Walking into the Princeton University Art Museum, the first gallery displays an exceptional acrylic on canvas, Tan Tan Bo. The painting stands as a huge work of art almost covering an entire wall. The vibrant colors of the work drew my eyes to the radiant painting. The grand size and the colors of this work popped out to me and made me stare at it for a while. Its complexity with so much happening almost everywhere you look catches your eyes and makes you wonder. In a gallery surrounded by darker, less abstract paintings, Tan Tan Bo really captures one’s attention. Not to mention the variety of colors in this painting that really caught my eyes at first glance. At first, I was looking around the room with all the other works of art and I looked
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There are many elements and principles of design that are incorporated into this due to all the different scenes occurring in the same painting. To start with the obvious one, there is great variety in the shapes and colors of each section in the painting. There is great emphasis on the two creatures’ faces in the middle of the painting. Even inside the mouths of the creatures there are very detailed scenes. Portrayed as eyes, there is movement created especially by the bottom left eye with the multiple rings. There is also movement created on the top left corner of the painting in what appears to be the rain and storm that the tremendous weather brought Japan in 2011. There are numerous places in Tan Tan Bo where different sizes and types of lines and shapes are painted. There are both organic and geometric shapes, but the majority are organic because of the chaos and unorganized picture. The texture looks very smooth considering it is a painting. A lot of the space in this painting is being occupied by a subject due to the many scenes it includes. There is balance created in this work of art because even though there are main subjects displayed in the middle, the artist placed about an equal amount of shapes on both sides of the focal point. Because of the much variety in shapes, colors, and lines in this painting, the artist incorporated mostly all elements of design. Tan Tan Bo was made with acrylic, which is a water-soluble paint that becomes water-resistant when dried.
Originally in 2014, Tan Tan Bo was displayed in Gagosian Gallery in New York City where it was undeniably the most visited work of art in a dynamic exhibition. From there, a “prominent Princeton alumnus and his wife” bought the painting and lended it to the Princeton University Art Museum, where it is housed today (Princeton University Art Museum). Tan Tan Bo is said to be one of
There are many elements and principles of design that are incorporated into this due to all the different scenes occurring in the same painting. To start with the obvious one, there is great variety in the shapes and colors of each section in the painting. There is great emphasis on the two creatures’ faces in the middle of the painting. Even inside the mouths of the creatures there are very detailed scenes. Portrayed as eyes, there is movement created especially by the bottom left eye with the multiple rings. There is also movement created on the top left corner of the painting in what appears to be the rain and storm that the tremendous weather brought Japan in 2011. There are numerous places in Tan Tan Bo where different sizes and types of lines and shapes are painted. There are both organic and geometric shapes, but the majority are organic because of the chaos and unorganized picture. The texture looks very smooth considering it is a painting. A lot of the space in this painting is being occupied by a subject due to the many scenes it includes. There is balance created in this work of art because even though there are main subjects displayed in the middle, the artist placed about an equal amount of shapes on both sides of the focal point. Because of the much variety in shapes, colors, and lines in this painting, the artist incorporated mostly all elements of design. Tan Tan Bo was made with acrylic, which is a water-soluble paint that becomes water-resistant when dried.
Originally in 2014, Tan Tan Bo was displayed in Gagosian Gallery in New York City where it was undeniably the most visited work of art in a dynamic exhibition. From there, a “prominent Princeton alumnus and his wife” bought the painting and lended it to the Princeton University Art Museum, where it is housed today (Princeton University Art Museum). Tan Tan Bo is said to be one of