Kay Moe
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Class of: 2027
Major: Product Design BFA
Medium: Oil paint on stretched canvas
Faculty: Margaret Krug
Prompt: Create an oil painting on stretched canvas based off of a visualization from a written poem that utilizes a color scheme taught in "An Artist's Handbook".
This piece is based on a visualization drawn from an excerpt of “Heart-shaped Box” by Kurt Cobain. The intention of the piece is to explore the emotions that arise around longing and abandonment and is part of a personal over-arching theme for all paintings produced during the course. For this painting, we were prompted to use a color scheme as taught during our lecture. The colors in this painting are part of an analogous color scheme, ranging from red to orange. The usage of red-based tones is representative of simultaneous anger and desire for affection that can result from abandonment. This choice was a result of translating written, intangible concepts into visual work, which was a concept we learned from in-class examination of various artists and their use of subtleties in color and technique to imply emotion.