Blog Post #5

This piece is called "Estudiante Muerto" by Alejandro Obregon and it is located in the Art Museum of the Americas. Right off the bat, you can somewhat see a person and as you look more into it, you can tell that this person is laying on top of a table with various objects around he or her. The style Obregon chose to use in this painting is very unique, in the sense that the title and what's in the work are hard to correlate to. The title translates into "dead student" and looking at the this for long won't make you see anything close to that. Obviously this is an abstract piece for many reasons. We can tell that the shapes he used as well as the colors are all over the place. This gives this painting a look that seems to have been distorted. Aside from the human body, the animals and items around him are all presented in the same fashion. Everything is mainly the color red but some things are a blue color, making this even more abstract. The figure of the body is stylized because it's just a human body. There are no real specific human features that could distinct this from anyone else drawn at this level. I think the artist chose to style this painting like this to signify how the meaning of the youth dying. I believe that the chicken and the rose like object signifies labor while the bottle and wine glass represent having a bitter sweet feeling. These things are sometimes hard to grasp, explaining the abstract nature of this piece.