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Help! i have to make an abstract paint about a meaning for beauty?


it is for a contest, i really want to participate on it, can you help me please...
the paint has to be really creative and it has to explain well whta's the meaning for beauty in our society, or in general
thnx a ton!

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6 days ago
i prefer something abstract, not a landscape or something like a human


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 6 days ago
i prefer something abstract, not a landscape or something like a human i would swirl pretty colors of light blue and pink together, but then maybe interupt the easiness and flow of it all ith a splatter or dash of black or dark color, representing how the media and the world corrupt how people think of beauty. and make people try to believe beauty is only acceptable in one way, but the key is really that true beauty is anything unique What about a front on, slightly turned to the side, head and shoulders shot of an old ugly , sad woman, her face is cut in halve, (dissected) like a walnut you see the thickness of her skin as in the thickness of a walnut shell. Inside the skin/shell is the other half of her face, a beautiful young smiling woman with smooth skin. Hard for you to picture??? I wish i can show you the vision in my mind whats the meaning of beauty in our society is like defining the perfect human figure or what is beauty or beautiful to us
it could be a landscape or a seascape, it has boundless meaning When utilizing the primary colors into a bright composition. You could try impasto with palette knife effect, with dry brushing of pure color, giving it a bit of texture.

Another thing that works well, is the use of a single color.

Try looking up some Van Gogh.

Here I'm suggesting inspiration as his brush style is nice and broad and very adaptable in interpretation of abstraction, though he is an expressionist, lean over the fence to the abstract side of one of his paintings and magnify a 3"x 3" portion of one of his life size paintings.

Thats the style, now go outside and look for something interesting like, for example a sun flower, use an 1" x 1" view of that flower etc... there are so many way to accomplish what you want, or are expected to do.

Once, I was asked to do a landscape in art school, well I found an old knotted up willow tree on an open field, I scaled a 2" x 3" view section of this 40 foot high tree into a 30" x 40" canvas, it almost looked as if a master had painted it..Blurred multi colored back ground fed by a mountainous crater looking thing,..in truth it was a magnified study.

Thats art...or one aspect of many.

Experiment by looking first, you will find, and you'll end up turning in a great painting.

An addemdum Landscape is not the idea, the imagination to interpret what is around you. Extract the pieces then put them back together...or maybe...time is wasted and you require Art school rather than a forum.

If you don't get it, then it could be art is not your forte, you may be young enough to train for office work instead. okay I'd paint the ugliest painting you could using blacks, browns and a couple dots of reds. Use your fingers and use thick paint. Make it look like a mess and maybe even unfinished.....then title it "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

The meaning of beauty is subjective. For example, babies come out looking all shriveld, blue and crying....that's not "tyra banks" beautiful by any means. However to the parents, that blue bawling blob is the most beautiful thing they have ever seen.

If it's not against the rules could you glue a small mirror in the middle of your canvas and paint around it? So that the observer would face themselves......and be forced to decide whether they think T-H-E-Y are beautiful.

Good luck and have fun.

Get started on it now...and see what happens.