I finished it late early Tuesday morning and I look at it and wonder what I must have been wondering when I was working on it. I certainly haven't figured it out, at least not consciencely. Feel free to share your thoughts. And do you think the title fits the painting?
http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/0002k4cy/g11
(It's a semi-nude. And you can click to enlarge the imagine.)
2006-10-20 14:43:02 · 6 answers · asked by Doc Watson 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Char, I originally was going to call it 'Outside The Box' but the word box can imply more than one meaning, if you know what I mean.
2006-10-20 15:06:29 · update #1
Joyful, my dear friend! I don't mind the psychoanalysed part so much. But this painting did take an interesting turn Monday evening. I painted her first with a tank top and a sun in the background. Then, for some reason removed both the sky and the shirt. Perhaps she's the woman I don't have in my life - being out there waiting somewhere but either unreachable or with too many obstacles in the way?
2006-10-20 16:44:34 · update #2
Well, Wats - only you know what it "means". You don't really want to be psychoanalysed on Yahoo Answers, do you? In front of all these strangers?
Nice contrast in texture.
Edit: Yes, obstacles. Big mean ones with sharp edges. But you knew that.
2006-10-20 16:18:34 · answer #1 · answered by joyfulpaints 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there is an impulse from the girl....you can see it in her body language yet this is contrasted by the 3d parallelograms, very strict and sober. I would say it means you are holding an impulse/instinct back or were when you painted it. Tough love as a title is pretty good, it implies something is having trouble being expressed. Although there isn't much of a loving vibe to it, it's more like a cold/sex/ego thing going on.... and you are tryng to mask your sadness with it. (to yourself as well)
2006-10-20 15:36:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder more what it is trying to say about you. The edges being so firm, so rigid, so controlled and organized. The inside being so soft, so relaxed, very feminine and casual. Perhaps you feel that you need to present a certain "front" to the world, while the inside of you is not at all, perhaps even the opposite of what you present. Your desire is for the world to see who you really are, but you feel as if no one knows. I would call it, "The Boxed In Self."
2006-10-20 15:33:24 · answer #3 · answered by bloomquist324 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doc...looks like the viewer is the one trapped or not able to reach out. I've had a similar painting in mind a long time...from a wierder point of view....I am a rabbit crouching under a porch afraid to submit to the beckoning little girl bending over and peering at me from outside. She indicates it is allright to come out, but my sense is extreme danger.
2006-10-20 23:43:36 · answer #4 · answered by Victor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd call it "Into the Box." You want to get something .. see title.
You are good. Kind of mixture of soft/hard edge, figurative and non-representative, impasto and thin application. I would like the jeans to be blue. Otherwise, it is very cold in color and composition. Are you waiting for something to happen and not trying to help it along? Are you feeling distant and detached?
Thanks. Keep it up.
2006-10-20 15:02:48 · answer #5 · answered by Charlie Kicksass 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does it have to have a special meaning? Or is it just something that you felt like painting? You can't "force" a meaning on something you paint; and we can't tell you what you meant when you painted it, can we? I think only you can know what it means, if it means anything! Does everything we paint have to have a meaning?
2006-10-21 01:10:44 · answer #6 · answered by poppet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