Homage to Vangogh – Paritosh Sen

A brief description of the painting: The painting shows an artist painting a portrait of a smoking, aged, pale and mysterious man. While his face acts indifferent, the portrait shows a depressed and unhealthy person. Rusty shades have given the painting the perfect effect!

When an artist is painting a portrait, he not only gets an overt expression of the person that he’s painting, but he also gets a view of all the layers underneath. What if he could paint any layer that he wants? That’s after all his take on the picture, making it what they call an “artists impression”? An artist’s impression can be very powerful and can speak out the truth. Even the best computer hackers couldn't hack into a person’s mind, but a good artist can view it as though it were the most obvious! This painting also gives us an important lesson about life, that no matter how hard you try to hide something, that something finds its way out inevitably. Because of this, the layers of detail are also shown in the painting itself.

So I selected this picture because, it speaks out the most. Also psychologically cutting up a person is very intriguing.