Kirkegaard with Flowers Painting

Kierkegaard with Flowers by Eliza Yacheva This colourful artwork aims to "express the openess of Kierkegaard‘s mind and represent his flowering existentialist thoughts" according to the painting‘s author Dominic Cooper. The personage‘s face is surrounded by numerous of flowers, all painted in extremely vivid colour. The background consists of eye-grabbing saturated red – an approach that is often used by Japanese artists such as Hokusai during the late 19th century. This portrait strikes with individualism. The emphasis is put on the unusual choice of colour which is so well combined that it accomplishes a dream-like feeling. The composition includes both primary and complimentary colours and enhances the visual sensation. The style is similar to many other depictions from the art movement of Fauvism where the focus is on strong sharp colour rather on the representational and realistic values. Henri Matisse‘s paintings Woman with a hat and Green Stripe reveal a similar technique of thick impasto, use of wild brush strokes and fragmentation of colour. They both have a sketchy quality and a courageous blue outlining of faces. These elements helped to support Matisse‘s avant-garde Fauvist philosophy. The iconography of the artwork reveals the complex mind of the Danish philospher Søren Kierkegaard who is in fact considered to be the first existentialist. Much of his work deals with individualism and highlights the importance of human choice. He argues that "subjectivity is truth" and "truth is subjectivity" which brings up a peculiar paradox about how one interacts with facts and reality. These philosophical playful thoughts are in coexistence with Dominic Cooper‘s choice of painting approach and collectively, the intellectual concept of the artwork is created.

Painting:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:9 W x 10.5 H x 1 D in

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