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Mixed media (watercolor, acrylic, pen, Copic) on 250 g paper, 30 x 42 cm, Jun 2012
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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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This style is one I've never seen and I could look at this forever. The use of pen in this piece definitely attracts my gaze, but doesn't overpower.
I was about to say that the top right corner is lacking and that the absence of work in that area is distracting, but after taking several looks at this painting, I realize that it's perfect the way it is. Everything leads me to look at her eye. The relative plainness in the top right isn't a problem at all.
This is my first critique, so forgive me if it seems mindless. Long story short, this is sick
Now, I'd like to start off with my goal for this. One of my favorite things to do is to argue intelligently. Take a stand against another opinion. Regrettably for whomever it may be, jemejj is the only one who has taken a stand. Thankfully for me, I do not agree. This does not mean I'm attacking jemejj here. I am attacking his opinion. See the difference?
I've given this work five stars on all accounts for very good reasons. Your style of art is very distinctive, I haven't seen it anywhere else and it's quite brilliant for combining stark detail with slightly abstract concepts. This is also, singularly, a theme I have not seen. The entire thing simply took my breath away. Not literally, but it's pretty great.
Now, here's the way that I have interpreted this work: I don't believe this to be any sort of macabre illustration as suggested, I don't believe the wrapping to be a bandage or anything of the sort. I believe that to understand this work, one must look past the dripping paint to a clearer image. If it was truly a work of pain and suffering, the eye would be wrought with sadness, not crystal clear and staring with calm reason and poise. The cloth itself, while at first it may appear to be soaked through in blood, could not be a bandage. Clearly, to me at least, it is tied far too loosely (determined from the folds in the cloth, and the way it hangs), and besides that truly covers no discernible wound, as the blood soaks from no definite point. This all leads me to my opinion: this is an almost perfect image of a mask; a charade, even. An eye completely unyielding of what is truly felt, but spills forth not tears, but an overflow of emotion. This drips from all over her face, every aspect that is her. Even her mask, metaphorical and literal, which hides all but that eye, which even then is as stoic as a statue; or perhaps a drawing, more accurately. I love how it seems as though I can feel the seeping, the dripping of this work, as though it is a dynamic representation of calm in a storm.
Once again, I am terribly sorry for a lack of critique on so many done works, but I have endured a significant amount of trouble with summer school. I shall endeavor now to continue critiquing more frequently; as wherever someone else has lifted their opinion, I must be there to offer my challenge on its validity.
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