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Artist: Julie O'Sullivan
Size (h w d): 72 x 108 in
Medium: Acrylic on unstretched canvas
Subject Matter: Abstract
Price $1,800
When I paint, I do not go in with an image or intention of what I want to create. I hang a raw canvas on the wall like an animal skin that I am tanning with gesso. From there I channel my environment and let the colors and patterns develop authentically.
With this piece, I hung and tanned the hide and started painting as the protests were happening right outside. I could hear the shouts for democracy and cries for freedom. I was anxious and painting in short, dark strokes with a paint brush, which I rarely use.
I was offered the use of a scaffolding, so I switched gears and started painting the top. The environment at the time was peaceful and I thought about what was happening around me to the people of various colors. The back ground was a hot yellow orange, like the fire in the people over the great atrocities that are being committed against our friends and neighbors.
Atop this heat, we are all colors intertwined together, feeling the heat and reacting to it. Our flag, the symbol of our freedom, has been turned upside down and our democracy is dying. We are no longer the land of the free, that freedom is being taken from us.
Let the blue democracy shine through and unite the colors that make this country so great.
Artist: Julie O'Sullivan
Size (h w d): 72 x 108 in
Medium: Acrylic on unstretched canvas
Subject Matter: Abstract
Price $1,800
When I paint, I do not go in with an image or intention of what I want to create. I hang a raw canvas on the wall like an animal skin that I am tanning with gesso. From there I channel my environment and let the colors and patterns develop authentically.
With this piece, I hung and tanned the hide and started painting as the protests were happening right outside. I could hear the shouts for democracy and cries for freedom. I was anxious and painting in short, dark strokes with a paint brush, which I rarely use.
I was offered the use of a scaffolding, so I switched gears and started painting the top. The environment at the time was peaceful and I thought about what was happening around me to the people of various colors. The back ground was a hot yellow orange, like the fire in the people over the great atrocities that are being committed against our friends and neighbors.
Atop this heat, we are all colors intertwined together, feeling the heat and reacting to it. Our flag, the symbol of our freedom, has been turned upside down and our democracy is dying. We are no longer the land of the free, that freedom is being taken from us.
Let the blue democracy shine through and unite the colors that make this country so great.