Dohgyoung Ahn Analysis

I once took a Psychology course at Purdue that expanded my curiosity of how the mind operates. The human mind is a complex and intricate machine that is the pivotal foundation of our everyday thought process. As I was searching for a gallery to visit this week, I was astounded to realize I have never been to Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts before. Compared to the Engineering buildings, Pao Hall is more imaginative and aesthetic, a conclusion I easily derived based upon the decorative sculptures outside the building. Upon arriving at the Patti and Rusty Rueff Gallery, I was pleasantly surprised to see DohGyoung Ahn’s paintings in the West Gallery. When viewing DohGyoung Ahn’s Negotiating Duality, one can see a theme of fragmentation with a hint of darkness. Dohgyoung Ahn excels in visualizing and preserving the immaterial and ephemeral conversations that take place within the minds. The artworks of Dohgyoung Ahn provoke a sense of apprehensiveness through articulated disfigurement of the human body and stimulate an intense representation of fragmented internal dialogues. The subject matter of Ahn’s paintings involve
The style of Negotiating Duality is homogenous to Picasso’s disconcerting and unconventional paintings. My attempt to ascertain and compare the two style of paintings can be condensed into contrasting Ahn’s work to Picasso’s masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. In Les Demoisellse d’Avignon, arguably Picasso’s magnum opus, the women have menacing and unproportioned body shapes. Likewise, Ahn’s paintings showcase twisted arms, incomplete torsos, and abnormal heads, all eerily disconnected. Many of Pablo Picasso’s artworks are enshrined as the epitomes of the Cubism art movement. Both Picasso’s and Ahn’s artworks are unorthodox paintings; Nevertheless, both prove that however bizarre a painting is, it can be still be enticing and