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@richardpaz
Artist statement
I use paint to share my perceptions. In this series, I explore my unique views of life. My compositions are abstracted, first person views of objects and moments that are integral to my identity. The work incorporates synthetic colors and materials that are used to distort the subjects relation to reality. The compositions are meant to question how we choose to make sense of our lives. If you could choose, what would your world look like?
Research Post
My family is from Honduras so I'm always interested in culture and art from the country I barely know anything about. This week I came across this graffiti artist based in Honduras named Maeztro Urbano. For those who don't know, Honduras has dealt with several adversities throughout most of its history including poverty, political instability, and gang violence. As a result, there is not much of a commercial art world, and I've yet to learn about more than 2 or 3 major artists from the country, who are mainly muralists. Maeztro Urbano saw a need for art in his community and didn't wait for help. The artists work often focuses on political messages that draw negative attention from both the government and gangs. Maeztro Urbano says that his main objective is not political, but to bring art to areas where it isn't! It was amazing to see the evolution of the Mural, and how it is arguably even more relevant today.
Here's the link to video:
Abstraction VII, acrylic on canvas, 24 in X 36 in, 2021
These colors make me give me such cozy feelings. I wish I could see it in person to see all the subtle tones/layered colors. The Brushstrokes in the orange tones almost look like they're concealing an image behind them.
Long way of saying this is incredible!!!
Progress Post
I'm finally starting to play with my materials!
I used metallic wrapping paper I got from dollar tree. It's actually slightly transparent so stay tuned for more experiments. For now this is just a base layer. I'm going to paint over everything so only parts of the paper show through.
Also any tips on how to photograph shiny things so they read as shiny are welcomed lol
Experimenting with plastic/transparency and how colors can overlap and change
This looks so cool! I wonder what these would look like on a light box. The purples are so bright in the light!
Research Post
I've been thinking more about abstracting my paintings. The professor suggested I look at Sascha Brannig, and her work is so good. Sascha puts her figures in these abstracted worlds where they are usually twisted or contorted by unique environments. She often sculpts figures in her studio and then abstracts them on her canvas. These abstract elements help enhance the message of the work.
I also found an article that compared her work to Jan Van Eyck and Hans Hoblien. These were two Northern Renaissance painters who were known for their tromp l'eoil techniques making their paintings famous for their time. Sascha Brannig is continuing this tradition by using hyperrealistic elements in new ways that bring new dimensions to how the overall work is read.
Progress Post
I started painting 2 this week.
What does it make you feel/ think about?
Progress Post
Nowhere near done. I spent most of my time figuring out how I was going to approach this. It took so much longer than I anticipated to figure out where to put the figures and find the right color pallette. This is just the underpinning, but I'm loving the colors. I think putting these soft blues, purples, and pinks with the darkness of the imagery will achieve the right effects!
Here is a sketch drawing and painting of a man with flowers as eyes, crying flower puddles.
The Good: the eyes and puddles
The problem: the mouth his not supposed to be smiling.
The result: the painting is good, minus the mouth it looks good.
This is such a cool concept. I'm really enjoying hearing u talk about somthing and then seeing it materialize even better then I thought it would be! I'm also loving the outlines of the petals!
Research Post
My series is going to be really personal. It's difficult for me to be vulnerable so just bare with me.
I'm still trying to articulate my series to myself.
"A journey of healing and how I make sense of the world. "
More to come on that later.
Part of this journey is being stuck in my head. I'm my own worst enemy, critic, saboteur, etc.
So....and just bare with me....I really relate to these paintings:
1. The Flaying of Marsyas, Titian
2. The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, Jusepe de Ribera
I learned about both paintings in Art History a few years ago, and was initially drawn to them just because I love horror and gory stuff. Today I researched their stories, both equally messed up.
Marsyas was a saytr that became really good at playing an instrument called a Aulos. Apollo doubted Marsyas' skills, so Marsyas challenged the god to a music battle. Apollo cheated and punished Marsyas for not being more humble and ripped his friggin skin off!
