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More Trinity-Anne artworks

edit David Janes 2006-10-21 13:24 UTC 3 comments

Definitely moving into a baroque phase here...

 
 

Comment #1Ronk

2006-10-23 18:25:47

Interesting - much more use of vivid colour than her earlier work. She is continuing to develop the "primitive" or "naive" style which has become her trademark. This is characterized by a lack of depth perception and perspective in the images aswell as the eyes-front facing out immobile aspect on the firgures.

Most interestingly she seems to be experiementing with some counter-intuitive concepts of visual layout. The "Six Flowers" breaks the Upperleft to lower right eye scanning pattern and forces you to go in the opposite way. The red and yellow flowers are quite well positioned to that purpose. Despite its minimal appearance this is a very interesting piece of work. Definitely warrants a place in the canon (on the fridge) of T-A's work to date.

I am not sure if "Child in Field with Flowers" is baroque but it certainly has a wack of stuff going on and is very tightly packed in. In alot of ways it does hearken back to the 17th century. If we interpret smiling hearts as cherubim there is alot which is similar. The main figure surrounded by the classical images of gods/dieties which provide insight on the "story" of the picture. The birds and insects are a nice touch. Interestingly the insect is side on and this might suggest the direction T-A's work will be headed in the next six months as she starts to experiment more with figures in motion.

"Child after Chemotherapy" is the least interesting of the three for me but again she is using colour effectively and obviously has the upper left - lower right eye motion concept down pat. Because it uses this convention instead of breaking it this is a less challenging image. The sun in the upper left catches our eye and we follow dow to the bald girl and onto the flower which I assume she is about to pick.

 I am no expert but one of the really fun things to do is to mix colours to make new ones. Does Trinity-Ann know about the colour wheel yet? red goes into blue goes into yellow goes into red? See if you can teach her that from the three colours you can make all the other colours. My Mom is an artist. In St john's they call her the "Queen of Colour" because of the way she mixes and experiements with it. It is a wonderful skill to have and from her pictures (and despite what might sound like me making fun) it looks like she is having lots of fun.

Comment #2David

2006-10-24 09:20:45

"Chemo Child" is actually a few months old; as you have guessed there's been a stylistic change ... markers are key. Interestingly, she was worried they wouldn't scan. I think the thicker more vivid style may be in part due to the influence of other children in her class (her school allows quite a lot of time for art).

You'll also note some halloween motifs in the first picture.

Trinity-Anne's pretty big on mixing colors ... unfortunately she's mostly producing black-brown messes.

 

Comment #3terrence

2006-10-24 18:49:42

Trinity-Anne seems to be a very determined child; it takes persistence to complete drawings like these.  Paternal pride is in order.

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