My Semester Final
"The Empty Mask" By René Magritte
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My plan for the Final
My goal for my final was to capture the window like display of the painting, while also focusing on the frame and background of the painting as it allows the familiar but distant memory like pictures that sit in the frames to be on the forefront.
Reflection
This project gave a secondary requirement than the typical piece's need to just create an idea and execute, this time I needed to interpret.
The planning for this project went though many iterations, as I tried to evaluate what part of the painting I wanted to be most prominent. I also faced issues with trying to translate a painting of a painting into a useable ceramic piece, I wanted it to be more than a static scene recreation, and rather a interpretation of the essence and feeling that the painting gives.
Why I chose "The Empty Mask" by René Magritte
René Magritte is a artist who was a staple of the surrealist movement, using familiar shapes and objects that go against normalcy and create unique scapes that extend halfway into reality.
René Magritte's "The Empty Mask" has 2 versions, one with the images in the frames, and one with just words that sit in the frames.
This contrast immediately drew me into this painting, although I mainly became fascinated with the one including hazy and familiar images in the frames, as its a perfect example of one of my favorite parts of René Magritte's style, the familiarity surrounded and enveloped by surrealism.
