For this art analysis I decided to visit the San Antonio Museum of Art. After an hour or so of visiting through the many and various exhibitions and galleries offered at the SAMA I stumbled upon a gallery that caught my attention, the Latin America Modern Contemporary exhibition. At the gallery the first art piece that I observed was “El Brujo de Malasia”. “El Brujo de Malasia” is an art piece from the Mexican artist Sergio Hernandez. “El Brujo de Malasia” is a painting composed of oil and sand on a linen fabric. The style by which Sergio Hernandez created his masterpiece is abstract expressionism; even though the abstract expressionist movement ended in the mid 1960’s, the movement became an inspiration for Hernandez. The painting appears
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According to the San Antonio Museum of Art, Hernandez, began his artistic education in the workshops of two very well known Mexican artists, Abraham Jimenez Lopez and Gilberto Aceves Navarro. Sergio Hernandez attended La Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico or the National Autonomous University of Mexico located in the Mexican capital of Mexico City. While attending the National Autonomous University of Mexico he enrolled at the National School of Plastic Arts located at the university itself. At the age of 18 he began studying at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art, which is also known as La Esmeralda. After his studies in college he lived in Paris. While living in Paris he studied and worked which not only strengthen his abilities as an artist but also became and influence for him to do the art that he does today. Although the movement by which his art is influenced from died out before he became a professional painter, it still inspired him to do his art based off from many of the masters of abstract expressionism such as Jackson Pollock and Mark …show more content…
This is the case for “El Brujo de Malasia”, the line used to create the figures is abstract and two-dimensional. There seems to be no implied line in the art as the figures are not detailed and have no composite details that allow the viewer to change their look. The lines in the painting are crucial information. Since the background is composed of different hues of red the black lines in the humans and their items really stand out in their dark value. This being an abstract piece of art it is implied that the shapes seen will be organic and have little to no actual geometric structures. The organic or non-geometric shapes can be seen through the various objects displayed throughout the linen fabric: guitars, humanoids, buckets, a figure in the far left of the painting that appears to be a light post infused with a trombone. Point is that the only geometric shapes that appear in “El Brujo de Malasia” are the sticks representing limbs in the characters and their spherical-shaped heads. An important element of art seen in the painting is the color; there is only two colors used in the painting, red and black. Yet, the two colors used display a plethora of shades and tints. In this case the red color carries a spectrum of hues that vary from a red-vibrant scarlet to a dark-gothic-blood-like red. This can be observed through various locations of the painting. The center of “El
According to the San Antonio Museum of Art, Hernandez, began his artistic education in the workshops of two very well known Mexican artists, Abraham Jimenez Lopez and Gilberto Aceves Navarro. Sergio Hernandez attended La Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico or the National Autonomous University of Mexico located in the Mexican capital of Mexico City. While attending the National Autonomous University of Mexico he enrolled at the National School of Plastic Arts located at the university itself. At the age of 18 he began studying at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art, which is also known as La Esmeralda. After his studies in college he lived in Paris. While living in Paris he studied and worked which not only strengthen his abilities as an artist but also became and influence for him to do the art that he does today. Although the movement by which his art is influenced from died out before he became a professional painter, it still inspired him to do his art based off from many of the masters of abstract expressionism such as Jackson Pollock and Mark …show more content…
This is the case for “El Brujo de Malasia”, the line used to create the figures is abstract and two-dimensional. There seems to be no implied line in the art as the figures are not detailed and have no composite details that allow the viewer to change their look. The lines in the painting are crucial information. Since the background is composed of different hues of red the black lines in the humans and their items really stand out in their dark value. This being an abstract piece of art it is implied that the shapes seen will be organic and have little to no actual geometric structures. The organic or non-geometric shapes can be seen through the various objects displayed throughout the linen fabric: guitars, humanoids, buckets, a figure in the far left of the painting that appears to be a light post infused with a trombone. Point is that the only geometric shapes that appear in “El Brujo de Malasia” are the sticks representing limbs in the characters and their spherical-shaped heads. An important element of art seen in the painting is the color; there is only two colors used in the painting, red and black. Yet, the two colors used display a plethora of shades and tints. In this case the red color carries a spectrum of hues that vary from a red-vibrant scarlet to a dark-gothic-blood-like red. This can be observed through various locations of the painting. The center of “El