Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Nature in Art

I am an artist that values, above all, the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful. 

-April Gornik

Aesthetical pleasing and the impact the art on the audience is important for April Gornik. An artist who’s inspiration is nature and cares for her audience reactions toward her art. Gornik’s art influences her audience feelings. She designs her art respecting nature and admiring it. She gives live to each printing with different mediums. She uses from 3-5 colors in her lithographic printings and with this media she gives a unique personality to her portrait and her audience can clearly perceive it.

One example of how engaging her paintings can be is “Sky Through Trees,” each silhouette has its own form; there are no repetitions or patterns. It resembles each human being, every single one of us are unique. Her inspiration (nature) is turn into a passionate and uniformly tone in a printing. Going back to the example, this printing is on a grayscale. The trees pop out of the page by simply being black under a gray tone background.

Being in a society where the majority of us no longer appreciate nature, April Gornik creates a nice job at bringing us back to where we started. She helps us to realize the beauty of what we need to preserve for future generations. There’s no need to have a compacted design that will enclose a lot of details, it only needs to be balance and make sense.

** The pictures and the quote were borrowed from her web page: http://www.aprilgornik.com/book.html**

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