Eyes

We present today's painting thanks to the Silesian Museum in Katowice and The ING Polish Art Foundation. This painting was a part of  the exhibition, The Spirit of Nature and Other Fairy Tales. Enjoy!  : )

Karolina Jabłońska claims that cycles work best for her. In each successive canvas focused on the same motif—in this case eyes, looks, being observed—she reaches for assorted formal gestures. She manipulates the scale, composition, and perspective of objects. In Eyes, the viewer is captured by the image, becoming a third pair of eyes. The composition would suggest the viewer has become an observer, the figures gazing at each other caught unawares. In this claustrophobic rendition, Jabłońska tried to capture the force of eye contact, breaking the confrontational nature of the representation with a sleepy aura. The artist reveals her color palette in the piece to have been inspired by David Lynch’s films.

P.S. Here, on the other hand, you can see through the eyes of Claude Monet!