Final Project - Artist Visualization

For my final project i created a pieced based on the technique used by Roberto Matta. He focused on surrealism and automatism though his depiction of "inscapes," complex cosmic scenes. his technique required oil paints blending to create depth, but without access to oil paint and failing with the use of acrylic paint, i decided to used colored pencils to show the that artist blended the subjects in the image. The image i created using the artists style is created with colored, and ebony pencil that focuses on warm hues. The use of shading and the color scheme creates depth, indicating that a landscape is depicted. When i first look at the piece, my eye starts at the round figure at the top. From there i travel down the black the dark piece stemming from the round object, and to the colorful crescent object at the bottom. From there i go up the left border and across to the right side.

Roberto Matta is an incredible artist who focused on surrealism and automatism. He would depict the impossible with the use of multi-dimensional landscapes, often with no meaning. His later work had political and social aspects, but his more popular inscapes did not so i tried to incorporate my own meaning. It is very difficult to catch on but i tried to vaguely show the destruction of forest fires. On the ground of the piece, i tried to depict ash and the random figures on the foreground appear to have a form of fire. Since Matta's inscapes represented foreign lands and dimensions, i altered the real objects i was depicting. The light source of the image is supposed to resemble an eye with a tear, this represents how everyone sees what is burning but many people aren't phased by the importance and destruction of fire.