Three Women
Oils on Canvas 30"x40"
Three Women is an homage to the hard-working women in my family. It is a painting that represents my Hispanic heritage and how growing among a single mother and an exemplary sister helped me throughout my life. Despite that I was continuously migrating from Mexico to the US during my youth and intermixing and blending with other cultures, religions and traditions, the women in my family helped me retain my own heritage. Not only did they teach me the value of hard work, but also of preserving the rich Hispanic elements that constitute my culture.
In Three Women, I used repetitive circular shapes to enforce a womanly empowered cycle, one which represents feminine strength and compositional balance. I also used warm colors to represent a passion for my heritage- one that has taught me to live a life of gratitude and humility. The exclusion of a mouth on each of the female figures is an attempt to capture the emotion portrayed through their visual expression for I believe that the eyes in a painting are what speak to an audience. Why add a mouth when the eyes can say so much.
Three Women is an homage to the hard-working women in my family. It is a painting that represents my Hispanic heritage and how growing among a single mother and an exemplary sister helped me throughout my life. Despite that I was continuously migrating from Mexico to the US during my youth and intermixing and blending with other cultures, religions and traditions, the women in my family helped me retain my own heritage. Not only did they teach me the value of hard work, but also of preserving the rich Hispanic elements that constitute my culture.
In Three Women, I used repetitive circular shapes to enforce a womanly empowered cycle, one which represents feminine strength and compositional balance. I also used warm colors to represent a passion for my heritage- one that has taught me to live a life of gratitude and humility. The exclusion of a mouth on each of the female figures is an attempt to capture the emotion portrayed through their visual expression for I believe that the eyes in a painting are what speak to an audience. Why add a mouth when the eyes can say so much.