Week 2: Coloured Still life
The Great Divide
This piece is about the stigmatism and racial discrimination in the world.
Using juxtapositions of colour, shape and direction, the idea of one’s race being segregated by another’s, can be inferred from this picture. One side of the wall has a harmony of colours showing the unity of different races, religions and beliefs. Whereas the opposite has two bold colours of black & white discriminating the bouquet of colourful flowers. This is metaphorical for the discrimination and ostracism that some parts of the World face.
With the compartmentalisation of colours into their segmented squares, this piece is able to show the contrast between light and dark; peace and war, in a simplistic manner. Inspired from the Dutch Movement, De Stijl, the shapes and colours conflict with the long stalky black lines. These black lines covering the black checkered walls are to create a sense of anxiety due to its incompletion, unbalancedness and inequality, as they are skewed to the left, overlaying the rest of the image.
However, the colours are rebalanced by the bouquet of flowers as they anchor down the black stilted scaffold-like beams, perhaps trying to get through.
Finally, eye direction is centralised to a converged focal point in the middle of the page, the luminescent and glittery rose. As the rose is symbolic for love, the underlying objective of this picture is to enforce the ideology for peace, harmony and love in the World.
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