My day
Size: 22.9 cm x 15 cm
Medium: Block Print
September 25, 2021
Medium: Block Print
September 25, 2021
Exhibition Text:
I wanted to be able to express an event in my life in which it was supposed to be great but ended up overwhelming. This piece was mainly inspired by Jose Guadalupe Posada but throughout the process I was also inspired by the artist Bohumil Kubista. This piece was made from black print, print paper, and lino-cut. My inspiration of these two artists came from their medium and movement. Posada's medium and use of shape inspired most of the artpiece and Kubista's art movement and use of line inspired the rest of this piece.
I wanted to be able to express an event in my life in which it was supposed to be great but ended up overwhelming. This piece was mainly inspired by Jose Guadalupe Posada but throughout the process I was also inspired by the artist Bohumil Kubista. This piece was made from black print, print paper, and lino-cut. My inspiration of these two artists came from their medium and movement. Posada's medium and use of shape inspired most of the artpiece and Kubista's art movement and use of line inspired the rest of this piece.
Inspirations
Artist: Jose Guadalupe Posada
The artist who influenced me the most was Jose Guadalupe Posada. He worked as a lithographer, engraver, and cartoonist in Mexico. As a child, Posada worked as a farm labourer and in a pottery factory. He taught school for a short time and then began to draw, inspired largely by posters for the Rea Circus. Gradually he was attracted to printmaking. José Guadalupe Posada’s subject matter varied including: advertising art, religious images, illustrations for posters, flyers, brochures and books. He is best known for his animated skeletons (calaveras). I liked his use of symbolism, shape and line. He is very connected to his culture which is something I also wanted it to connect to. He uses skeletons to convey his Mexican culture since these objects are used to represent the day of the dead in Mexico and that is the same kind of approach I wanted to take. I liked his use of space since some of the times he left a lot of white space to emphasize the skeletons and sometimes he left very little space to tell a bigger story. I was mainly inspired by the piece of a male skeleton walking behind a female skeleton.
Artist: Bohumil Kubista
Bohumil Kubista was a Czech painter and art critic. Kubišta came to his individual expression gradually, at first he was influenced by the work of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. He worked in an Expressionist style until 1910, and exchanged ideas with German painters in Die Brücke. His later style was strongly influenced by Expressionism and Cubism. I was very inspired by his use of color and how he used shape and line together. Although my piece is not meant to have any color, that element attracted me to look at his work and analyze it. He emphasized these elements and created an equal contrast throughout the painting. I also liked how he nicely fit lines and shapes together to make a uniform painting. For my piece, I did not want to leave empty space around my object, and Kubista's use of shape and line inspired me to create a similar cubist work. I was mainly inspired by "Kiss of a Death" because of the way the lines and shapes worked very well together. I also liked how even though it was distorted, you could still tell what the painting was and distinguish its main features.