Maria Helena Vieria Da Silva - The corridor
The second project was
about interpreting an artist's work.
I chose Maria Helena Vieria Da Silva's the corridor, a painting made in 1950.
I liked her brutal deconstruction of space into fragments and her purely
abstract visual language. Here is one of her quotes in order to understand her approach to work:
-"Perspective captivate
d me to succeed in encapsulating
a whole space on a small piece of canvas"-
This sequence shows the progress of my final collage. I deconstructed photographs of Da Silva's life and reassembled them to a new abstract composition, corres
ponding to one of her major quotes, which states:
-" I acquire my learning, my knowledge, by tying threads together,
piece by piece, constantly adding more until there is
a knot inside me."-
In order to approach and translate the significance of what she saw, she
simplified, unified and even warped and distorted structure. Throughout her work o
ne get the idea that in
direct means are more effective in capturing the essential character of the se
en and thus she created a kind of personal alphabet from the external aspects of
the world around her.
Objects became signs, and with the repetition of
those she created her own visual language.
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