September 30, 2014 - 14:05
Eyes Wide Open
This is a portrait done by Beverly McIver. I’m not sure, but it is possible that the woman in the portrait is her sister.
Things i noticed:
- The woman is evidently black but her face is composed of a multitude of rainbow colors
- At first glance I thought she was laying on a couch but now I don’t know
- I feel like I can see much less of her physically in the second frame, but much more of her personally
- Maybe this is pretentious, but her shirt reminds me of fish swimming in a river, but her gave reminds me of a forest.
- GAZE
- We’re looking right at each other in the second frame but her view is completely vertical while mine is horizontal.
- In the first frame it looks like she is serenely sleeping, and the distance we have from her makes me feel like we are watching over her
- In the second frame her eyes are staring straight at us, but I don’t see any emotion
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas. I imagine that in person the paint is very think on the face.
- POSE
- The lumpy thing she is laying on looks like an arm.
- the way that her neck is extended in the first frame makes me feel like she just fell over in sleep.
- We can’t really see her arms, and to me that makes her posture look stiff. I’m assuming that they are by her side, but I never sleep with my arms straight by my side.
- In the second frame it seems like she ahas sunken even deeper into whatever she is in. A word that comes to mind is “languidly.”