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Oil paint, acrylic paint on canvas
102x76 cm
2025
The aim of creating this piece is to ask questions. Splashes of orange paint creates a brand new tune and taste to the original, traditional drapery painting. This painting asks the question whether the use of medium that doesn’t require control nor skill defile the painting, or the act of ‘destroying’ and ‘ruining’ the painting elevates the artwork itself? Since the act challenges an artist’s work ethics while creating contrast between precision and wildness on the same canvas. A photo of the painting was taken before it was stained which raises the third question, are the two previous debates too small to matter since a near perfect replica of the intended outcome already exists? I was inspired to create this piece as a debate and an observation; in the era which the skill to create and an artist’s participation in the artworks are often weak in their presence or dismissed altogether, and majority appreciate an artwork from what it says rather than what it is.