The abstract painting known as Obscure Variety 2 was done by a painter known as Maitreyii. Many of her paintings are inspired by nature and its surroundings. She uses a mixture of acrylic and oil-based paints to carry out her ideas onto her paintings, which is what she does to create Rainbow Beauty. Her current artwork consists of surreal imagery combined with geometric compositional elements.
When one first sees the painting there is a sense of structure and fluidity. It also projects a sense of direction. Structure because of the straight lines that make out geometric shapes. Fluidity because of the curved lines that stretch across the painting. Sense of direction because following one curve leads you to another and so on, guiding you through the painting. The emotions of confidence and strength are portrayed through the curved shapes soaring out and above the geometric shapes that lie to the side or behind these curved shapes. Maitreyii uses these shapes to provoke a form of partnership between curved and straight figures, having them work together as one in this painting.
The Rainbow Beauty painting implies color in two ways. One can clearly see the idea of warm and cool colors transitioning from left to right, having the warm scheme on the left and cool on the right. The mixture of warm colors consists of reds, yellows and oranges; while the cool theme of color consists of the mixture between greens and blues. Furthermore, Maitreyii uses color schemes such as complimentary colors. She uses greens and reds as compliments, and blues and greens as well. One can also say that the choice of color and its placement affects the direction of where the light seems to be coming from. In the painting, the yellows and bright oranges are used in the bottom right hand corner and then the colors begin to darken as one continues towards the middle of the painting. In addition, along the top middle half of the painting you see the greens mixed in with blues, grays, and yellows but also patches of white seem to come through giving the impression that there is a light behind the painting wanting to shine through.
Besides the idea of color, the idea of space also impacts the painting as well. The major factor that is used in the painting is overlapping. The shapes in Maitreyii’s painting are on top of and under each other giving the sense of depth in the piece of art. Without this factor the painting would just look like shapes separately placed on a piece of paper. The idea of overlapping seems to be Maitreyii’s style of painting. Many of her pieces of artwork have different shapes and lines overlapping one another, but not just in the shapes but also in the color. She blends her colors very well and overlaps them creating many layers of paints creating shadows.
Maitreyii’s Rainbow Beauty has many elements that make a design, an artwork appealing to the eye. She uses a variety of techniques to create depth, the sense of light, as well as using color schemes to bring life to the painting.
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Elements of Design Overlays
To begin the process, overlays were created based on some of the elements of design. If these six different traces are put on top of the painting they match perfectly with their corresponding lines and shapes. The six elements that were identified are symmetry, both asymmetrical and approximate, as well as unity through variety, horizontal and vertical lines, and finally shape. For the next step, some of these overlays will be placed on top of one another to create a final combination of overlays.
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