Maerol Escobar Art Review
Art Review The work of art that capture my attention is a lithography created by the Venezuelan painter Marisol Escobar. She born in Paris, France on May 22, 1930 and died at the age of 85 in New York in April 30, of this current year. It is important to highlight at this point that this piece of art does not possess a tittle, but was created in the year of 1992. The painting is located in El Paso Museum of Art located, in the downtown arts district El Paso, Texas. The painting focuses in my opinion in two aspects that are connected together to share a historical message. The Native American and the horse two iconic figures of the U.S history gathered together in one image. As a Native American image, the Horse image implications consolidate
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With regards to the colors used, it is important to highlight that from a psychological perspective, the color brown is a serious, down-to-earth color signifying stability, structure and support and on the other hand the color black relates to the hidden, the secretive and the unknown, and as a result it creates an air of mystery. It keeps things bottled up inside, hidden from the world. Besides, the texture that the style of the brush strokes without a rhythmic pattern realistically imitates details like the hair of the native American man and also they provide a unique approach to the font, which dominates the major part of this piece. Also, the form in which both the faces of the man and the horse are looking to the front gives a sense of proudness. Overall, this is a great representation of the meaningful legacy of horse spirits within the Native American Cultures.
However, although this piece is a lithograph as announced on its description, which means that is a copy of the original work of the artist, it holds the same legacy as the original piece. Even though, Marisol Escobar lived in a total different era of the wild west or even before, the style of her piece resembles a variation type of pop art, which was her specialty during the last 20th
With regards to the colors used, it is important to highlight that from a psychological perspective, the color brown is a serious, down-to-earth color signifying stability, structure and support and on the other hand the color black relates to the hidden, the secretive and the unknown, and as a result it creates an air of mystery. It keeps things bottled up inside, hidden from the world. Besides, the texture that the style of the brush strokes without a rhythmic pattern realistically imitates details like the hair of the native American man and also they provide a unique approach to the font, which dominates the major part of this piece. Also, the form in which both the faces of the man and the horse are looking to the front gives a sense of proudness. Overall, this is a great representation of the meaningful legacy of horse spirits within the Native American Cultures.
However, although this piece is a lithograph as announced on its description, which means that is a copy of the original work of the artist, it holds the same legacy as the original piece. Even though, Marisol Escobar lived in a total different era of the wild west or even before, the style of her piece resembles a variation type of pop art, which was her specialty during the last 20th