Skyler's Art
Skyler did some drawing tonight and has branched out beyond balloons and pumpkins. I showed him how to draw a flower, and then he created some more additons on his own. Below is his rendition of a scene with the sun, a flower, grass, himself and Shayna, and a cloud with rain:
He did this drawing of a guy and then his masterpiece called "All Bellies:"
Skylers style is to draw people with very long legs. On Sunday we went to the Boca Raton Museum of Art which had an exhibit of Guillermo Trujillo's paintings, a famous painter from Panama. It happens that Trujillo has a similar style to Skyler - having elongated people with stiltlike legs:
A few of the landscapes — most notably the lush Paisaje de Verano and Erosión de campo — are unpopulated, and there's a strange grandeur to their emptiness. But more often Trujillo inserts angular, elongated forms inspired by the nucho, the magic wand or wooden baton used by indigenous Panamanian shamans in the performance of rituals. Such artifacts were originally carved in the shapes of birds, animals, and other creatures, although in Trujillo's canvases they became stylized forms that seem to dance through the landscapes, sometimes earthbound, sometimes through the air. The artist senses and tries to capture their energy and power, which were such that a nucho could only be put to use a single time.
In some of the paintings the nuchos are clearly totemlike forms that retain their origins in the realm of animals and other mythical creatures. In other images they seem to be morphing into more human shapes, evolving before our eyes from primitive to more sophisticated forms. And in other works the metamorphosis seems almost complete, with only traces of the nuchos remaining in their human counterparts.
Even when Trujillo turns to painting actual human beings, the influence of the nucho remains. The artist portrays people as elongated, impossibly tall and lean, as if stilts are hidden beneath their colorful, richly patterned clothing. It's a technique that lends the subjects an elegance as well as, occasionally, a faintly comical demeanor.
He did this drawing of a guy and then his masterpiece called "All Bellies:"
Skylers style is to draw people with very long legs. On Sunday we went to the Boca Raton Museum of Art which had an exhibit of Guillermo Trujillo's paintings, a famous painter from Panama. It happens that Trujillo has a similar style to Skyler - having elongated people with stiltlike legs:
Some background info. about this style of Trujillo's:
A few of the landscapes — most notably the lush Paisaje de Verano and Erosión de campo — are unpopulated, and there's a strange grandeur to their emptiness. But more often Trujillo inserts angular, elongated forms inspired by the nucho, the magic wand or wooden baton used by indigenous Panamanian shamans in the performance of rituals. Such artifacts were originally carved in the shapes of birds, animals, and other creatures, although in Trujillo's canvases they became stylized forms that seem to dance through the landscapes, sometimes earthbound, sometimes through the air. The artist senses and tries to capture their energy and power, which were such that a nucho could only be put to use a single time.
In some of the paintings the nuchos are clearly totemlike forms that retain their origins in the realm of animals and other mythical creatures. In other images they seem to be morphing into more human shapes, evolving before our eyes from primitive to more sophisticated forms. And in other works the metamorphosis seems almost complete, with only traces of the nuchos remaining in their human counterparts.
Even when Trujillo turns to painting actual human beings, the influence of the nucho remains. The artist portrays people as elongated, impossibly tall and lean, as if stilts are hidden beneath their colorful, richly patterned clothing. It's a technique that lends the subjects an elegance as well as, occasionally, a faintly comical demeanor.
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