Well I've been concentrating on this artist lately named Pieter Bruegel. While are Art looks completely different we have a lot in common in our sincere purpose. Above is his work called "Icarus". Farmers are shown working in pastoral fields while a tiny Icarus falls to his death in the background sky. Bruegel is famous for painting peasants and painting bucolic foreground with strange, sinister objects in the background of the painting.
While Bruegel and My paintings are very different visually, we are very similar in the intent and message that we are trying to perceive. For my artist statement I would like to tie in the ideas in that both of our paintings are really up to who views them. Like mine and Bruegel you can really focus on the bad or the reality, In my paintings its obvious, I like to use a lot of "ugly" textures like duct tape, ripped materials, anything that I can find. It's really a choice in what you see is beautiful. I like the idea that you can make anything beautiful in someway, just as in life. There are painful, ugly things but there are also natural beautiful things and these are the things that must co exist in life.
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