Amy Sol Research Paper

Amy Sol was born in South Korea in 1981. Her father worked for the U.S. Air Force, so her family frequently travelled between her mother’s homeland of South Korea and Las Vegas, Nevada throughout her childhood. Mr. and Ms. Sol state that Amy drew before she began to write. She now lives on the outer edge of Las Vegas.
Her pop surrealist art exhibits animals, strange plants, girls, and mythical creatures. Her soft-toned paintings depict asian inspired themes. Sol states that living in the desert helps her imagination, sometimes walking around at night, calling these walks under the stars transporting. She owes much of her own development to Jessie Willcox Smith, Charles Robinson, and Kay Nielson due to their intriguing tapestry-like illustrations …show more content…
Over the years perfecting her technique she has also developed her own palette, using primarily muted colors. Rather than painting on canvas, Sol works on wood panels with acrylic, claiming that her works are developed by the pattern the wood has. She uses the pattern, grain, and color of the wood to create the image, as it reminds her to keep things moving. She begins a painting with a wash, and then uses multiple layers of acrylic and glaze, finishing with a final layer of glaze to seal the work in. Despite her preference to wood and acrylic, Sol has recently been expanding her horizons more, creating works in oils on cotton paper. Amy Sol is a member of the Pop-Surrealist community, which began as the Lowbrow community in the late 1970s in Los Angeles. Its underground roots are connected to tattoo, illustration, a street art, and most of these artists are self-taught like Sol. As the community grew the art became more refined, becoming what is called Pop-Surrealism. Over the 40 years of this movement it has gone from unrecognized as fine art to respectable and acclaimed, including many styles, some as fine and similar in style to Van Gogh such as Todd Schorr’s works and more comic like art such as