Interview on Art and Architecture
Q. How and what kind of painting techniques do you use in your art?
A. This art is presented in an abstract fashion. It is not created with the intention of displaying it in an art gallery but rather as a sendoff for the dead and to appease supernatural beings. All paintings when observed carefully indicate a particular style of making them; this is mainly the hieratic style.
Paintings lean towards a religious aspect, with a lot of them depicting the gods. Figures shown in the picture are made mostly to show the social status of the person who is painted. The size of a human figure will mostly be smaller than that of a god. A monarch's painting will be more sophisticated than that of a person with lower status. Another feature is that a full figured monarch will be shown as having a perfect figure. Linear perspective is very much ignored in making the paintings, and a lot of enhancement is done to make the individual being painted look perfect.
Eyes and the upper body must be presented from the front. The limbs and head have to be in profile. Male paintings are made a shade darker than female ones. Gods come with animal heads painted on top of them. Only six colors are used in this art, red, green, black, blue, white and yellow. Each of the aforementioned colors comes with some symbolism to it, power, fire and shown by red, life by green, the sun by yellow, creation by Blue, purity obviously by white and death by black. Those are the details of my techniques and how they fit into the paintings.
Hieronymus Bosch
Q. How and what type of painting techniques did you use in your work
A. These paintings are made on a common theme, religion. Sin and folly are clearly portrayed in these paintings, which are all part of human nature. Pictures of people are conventional with the less standard feature of some demon or beast lurking to show the evil. Colors in these paintings are subtle with almost every painting coming with some red and yellow. A concoction of fantasy and apocalyptic chaos apparently is announced. The pictures are made to look surreal.
Depictions of Heaven and Hell bring out the gothic side of this art. Most of these paintings revolve around the ideas of human vulnerability to evil, attraction to sin, lust, and obscenity. Symbolism is key to making this art. Some pictures show half man half beast showing the two sides of human nature. Glowing color and fluidity in technique are applied a lot. Almost all of the scenes painted show an untenable situation when viewed bringing a fusion between a fantasy world and a world of reality, but the precision with which the painting is made pushes the viewer to ignore these boundaries and see what is depicted to be true. Unconscious elements express themselves consciously. This art is a philosophical depiction of reality and as such, the viewer should explore the limits of their imagination when looking at it. Two totally different realities and rationalities are put in the same frame. The dreamy setting of the paintings works towards this effect as there is endless possibilities inside a dream. These paintings are fictional with a touch of reality in them.
