Summer Image For My Mother Analysis

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To look at art, you need time. Looking at art is just as difficult as making it; to fully know what an art piece can give you, you have to take the time to let it talk to you. As if you tell someone a story and tell them to tell someone else, but that someone else walks away mid-story. You are that someone else, the artist is giving a story to a canvas, and if you don’t give the canvas the same amount of time that the artist gave it, you won’t hear the whole story. Paintings that are abstractions are the most important applicant to this rule. They are the hardest to understand and are never truly felt the first time you look at them.
The title of this piece is called “Summer Image (For My Mother)” and is an abstraction by Jay DeFeo. “Summer
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Towards the bottom, near the highly contrasted white, there are a darker shade of orange drip like splotches of paint. As these drips could resemble the sweat that comes off from heat, it could also represent how we lose blood over the summer, cutting our feet on gravel and pricking our fingers on thumb tacks. There is a black border that contains the clusters of colors on the canvas. This border helps maintain the focal point of “Summer Image (For My Mother)”; the shapes that it creates are on purpose, otherwise there would be no reason to stop drawing them around the edges. Jay DeFeo only wanted to paint what has been painted. The starlight essence from the top half of the image almost shows the mind; how there is an infinite gap when given nothing to do over the summer, yet contained around society. The black border represents society, molding our minds to never actually think outside the box - or painting in this case. However, there isn’t a border towards the bottom right; this is to show that you can still fall out of sanity, into the world below. The blood drips fall into the white quadrilateral abyss with only a black bar above it to hold onto. As we go through life, we never quite understand how close to …show more content…
I love puzzles; puzzles give me something to do that takes my mind off of things, and after completing them, I come out smarter. I love to learn and so to figure out this painting means learning something I don’t already know. Jay DeFeo took a picture that is abstract and added it with a title that doesn’t match. It truly annoys me that it’s so far apart from other paintings with little to no explanation on why it’s like this. Jay DeFeo must have had an inside joke with her mother and they could have been laughing at the idea that later in the future people wouldn’t understand this piece if they ever found it. However, the meaning of this painting to me is quite different than what most people will see it as. Over the course of time that I have spent dwelling at its meaning, I’ve grown to love it. It feels like my own painting; this image has so much depth to it that isn’t seen by many people. It has changed the way I look at art; I used to see art as a pretty thing that has meaning. Until now, I never experienced that meaning. I love to think about life and all of its mysteries and this painting is just right for that. I wish to be a Indie Game Developer as a hobbyist, and in order to have a working job like that, you have to be creative. This piece of art forces me to get creative and feel the energy it’s giving me. I then turn that energy into inspiration gold. I also mourn for the ability to

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