the
bald head from cuba
I wanted to
create an image that had the complexity and intricacy of the paintings
by the old masters like Bosch and Bruegel. Something that conveyed
the experience of hallucinating on mushrooms rather than the patterns
you usually see on mushrooms. A drawing with smooth, abstracted, yet
legible organic forms, in a surrealist kind of way; that was overall,
nice to look at and a bit different to the usual contemporary rubbish
mass-produced by lazy commercial art school graduates that make no
sense and lack sufficient detail to keep the viewer interested for
longer than 5 minuites. The purpose of art is to be pleasing to the
eye, that conveys emotion, is original, and leaves the viewer with
something to think about. I have noticed that most contemporary art
is made in less than 100 hours, is merely abstracted reality based
off the style of other contemporary artists; in this way striving
to be regular, and portraying basic ideas at best shrouded in ambiguity.
the
bald head from cuba