Visual Art Research Questions

Artist: Octavio Ocampo

Daisy Field

Composition: The main focus is the flowers because it has unity means they belong together and they can make a face figure or illusion. It's a simple art because it has only flower and some bush in the background. Also it's asymmetrical.

Color: The color is cold because of the color light blue with white and black and it tends to appear calming . Also value is the dominant element in the art, the dominant value is light and it focuses are eyes in the flowers that is forming a face of a girl. The colors also create an emotional response which is the calm emotion.

Paint Application: Octavio Ocampo used to apply the paint in smooth way. In this painting Octavio applied the paint in smooth way because it seems like it doesn't have rough points. Blending is the technique used in the painting because it blends the color white with black and light blue. Octavio uses oil on his paintings. 

Tone: Octavio uses dark and light tonal value, the dark is the background and the light tonal value is the fog. The tone use to guide the viewer's eyes to the flowers. Peaceful, is the emotional effect of the tonal value. 

Form: The daisy flowers form into a woman face that seems like she is relaxing. The form is dramatic. The form shows volume because of the shading under the flowers. Also the form is convey a calm emotion that is she feels relax.

Shape: Octavio uses a shallow space in some of his paintings, this painting has a shallow space because some flowers are very close to the viewers. It has perspective device use it is the flowers that is overlapping to each other. Also there is no vanishing point.

Line: The quality of the line is soft because Octavio softly draw the flowers. The effect of the soft quality line is that it makes curve of movement of the flowers. The lines use to guide the viewer's eye to the flowers.

Surface: The surface of objects are very specific detail because Octavio try to explain that the flowers are calming and relaxing by painting it using flowers that makes a woman face. The detail of the flowers used to guide the viewer to see the woman face. The texture is almost the same.

Pictorial Position: I think Octavio Ocampo's intention is that he wants to explain to people that they can be relax like flowers and forget their problem for a moment and is connected to the flowers. Octavio use a particular theme like the painting above because he is relax and he forget his problem just for a moment. I think there is  social message that Octavio trying to communicate, that is you can forget everything just for a moment and sway like a flowers did when the wind is blowing.

A Wider Context: I think Octavio Ocampo paint the painting above because of his beliefs, I research about him why he paint illusion in which a scene create a outlines of face, I saw that his some paint is about a religion and it says that Octavio's painting is religious. Octavio has been influenced by historical events because he draw Jesus and other religious God's. Octavio's work is different to some artist work because he is focus on his beliefs. 

Symbolism: The object mean free of deep crises and governed. The symbol is personal because on my research it says Octavio has evolved by his own style that is 'free of deep crises and governed' . The relationship between symbols are harmonious because it fits to one another.

Personal Response: My response to the object is that It makes me feel relax and calm because of the color and the formation of the flowers. I think to those people who saw this they also might feel like it's relaxing and calming. I think the aspects I would like to use in my own work is that the background that gives a calming color.