Postmodernism Visual Analysis

            This piece uses the analogous color scheme. I used mostly blues, greens, whites and blacks in this piece. This brings the theme of unity together. The piece is split up into a diagonal composition. The denotative message is based on what is actually in the piece of art. In this piece there are two main figures that use negative space to make another shape. The two shapes are similar shapes and sizes. One of on the upper left side of the page and the other shape is on the lower right side of the page. There are shapes of puzzle pieces that are scattered throughout the painting. There appears to be butterflies coming off of the shapes and getting smaller as they go to the next shape. Inside the shapes, there is a butterfly, a person jumping, two hands intertwined, a running brain, a key and a chain. The connotative meaning is that a person needs to find who they are and figure out what to do with themselves if they are once liberated from something, or anything.

            The quote I used to do my postmodern piece of art is, “It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.” When I thought of this quote, I thought of freedom and a person finding who they are. Often times, a person has to go in circles to find out who they are. They end up doing the same things over and over again until they find out who they are. Every time something happens in someone’s life, they have to rethink who they are, and sometimes they feel as if they have to start all over. The centered theme of this piece brings the ideas of unity and a person’s center into it. The butterflies getting smaller and bigger (growing) symbolizes a person’s journey to find themselves. This ties into the ideological message; everyone has their own journey. Everyone has to start somewhere, and there are so many things that can push a person to being something different, but in the end, most people don’t change who they are as a person, and will always be the same person they always were, with a few changes along the way, and maturing into who they really are. Dealing with the events of life force a person to deal with it and question who they are.