Full Bloom Lazzari Analysis

Full Bloom Some may say it's winter while others may say it's summer, but in Margaret Lazzari's painting "Full Bloom" it's always spring. Lazzari grew up in Saint Luis and has taught painting lessons at The University of Southern California since the age of 33. She has won an artist award for Lifetime Achievement, was subject for an exhibition in Riverside California and received a National Endowment for Artist fellowship. She's not only a painter, but a professor and author as well. In 2011, when she released her painting "Full Bloom", she was set to accomplish abstract nature in it's best forms and that's precisely what she did. Taking a look back at the historical value of the painting, the techniques she used gave a greater perception of abstract reality. By gracefully placing each stroke of paint it allows the eye to feel emotion from up-close and even more from afar.
Using a 74 by 110 sized canvas, Lazzari formed layers upon layers of acrylic paint to transform what appears to be a flower at full bloom, the peak of its life. Although it is uncertain what particular type …show more content…
"Full Bloom" falls into two categories of abstract art, light-related and gestural. Light-related abstraction is when the artist uses color and light to distract the art from reality, Lazzari uses this form by the variety of vibrate colors proportioned among then shadows and petals of the painting. Gestural abstraction is a form of expressionism and it used by applying paint in unusual ways, such as the techniques used for the erosion in "Full Bloom."
"Full Bloom" speaks to our inner thoughts in a way only we can understand, it creates a sense of peace whether is sorrow of bliss. Just taking once glance at the storm of colors automatically sends our minds to some place better than our own, some place where its always spring, summer, autumn or winter, a place where our thoughts become their own