In museum, I have chosen 2D drawing "La Familia Pinzon-1965" by "Fernando Botero"
that is showing in 20th century hall. When i visited risd museum at first time, this drawing gave me smile because of it's figures look like characters in animation. It is picture of one family and has static and passive composition. It consists of one tree in the back ground and father,mother,three children and a dog in the foreground. Each one of them appears formal look like our thinking. Specially, their features have a very glamorous-looking of round and fat body shape and their appearence resembles closely. So we can distinguish theirs by how they look. This drawing gives me blunt,hard and uncomfortable feeling even though it use mid tone,secondary color and analogue color like gray pink, mid brown,skin color , olive green and etc have calm and comfortable atmosphere. Because the fingures have similarity looks with a straight face. Just only a dog has smiling. Generally this drawing shows perspective using highcontrast between background and foreground, but highcontrast is not well brought out among people except father. It has smooth visual movement. The expression of value is impressed by using dark color and touch with a straight touch conversary, fingure's shape "round". Althought it has neither highlight nor power of attraction, it has a totally harmony of balance! A subject of drawing is reality matter called a family picture. However, it's figure shape shows abstract shape with round plump and fat body not the nomal human body rate. A work of Fernando Botero is showing us the presence of sensetive and tactual body. By this abnomal composition, he try to break from exisiting standard of art and take sarcastic and humorous attitude. The reason I like his painting was making viewers smile.
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Danching responded to Haemin's post already. I have asked him to move his comments to this section.
Reading her critique, i thought that she had good eyes. at the first part, she approached to the painting from her first impression of it. she said it made her smile for the first look. i guess almost people who find the painting would get same experience as her did. And also, reading it from the big contents to detail one made me understand the painting easier. I like the part she descried the appearance of figures in it. The whole round body was very impressive for me and personally this family reminded me my best friend whose all family members are resembled each other. i totally agree with the family's looks part which had a straight face she mentioned. even though they were drawn with round lines and painted secondary colors overall, i felt they seemed to be frustrated or scared because of their expressionless face. The reference to concrete names of color let me feel colors used in the painting vividly and i liked this color part. at the last part, artist's purpose was appeared.
stable comosiation vs. a flexible feeling
Ignoring the details and decoration, this picture can be simplified into a piece of abstract pattern with circles and triangles as its essential components. A couple of circles in different size were scatted on the canvas randomly, for example the faces, balls, wheels, eyes and even those trees. All of those circles were unified under a well designed hierarchy. The first level is the group of big faces, which occupy about one fifth area of the whole picture. They are the dominant elements on the canvas. Beside the proportion another reason made them so attractive is that they are face with facial features and expression which are easy to catch the audiences’ eyes.
Although, those circles are locate randomly on the canvas. It is not to say they are out of organization. Actually, they are connected by a group of triangles. Starting from the shoulder, through arm, hand, waist, leg to the foot, the contour of portray draw a obvious triangle continually and completely. As nodes, the faces (circles) are right on the top of triangles (body). Also we can view the whole family as an entire triangle. Therefore, the composition seems symmetry and stable.
If we endow the real means back to those abstract shapes, we will be back to mundane. The groups of abstract shapes became a group of portrays. I found that the sense of balance, which created by the circles and triangles, was broken by my daily experience. The statues were over fat, even fatter than the maximum body that human can bear. They just like balloons full of gas and easy to crash. Therefore the feeling of stable no longer existed, instead, those hollow, flexible, inflated bodies transferred a feeling of light and infirmity.
June 26, 2007 11:50 PM
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