Repunzel Tiles
Tissue Paper, Modge Podge, and Artist Marker
Fall 2014
As displayed my piece ‘Repunzel Tiles’, I had a brief love affaire with the concept of distance in art. It’s fascinating. It’s an illusionary adventure. Artists from different areas and cultures handled different mediums to convey space in flat works.
The ever-famous Lenardo da Vinci utilized several forms, visible in two of his most famous works.
The Mona Lisa utilizes a landscape technique that fades the farthest distances, creating a sense of depth.
The Last Supper, however, exemplifies da Vinci’s skill in Perspective Art.
Half way across the world, an Asian Artist also successfully portrayed distance in landscape in a very different medium, with a different technique.
The 15th Centaury artist Sesshu from Japan created works such as this ‘Winter Landscape’ of art in ink on paper scroll. Instead of adhering to any perspective or highly muted lines, Sesshu simply made objects smaller as he saw them. In ink, I consider this a terrifying technique.
All works above are terrific, I enjoyed dissecting each and every one, however it was Pieter Bruegel’s 16th century work that grabbed my attention and directly inspired my Repunzel Tiles.
This oil piece on wood, titled ‘Hunters in the Snow’ or ‘Winter’ utilized diminishing detail, size reduction (however not in perspective per say), and color dilution to best convey distance.
This is the work I mimicked using screens of tissue paper to dilute and partially obscure former layers of landscape. However, seeing other artists using oil, tempera, wood, ink, and paper inspired me to attempt my own media and experiment, which availed me to learn my own technique and try my hand at innovation.