The Whole Ball of Wax

For the post-modernist project, I gained inspiration from artist Jean Baudrillard’s quote, “The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”   Baudrillard’s quote moved me to abstractly create a postmodernist art piece that visually explained Baudrillard’s quote.   The background of my piece is comprised of a blue and red acrylic paint with picture cutouts from a Photoshop collage.   Both the blue and red paints start at opposite ends of the paper then gradually fade to the center where they blend into a solid white.   On the faded blue side, there are images that represent truth, and on the red side the images represent lies.   To create a focal point, I placed an image of a lightbulb in the center where both the blue and red colors morph to white.   Through a verity of postmodernist techniques such as painting, making a collage, and using words, the artwork echoes the thematic quote and transforms it into an alternative medium for an audience to value and experience.  

For as far as we can comprehend in our ancient lineage, colors have had a dramatic influence on the nature of ourselves, the world and how we perceive it. We use these visuals to describe what we are seeing and as fascinating as it is, colors have a psychological component of comprehensive response to our brains. These responses that colors evoke to humans are the most important aspects of it. Colors like blue and green remind us of elatedness, serenity, and peace. While colors like brown and black induce feelings of melancholy, distress, and anguish. Of course different shades of these colors compliment their natural state of shade by attributing other characteristics to it. These differing feelings affect our perception heavily on our mood, health, and other factors that surround us every day. Because of our perception of color, it can be appealing or appalling. This stresses more of a psychological effect of what color truly means in our world versus its actual nat