Monday, February 28, 2011

"Wartime Misery Self Portrait 1945"-Critique #1

Title: "Watime Misery Self Portrait 1945"
Artist: Janos Pirk
Medium: Oil Paint on Canvas
 Notes: weak handstructures, holding eye open with hand (rundown), holding knife in his hand, sick looking skin coloring, blue tattered shirt put on pole to look like a flag (represents loss of hope) *uses complementary colors, blue and orange, to draw attention to the blue shirt against the orange background* 
Background info: born: 1903, died: 1989, lived: Hungary

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