspect, yellow and orange for ecstatic, and grayscale for the main subjects of the piece. I have my main form, Jasmine, lying on top of the fabric layered together to create a couch and pillows. I wanted to make the couch warm and loving because those were vibes I felt coming off of her the moment she walked out of the bus station. The orange and yellow that seem to be bursting off of me are an accurate representation of what my mind was experiencing in this moment. There was a blissful, surreal feeling of joy and shock that just seemed to hit me all at once and I felt this was best expressed with bright, warm colors. As for the two figures I went with grayscale because I wanted to show that we were both people in the same situation, thinking and feeling the same things, and yet handling them in two completely different manners. When we saw each other Jasmine kept it pretty cool; she smiled broadly and kept mostly quiet. This made her stand out more than anything else around me; I’d never seen anyone or anything more clearly than I saw her in that moment, which is why she is so realistically cut out of paper. I on the other hand had immediately broken into a cold sweat, thrown up in my mouth, and started shaking uncontrollably. I couldn’t form a comprehensive thought and stuttered out every word I tried so desperately to get out. I wanted to show my state of disarray and ecstasy through the use of expressive line to create a vague silhouette of myself. Lastly, I placed some subtle braille code throughout the fabric of the couch that can be translated into some of the thoughts that were buzzing around my head, such as; “Wowie!” and “This is actually happening!”
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The two different expressive words I chose to focus on in this project are overgrown and decrepit. The main goal of this project was to give us experience with creating a 3-D work of art out of expressive, non representational, 2-D images. I attempted to make my shapes resemble a cluster of ruins and scrap metal, shown by the rectilinear shapes and hard edges, that has been once again overtaken by nature, shown by the multiple organic forms. While I am satisfied with the end result of this project I feel like it could be revisited with more shapes on the walls and just throughout the whole composition.
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