Pavel Tchelitchew was born September 21 1898 In Moscow and died July 31 1957. Pavel created an oil painting during the period of surrealism. Surrealism is the movement when artist made art to represent their unconscious thoughts and dreams. Hide and seek was created by Tchelitchew sometime between June 1940-1942 in Vermont during world war 2, again during the period of surrealism. Pavel believed his art to be “a kind of metamorphism as a magic which can transform any visible object into a whole series of objects.” The painting is displayed in the MoMA currently on the 4th floor of the paint and sculpture section, before then the painting was part of the MoMA’s solo exhibition in 1942. With his art Pavel wanted to bring to life the journey
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I intercept the piece indifferent ways for starters I see the painting being the tree of life because of all the children’s faces that is hidden and displayed throughout the painting and then the tree that has a foot painted into the bottom which isn’t realistic and could be displaying that the tree has or is giving life to the children throughout the painting. The painting has a huge tree in the middle that has veins that pop out of the tree as well as the foot at the bottom of the tree where the roots should be giving off the illusion that the tree has life. So as not to only be growing as a tree but as a human, where that human may be a child and grows bigger into an adult. This theory of mines connects and goes back to the fact that Pavel did research on the growth of not only trees but children as …show more content…
When I look at the painting a few of the children’s faces are seen very clearly and then there are hidden faces and bodies that I did not notice until after looking at the painting for more than a few minutes. Not only was some of these children hidden in my opinion but also Pavel does a really good job at blending in the human like features that he has included in his painting. In order for me to see the veins in the painting I had to notice the other human features of the tree such as the foot as well as the hands that are hidden in the painting and then I realized that Pavel didn’t just add in random lines to be more abstract but that he was actually creating the blue like pattern that could be seen through the skin of a human that comes from the
I intercept the piece indifferent ways for starters I see the painting being the tree of life because of all the children’s faces that is hidden and displayed throughout the painting and then the tree that has a foot painted into the bottom which isn’t realistic and could be displaying that the tree has or is giving life to the children throughout the painting. The painting has a huge tree in the middle that has veins that pop out of the tree as well as the foot at the bottom of the tree where the roots should be giving off the illusion that the tree has life. So as not to only be growing as a tree but as a human, where that human may be a child and grows bigger into an adult. This theory of mines connects and goes back to the fact that Pavel did research on the growth of not only trees but children as …show more content…
When I look at the painting a few of the children’s faces are seen very clearly and then there are hidden faces and bodies that I did not notice until after looking at the painting for more than a few minutes. Not only was some of these children hidden in my opinion but also Pavel does a really good job at blending in the human like features that he has included in his painting. In order for me to see the veins in the painting I had to notice the other human features of the tree such as the foot as well as the hands that are hidden in the painting and then I realized that Pavel didn’t just add in random lines to be more abstract but that he was actually creating the blue like pattern that could be seen through the skin of a human that comes from the