PUNISHMENT

Here we my definition of human outcome, demonstrated in a romanticism artwork of mine. In this collage I have used paint, magazine paper and gel-medium to create an image of a spaceship attacking earth. First i coated the wood board in a purple to darker purple gradient, resembling the contrast of light to dark as most romanticism pieces do. I created this gradient through dry-brushing, painting the lighter colours over the darker ones. After this was finished I dry-brushed clouds in above the earth, to resemble the heavens. The next step was to create my spaceship and place my picture of earth that I found in a magazine. I needed to used various pieces of paper in different colours to create my spaceship. I think it works well as the focal point of my piece. It also really balances the composition well with all the "eye candy" in the bottom part of the piece. This was created with orange, yellow and red lines, creating that triangle composition down the piece. The only thing I would have done differently if I were to redo this is to flip the triangle composition, and make only lines coming from the spaceship touch earth.

I was trying to convey a big message with this piece. Romanticism is always based off of a message, or an opinion, and I did this to match romanticism. The clouds resembling heaven show that the spaceship is coming from what we think of as "heaven". I believe that the traditional outlook on god is incorrect, and that people were visited by aliens in the biblical era. "God" and "Aliens" are the same thing; and people do not realize this. In my piece I'm showing the aliens punishing humanity for their ignorance and corruptness. Just as a picture of Jesus or "God" coming down from the heavens to punish earth; but I'm showing gods and aliens as the same beings. The lines show the punishment on earth, and the dark purple being on the side with earth resembles humanity's darkness.

Overall I am proud of the piece. I believe it shows what I intended to convey, and still gives much room for self-interpretation. The photo shown has glare on the top portion, due to the lights in order to photograph it. I believe it made it look better actually and i would try to add that effect through paint or some such if I were to ever do this piece again.