Garden
Title
Garden
Creator
Smale-Murillo, Scott
Abstract
Garden strives to reconcile the physicality of garden plants with the expressive nature of paint.
In this oil painting I borrowed colors from Van Gogh’s Irises in order to create my own version of a bed of flowers. The paint has been applied, pushed, pulled, smeared, removed, and applied again to destroy any visual resemblance to the work’s namesake, and yet a notion of the natural world still pervades it. Through a combination of happenstance and deliberate action, passages appear on the surface of the work that seem to flow into each other or float, but by contrast there are also places in which the paint appears to have been cut up or gouged into the piece. The dance of movements required to create this work are as much a part of Garden as the paint itself. Additionally, an overarching factor in the making of the piece was an attempt to capture the creative spirit which I believe underlies all works of art, and in this case is captured through the lens of an appreciation of the natural world.
In this oil painting I borrowed colors from Van Gogh’s Irises in order to create my own version of a bed of flowers. The paint has been applied, pushed, pulled, smeared, removed, and applied again to destroy any visual resemblance to the work’s namesake, and yet a notion of the natural world still pervades it. Through a combination of happenstance and deliberate action, passages appear on the surface of the work that seem to flow into each other or float, but by contrast there are also places in which the paint appears to have been cut up or gouged into the piece. The dance of movements required to create this work are as much a part of Garden as the paint itself. Additionally, an overarching factor in the making of the piece was an attempt to capture the creative spirit which I believe underlies all works of art, and in this case is captured through the lens of an appreciation of the natural world.
Date Submitted
2024
2024
Collection
Citation
Smale-Murillo, Scott , “Garden,” MU Libraries Digital Exhibits and Online Forums, accessed January 10, 2025, https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/items/show/199.
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