Does your design mean something? maybe but I would be surprised if that paragraph of top notch philosophy came before the design was created.
Does that red in that area stand for the hurt that was caused by a former friend? NO, it looks good.
BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Just shut up for a minute and look at the painting. It doesn't need to have some political meaning, it doesn't need to connect back to a simpler time, it doesn't need to represent your hated ex... It can, but that does not mean that everything anyone creates has some secret symbolism that is deeper than the average thought process. I am a painter, but I'm also just as much of a dumbass as anyone else. Sometimes I go into something thinking of "bigger things" but many times I start painting simply because I have the desire. I want to feel better and painting is my way of accomplishing that. Meaning can arise or it can be non-existant. Either one can result in a great piece of art and pretending that it's ultra-meaningful does not make it better.
Painting, for me, is most often an expression of emotion. Simple as that. I could connect that emotion post-completion to just about anything, reason my way into a philosophy on why the painting was made and write a paper on it, but that doesn't make the painting any more real or special to me. It's the emotion that makes it more than a shitty photo, the real emotion that lends itself to the beauty, that initial movement that creates the life of the piece. Without that, no matter if shakespeare writes 150 sonnets about it, it still wouldn't have the meaning of a simple piece that was honest. Besides, If someone really has to ask you what a piece means in order to feel anything from it, did you do your job as an artist?
So take a look at my most recent piece...A still life of roses. "What does it mean?" you ask. relaxation, beauty, and optimism during a time that I was feeling none of it.
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