Tuesday, 9 February 2016

process making "the girl astronaut"





"80% of the problem in painting can be solve by drawing"



painting is a medium of communication of the artist with the audience, and it have develop from the caves painting till now in various kind of form. As i was once a student major in painting in an art institution, i was fascinate in painting not as the image maker kind, but in the way some artist painting manage to pull you into his or her reality, world, or even perspective. The problem was how can i make that kind of artwork, some would go into personal issues, memories, that would trigger a certain people that would have the same memories for them to relate or understand the painting. Nevertheless if in the painting the depiction of memories or personal issues are very image direct, would it be as you are reading a book that have pictorial to make you easy to understand, the audience would look in a glance and understand it would they appreciate it? if the technical is superb, photo realist, or abstract or surrealist they maybe appreciate it, but just until the technical stuff. How about the content, the meaning behind the meaning, do you want the artist spoon feeding you as he or she saying "hey! i miss the feeling of playing kite, now look at this realistic kite" or "every people look at the war, its horrible, and i paint a tank and a kid that i pick the picture from the internet".

for my current painting is still in progress, its after few of drawing i have made from 2015 in my sketch book, the picture of astronaut doing lots of random stuff, it was also inspired by the photo release by NASA. The motive is not about the space exploration, but more about the end that we would not able to inhabit our own earth, the content is still on going else well the painting in also work on progress.