Art: Exiles by Alice Brozofsky
Here’s another artwork that Alice Brozofsky brought to the Blue Line Studio’s April show. It’s called Exile, and it also sold.
I did talk to the artist about this piece, and she was appropriately vague. The main influence for the title is the two artificial toys in the foreground. She said she felt like they were exiles, removed from the rest of the painting.
Since she said that she sometimes likes to leave things up to the viewers’ interpretations (oh, artists), and since I do like stories and themes, here’s my take:
The Taj Mahal-like building is very mystical and dreamlike. With the blurring brushstrokes, we can’t see if it is on an island or if it’s floating, as if on smoke. It is surreally placed with the legs in the water.
As water turns to land, the shore rocks become these human forms that are only in proportion until the eye travels to the farm animals. Then, the shore rocks transform into mountains.
Along the way, we pass a bog or swamp that has mired certain figures. One figure appears to be struggling to crawl out.
Although more in the foreground, the farm animals remain blurry and dreamlike. We’re denied definable eyes, which would make the scene more real and serve as a connection point to these figures.
In contrast, the two toys are very detailed. Contrary to the other two pieces I posted, these hooded eyes and aloof demeanor make them very sinister indeed.
So if I look at it as a progression, I can move from the very spiritual past and the cleanness and freedom of the water into the heaviness, dirtiness of land, where there is a pastoral scene that is still more serene than the dominating artificial replicas of the real thing. But then again, I am pretty crazy.
Independent of the story, I like how this artwork allows me to consider each of the elements separately but to also have my ideas and conceptions change as I start to group things in different ways.