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Painting / Contemporary
Currently Available for Sale: 1
16" H x 20" W x 0.5" D x 1 lbs
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In preparation for the 150th anniversary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, The Met invited people to submit artwork to celebrate. I wasn't able to finish this in time for submission, but I'm happy I went through the exercise of thinking about what to create that could possibly depict the joy I get walking through all the different galleries (prior to COVID19, I went to The Met every Friday night after work). I thought it would be impossible to capture the breadth of all The Met has, so instead I chose to capture the essence of art to me: color, light, shape, contrast, composition.
This is a painting depicting a stained glass window with 150 in the "lead" holding the "glass" arranged as a color-wheel. I choose to paint a thick border of black on the canvas to more accurately depict the window-frame that holds the stained-glass in place (this is not a frame).
Year Created
2019
Colors
BlackRedYellowBlueOrangeGreenPurpleGray
Materials & Tools
Acrylic
Search Terms
ContemporaryStained GlassColor WheelExpressionismWindow
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Bernardica Sculac
New York, USA
As for my artistic outlook, I enjoy beauty all around me. I choose to LOOK for beauty everywhere: it could be flowers, or the play of light in a cityscape, or the myriad of colors of a crashing ocean wave. When I create art, I am trying to express how and why something is beautiful to me.
Most of my work has been representational rather than abstract. However recently I started exploring how I can weave my visual art with my other artistic pursuit: music. I've been performing as a mezzo soprano singer for 25 years, and recently started to depict how a particular piece of music makes me feel.
As such my newest focus is to create paintings about music. I have as inspiration, composer Modest Mussorgsky's orchestral work "Pictures at an Exhibition" depicting his experience of walking through a gallery. I'm working in the other direction--music interpreted as paintings. I know this is not a new idea. But trying to depict what I feel when I hear musical favorites and sharing that vision is new for me. My hope is to create an emotional experience for the viewer: I hope they like my paintings on their own; but I also hope they listen to the music that inspired the paintings. I think all of us would benefit from more art and music. I hope people will enjoy my "music as paintings" series.