Blog Post #5

Zdzislaw Beksinski

My series of work up till this point have tried to make a name for themselves in their inspired expressionist/ impressionist style and surialist themes. I have tried to put myself in each of these asspects and combine them and make them my own. In one of my works (black and white) I even tried to emulate an artist I admire, which is the same artist I'm contrasting myself with, Zdzislaw Beksinski. He uses shapes, textures and interpreted shadows to express heavy emotions. He uses rich, nutural, and muted colors. I use more contrasting bright colors than Zdzslaw in my works and have more of the elements I metioned before. He obviously has a better handle on getting his message across to the veiwer  and this is somthing I wish to take and learn from him.

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My concentration is evolving to include more complex themes relating to my topic, death. I have tackled attituides such as loss and rememberance as expressed in the painting with figues holding on to each other and the woman decorated in sugar skull face paint to symolise the rememberance and celebration of the Mexican holiday, Day of the Dead. I'm continuing to experiment with contrast in my work. I'm still experimenting with finding themes in death and have yet to create a solid foundation for the vision of my works. In future projects i will try to make themes more evident in my concentration.