‘Woman in blue and purple’ Martina Shapiro.

Expressionist and Abstract portrait of a women, coloured with purple, violet, blue, turquoise, green and many intense colours. The figure has an intense and direct look towards the viewer with an interesting, almost blank expression on her face. While looking at the model Shapiro wants the viewer to find an aspect of them. By using rich, deep, bright and bold contrasts of fauve colours She believes that her art and all art is like “doorway to your soul”. She creates her pieces using multiple layers of acrylic paints. The colours within her paintings are rich and vibrant and there are loud aspects of many different colours that photos, themselves, cannot fully capture. The choice of colour depends upon the intensity of the light that illuminates the painting. Throughout the day different parts hues and tones of the painting are emphasised, depending on how the light hits the image.

I feel that Shapiro’s work questions what have we have developed our minds, to see things in one-way, “the right way”. We have a distinct idea of how the human face should be/ look and where the colours and shades are placed. Research has found that we find figures and shapes more physically appealing when they are symmetrical. By using unusual shapes/ colours within her paintings, Shapiro distorts figures to make them feel and seem more abstract, something, which may make the viewer feel uncomfortable to look at.

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