Video: Drawings with stains from juice, tea and coffee. Experimental painting by German artist Angela Otto
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
After spilling tea on a sketchbook, splashing orange juice on a fresh white tablecloth, planting a coffee stain on a blouse or trousers, people are usually upset and rush to wash the spoiled thing as soon as possible in order to get rid of the ugly shapeless stains. Everyone does this - but not a young German artist with a long, beautiful name. Angela Mercedes Donna Otto … She treats every speck with tenderness, loves every puddle of coffee or traces of spilled juice. Moreover, the girl deliberately stains white sheets of paper with drinks, and then plunges into contemplation, meditating for hours on the stained albums and notebooks with which her studio is littered. And then he starts to work - and after a while strange chaotically scattered blots from various drinks acquire meaningful forms and images, turning into amazing paintings that brought Angela Otto popularity. Angela Otto's experimental painting is based on the psychological term "apophenia". He describes the phenomenon of the human mind to determine the connection, to consider something in common in seemingly scattered details, and in the case of painting "for breakfast" - to see figures and shapes even in such a chaotic and meaningless set of blots, spots and smudges. Psychologists do not recognize apophenia as a deviation, and many even argue that this feature occurs in people so often that it is time to consider it a normal perception of reality, especially when it comes to a creative person with a rich imagination and vivid imagination. So, someone sees faces and figures in the clouds and outlines of mountain peaks, the Rorschach test with ink spots also requires imagination from a person, and the artist went even further, developing an individual style based on this interesting feature of the human brain.
Angela Otto's unique paintings go through several stages of the creative process. First, the artist prepares the base, carefully stuffing the paper with drinks, trying to do it gracefully, since the appropriate one is needed for creativity and chaos. From drinks, she prefers coffee and tea, and not only black, but also fruity, most often from rose hips, or hibiscus, from rose petals - for red and pink spots on paper. She achieves other shades by pouring plum, beetroot, cherry, carrot, orange, pomegranate and many other juices and compotes onto paper. These colored spots constitute the main models of future paintings, and the artist prefers to highlight, draw, correct the images she has seen with ink and colored ink.
Seeing certain figures among the spots and blots, the artist works out several possible plots, and then complements the strange characters with the missing details and decorations, so that a complete picture is created, created in a unique creative style that is based on imagination and individual interpretation of the obvious. Moreover, her own interpretation may differ significantly from what other people will see on the canvas. Indeed, despite the fact that Angela Otto carefully works out the details of the paintings, they remain abstract enough and give enough opportunity to "see more". As they say, to each his own … More experimental paintings by Angela Mercedes Donna Otto (Angela Mercedes Donna Otto) can be seen on her website.
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