Boduas Yellow Flower

Another aspect of Borduas, he sometimes included numbers in the titles of his paintings. At first he “numbered his works simply to create a personal inventory. Later, a numbered title corresponds to the date a canvas was painted or to its number in a sequence of paintings.” A second example of a surrealism automatism painting is “8.47 ou Les carquois fléchi” (Fig.2). The gigantic abstract oil canvas had the highest pigment levels, with widest choice of color, from red yellow and green; however the main subject of the painting is the yellow flower in the bucket. Theirs a clear hierarchy between the object and the depth of space in which it is placed; flowers are perhaps associated with beauty. Flowers also symbolize love.The tittle for (fig.2)
Consider the core essence of that quivers, quivers is a container of arrows, bolt or darts, which is an object of war, which significant hatred which is the opposite of the ideal of a flower in a container. “The object erupts; the ground penetrates the foreground; eruptions and grounds are increasingly textured ”. Nonetheless a flower in a container can also be a constant reminder of survival, and the continuation of life and growth. Plus the scent of a flower can leave a long lasting memor,however; due to the abstract oil canvas painting we are unable to detect the type of flowers it is. This, canvas, highlight that each flowers are closed to each other and are placed in the middle of the portraits to shows that they are at normed with their surrounding. The surroundings of the subject has a darker hue and sharp contrast of green, red, and blue, which makes the audience focus on the flowers. Due to the theme of the painting is based on war, the blue could suggest the color of the sky, red for blood and yellow for the flowers which they represents each individual that participated on wars. This painting suggests that we as a nation participate in war without realizing the effect it would have in the long