l.avramenko
Final piece for my A2 Art&Design coursework project called "What Is Love? "
Inspiration for my final piee I found in the true story happened two years ago in my hometown in the East of Ukraine:. one woman was walking with her daughter outside, because it was unbearable to stay inside their small apartment any more. The sirens were quiet and there were only sounds of shooting, which never stopped, somewhere on the other side of the town. It was a sunny day and a little girl with big scared eyes tried to imagine that the war didn’t exist. The sound of an incoming bomb broke the singing of the birds and the mother, without thinking, pushed her daughter to the ground and covered the child with her body. The woman didn’t survive. This is love. There were many such examples of love and sacrifice during the war in 2014 and in memory of them I have done my final piece.
To create my final work I put two people I knew into the pose required and took a photograph of them so that I could look at the proportions of the body, as well as the position of the light and shade. The idea of the picture is that a girl imagines her mother hugging her while she sleeps. Their pose has a double meaning – on the one hand it represents the simplicity of a child’s dreams (she just wants her mother to lay near her for one more time) and on the other hand it hints about the terrible way the mother died – by covering her daughter with her own body. At that awful moment they were also laying on the ground and the mother was hugging her daughter for the last time in her life. I don’t know what the little girl felt at that exact time… Maybe she fainted and her mind played a trick on her - that she was in bed sleeping with her mum, or maybe she knew what was happening and couldn’t believe it.
To show that this could be a part of her imagination and that she is distanced from it, I painted her on a separate piece of paper and cut her out. I used oils to bring out her realism. I painted the background with the same media to show that however it is her memory, she can still imagine how it felt to sleep in her bed, whereas the hug of her imaginary mother doesn’t feel real. It is unrepeatable. Therefore I depicted the mother in black and white in a stippling style. She looks realistic but on the other hand I wanted to create an effect of the person not belonging to our materialistic world any more.
To explain the reason why the mother is not present I added the splashes of red paint (being inspired by abstract impressionism) on top of her body which represents blood and death. I put the paint on the separate piece of plastic as insurance because I was very scared of spoiling my piece with the wrong movement of my hand.
This project takes a completely subjective point of view. I am not saying that it is correct, but this is just what I have realised after searching for an answer in people’s hearts and in real examples. Love is sacrifice.
Final piece for my A2 Art&Design coursework project called "What Is Love? "
Inspiration for my final piee I found in the true story happened two years ago in my hometown in the East of Ukraine:. one woman was walking with her daughter outside, because it was unbearable to stay inside their small apartment any more. The sirens were quiet and there were only sounds of shooting, which never stopped, somewhere on the other side of the town. It was a sunny day and a little girl with big scared eyes tried to imagine that the war didn’t exist. The sound of an incoming bomb broke the singing of the birds and the mother, without thinking, pushed her daughter to the ground and covered the child with her body. The woman didn’t survive. This is love. There were many such examples of love and sacrifice during the war in 2014 and in memory of them I have done my final piece.
To create my final work I put two people I knew into the pose required and took a photograph of them so that I could look at the proportions of the body, as well as the position of the light and shade. The idea of the picture is that a girl imagines her mother hugging her while she sleeps. Their pose has a double meaning – on the one hand it represents the simplicity of a child’s dreams (she just wants her mother to lay near her for one more time) and on the other hand it hints about the terrible way the mother died – by covering her daughter with her own body. At that awful moment they were also laying on the ground and the mother was hugging her daughter for the last time in her life. I don’t know what the little girl felt at that exact time… Maybe she fainted and her mind played a trick on her - that she was in bed sleeping with her mum, or maybe she knew what was happening and couldn’t believe it.
To show that this could be a part of her imagination and that she is distanced from it, I painted her on a separate piece of paper and cut her out. I used oils to bring out her realism. I painted the background with the same media to show that however it is her memory, she can still imagine how it felt to sleep in her bed, whereas the hug of her imaginary mother doesn’t feel real. It is unrepeatable. Therefore I depicted the mother in black and white in a stippling style. She looks realistic but on the other hand I wanted to create an effect of the person not belonging to our materialistic world any more.
To explain the reason why the mother is not present I added the splashes of red paint (being inspired by abstract impressionism) on top of her body which represents blood and death. I put the paint on the separate piece of plastic as insurance because I was very scared of spoiling my piece with the wrong movement of my hand.
This project takes a completely subjective point of view. I am not saying that it is correct, but this is just what I have realised after searching for an answer in people’s hearts and in real examples. Love is sacrifice.