Sunday, October 16, 2011
Persimmon - Robert Rauschberg 1964 oil painting and sik screen ink
Walking through the pop art room in the contemporary section inside the art museum of Chicago, in the wall of the left, we can find a colorful artwork that catches my eyes since I saw it 1 year ago in the opposite wall.
It's made by oil painting, and some screen ink, with a mixture of eras, textures, and colors. In the center we can find a renaissance woman looking herself in a mirror, but even though her eyes are set on the viewer, with a calm and intricate gaze she invites the viewer to keep looking. Her back is naked, and all this part of this artwork is covered with a light color, kind of orange/yellow , and her location is the middle background.
Next to her comes a kind of blue frame, also this frame becomes the connection between the woman an the next picture, in the left side top part, which it is covered with a greenish color, that shows us a glass of milk, that it is on the top of a grayish white, mass of painting which shows a nice texture and movement inside it. In the woman's right bottom part of this middle background we can find a mixture of circles or something weird I could not recognized, but it had a pretty intense orange color, surrounded by a yellow stripe and next to the greenish/blue frame.
In the background it's a picture of a city which shows a lot of activity, it looks like a main street of an American's city, with a multicultural environment, and 2 announces on in the center which said "Cafeteria" and another one behind it, that it is a traffic sign, in this picture are just urban things, we can not see any nature, just the typical city picture, covered with a pink color.
And in the front background it is a picture of an eye in the center part, a little bit closer to the right side cover with a red orange color, next to a white spot just like the one on the bottom of the glass of milk,in the left side of this picture it is a picture of some scientific jars with an orange/red color on top of it, also in the top of this figure it is another white spot.
This painting is a mixture of eras, or at least it is kind of contrasting 2 times, even though sometimes he used opposite colors and pictures, he make a middle tone between each one of the colors or pictures trying to do not provoke a negative or aggressive reaction, using shinny and calm colors it makes a calm picture with a lot of sound behind it, more than a painting, it is a collage,I can say, he is adapting the renaissance woman or integrate her, to his era.
In the other hand he is surrounding the woman with all the opposite to her, for example she is part of an old era, he includes next to her a modern picture of this era, other thing she is part of a calm and relax, picture, but he contrast her with some scientific, creepy and fictional stuff, and using opposite colors next to each one to bumped them out even more.
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