St. Bartholomew (aka Jesus' disciple Nathaniel) travled and spread the word after Jesus died. When he got to Armenia, Bartholomew converted the King which angred the king's brother. So the King's brother had Bartholomew flayed and then beheaded. Because of how he died, Bartholomew is now ironically the patron saint of tanners, plasterers, tailors, leatherworkers, bookbinders, farmers, housepainters, butchers, and glove makers.
You may ask, what the hell does this have to do with me?
I see these paintings as a perfect metaphor for my mental trauma. When I'm in my negative headspace this is how I feel! Like I'm ripping myself up inside, or like the world is ripping me up!
So for the painting I'm starting first, I want to paint myself getting flayed.....I know it's dark...but I think when it's with more uplifting paintings of my series, it won't read that bad. 😬
I want to be absolutely clear, I do not in any way condone physical self harm. I want to stress that this concept is strictly a metaphor for specifically psychological pain/trauma.
We're in the middle of doing some renovations in my house, so i could not find a lot of the materials that i wanted to use for this exercise. Instead, I gathered a couple of pieces of jewelry from my mom, my sister, and myself and tried to come up with something. Lol.
I probably arranged and rearranged about 8 times before I settled on these. I found myself trying to find, or create warmth in these cold unmoving items... which definitely makes me connect more to the work and thoughts of Anna Weber (see last research post)
We wear these items to give our appearance pizzazz, life, sparkle, comfort (or discomfort), spunk, and everything in between.... and when we're done we take them off and they're back to being stagnant, immobile, cold, and lacking vigor.
Research Post
This week I did a lot of research into styles/ visual languages I want to explore in my paintings. I'm still trying to articulate what I want to do, but it's starting to make more sense in my mind.
I want to combine really bright shiny things with super dark things.
In my previous post I talked about how I'm looking into shiny materials. I want to make my paintings with a sense of high energy;really vibrant and juicy.
I equally want to explore darkness and how these two drastically different elements can be fused. I looked a lot into Carvaggios paintings. I found this one that I wanted to replicate for this week's material assignment. I liked how it was coming out and was to afraid to take the next step. The big leap, I think that's what my first painting is going to be about.
I also looked at Pontormo and his bright colors he used in his works. Xiao Wang is a contemporary artist, and I love how he uses his colors.
Now that I have a better sense of the mood for my series, I need to figure out the subjects!
Exercise post
So this week we were challenged to work with materials. I got super excited by this concept and our talk about painting mediums. I know I want to use shiny things in my paintings so I researched a bunch of materials, my favorites were these metallic foils like gold leaf and these holographic vinyl sheets that I ordered off Amazon. So like any normal person I got impatient and went to dollar tree to find the exact things I had just ordered. I came across these party bags and wrapping paper that were right up my alley. Butt, now I'm stuck on how to use it. What I had a plan to add it to a painting but I got scared after working on it too much and didn't add any materials. Super Fail for the actual assignment but I'm glad I ran in tho this problem early. Womp womp.
I want my paintings to make people feel like this music makes me feel. I can't really convey the feeling so let me know how it makes you feel. I left off a lot of guilty pleasures ....A lot! Let me know if there's a song you think I should check out.
My experimentation with fabric sculpting on a flat surface 1(2)
Richard Paz @richardpaz
The TV show he binge watched was Veep (its starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus... the lady from Seinfeld)
His dream holiday would be spent on a deserted island, with his boyfriend, and his cat, Jinx (I hope I spelled it right :) )
His favorite family dish is Lasagna! Dad is from Honduras, and mom is White European
Cats vs. Dogs? Of course he picked cats!
At the time, he was in his room, in Newark, NJ, and he is Majoring in Art, with an Art History minor.
Oh, and he's currently an intern at the Newark Museum!
His camera wasn't on so I attempted to draw the zoom screen as I saw it. Lol
