Fruity Pebble Painting (prompt 3)

Honestly--I'll just get this out of the way--this picture reminded me of Fruity Pebbles at first glance.  For our European friends, Fruity Pebbles is a brand of very sugary cereal marketed towards children, a brand that I remember fondly. 

Anyhoo, the picture is happy, bright, has a lot of energy--through the colors used and the quality of the lines and also through the interesting shapes formed by the contrasting colors.  The center of the painting has an interesting, more fragmented and scattered design that utilizes black, white and shades of grey.  It has a more airy and cosmic feel to it, more ethereal. There's something dark and mysterious, pensive almost, about the central design that contrasts very interestingly with the more chipper and childish arrangement of colors that surrounds it.

Overall, the entire picture gives me the impression of two different worlds of color and energy.  The first world is bright and varied, ordered and patterned, more earthy, floral, and lighthearted.  It has an edgier, peppier, and more hyper energy to it in comparison with the second world of the darker design in the center of the composition.

 The other world of the central, darker design, has some sort of expressionistic, random, but also ordered, cosmic/intergalactic chaos in it.  It's not so edgy or faceted. There are few discernible shapes in it. Some of the lines are curved and swirly, almost like a galaxy, while through this central design there are scattered white and black specs and splotches, almost like stars.


I could go on about what sort of meaning I find in this painting, but for the sake of keeping this post relatively short, I won't go into that.


The second picture, the fragment/close-up, has a very different feel and geometry to it. It almost seems as if there is an intentional border that surrounds and parallels the black and white semi square-shaped design in the very center of the fragment. The second picture seems to be more fragmented itself; while the actual entire paining seems to be made up of its own visible fragments of color and line, it seems to have more cohesion and consistency in both the first and second worlds. This isolated segment of the painting feels more disjointed, divided, and chaotic, a more emotional and expressionistic mix of lines and color.  The fragment picture doesn't create a clear contrast between two aesthetic worlds, so for me it evokes a more purely emotional response than does the entire, original picture (in which I see some sort of intentional and conceptual distinction being made between various sections of the painting).


So I started off thinking about children's cereal and ended up thinking about life, the planet, the universe, etc., as well as feeling a complex mixture of emotions while looking at the fragment and thinking about what the creator of such an image may have been feeling and thinking on a conscious and subconscious level. I managed to see real meaning and intention in a peace that others would likely interpret very differently, possibly because I found an isolated bit of the painting and compared it to the whole work; I find that very cool.

 So, seeing how chaotic and mixed-up the fragment picture is gave me some perspective on the more intellectual and deliberate aspects of the original work.