Momentum
Dipti G.
Acrylic Paint
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This piece was first based on a collage I made with magazine cutouts. Surrealist paintings inspired me to make a similar work, and I mainly chose figures and buildings. I appreciated drawing architecture and wanted to combine it with my interest in displaying human expression and motion. This piece was done completely in acrylic paint on a 25-inch by 38-inch piece of stretched canvas that I gessoed myself. I wanted to play with unreal color to enhance the strained emotion shown in the piece, along with strange additions to show the complexity and confusion in life, such as the deer in the bottom right corner. The running figures represent how life is a constant moving battle, the cities demonstrating the need to constantly achieve a better life, a dream life, and the face in the top right shows the expression of both pain and laughter, leaving the viewer to wonder which emotion resonates better with the painting and with their lives. The abstract blocks show the parts of life we have not discovered yet, how they are yet to be depicted, and until then, just figures in our imagination. This piece evokes the confusion one feels in the direction their life is going, yet the constant need to keep pushing through and creating progress to make themselves feel stable.
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Creativity is unique perspective of how one views the world and demonstrates it through immense thought and talent. One's creativity cannot be replaced or compared with anothers because it is fully understood only by its possesor. Creativity is what keeps the earth spinning and inspires new generations to create more.
