The above work I found on a random search, not related to anything to do with this class. I got onto this artist's website and found out he has some pretty cool stuff. His name is Mario Sanchez Nevado. In the image above there is an obvious ocean theme. The tentacles coming out of the body seem to rise up like the mast of a sail. and they seem to wave in the wind like a tattered sail as well. There is a baby carriage there, which leads me to wonder if the figure to the right of it is female or male. The torso expresses masculinity while the body below the waist seems to be the dress of a female. The white-stained-red clothes hint at death in some way and it almost looks like sores on skin. The "child" is a little difficult to decipher, I see a transparent being, almost like a fetus--unborn. And from his/her head spills a tiny drop of blood that almost represents a tear. The colors are dark with extreme contrasts in the figures--overall this seems sinister and mysterious, hinting at the metaphysical. It's everything I love in poetry and art....I couldn't even begin to pick apart what it might actually mean. I only see a father/mother figure, an allusion to sails and the wind, and a strange almost fetus-like creature.
This is Maggie Taylor's Almost Alice series, and it clearly depicts one of my favorite scenes from the story. The man in the checkered coat is the mad-hatter and the rabbit is his accomplice. I can't really make out a lot of the details, but it looks like the house has and ear? or a wing? I see the clock on the table, and I can't exactly tell what is leaning against the rabbit. Anyway, the fact that the mad hatter is facing away from the viewer might play into the idea that nobody really knows what the mad hatter will say or do and why he says or does those things. The colors are muted and neutral, for the most part there isn't any hint at something all too exciting happening at the present moment but there is a potential energy about the work.
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