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| Year of creation | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 110 W × 150 H × 2 D cm |
| Type of art | painting |
| Style | expressionism |
| Genre | portrait |
| Materials | acrylic, canvas |
Description of the Artwork “Ave Maria”
The female figure standing in this artwork resembles Ave Maria, has a very tired, even fed up face and waiting for something to end. Although, this figure is meant to be a self-portrait, I do not convey myself as Maria, but what I want to communicate instead is how too much naivety, too much one-sided trust and love exhausts every female (and not only, but in this case I am basing this on my personal experience) as they have so much to give away, which they do and that's how they are left empty. This is a kind of sorrow I wanted to express.
Lizi Budagashvili, United States
I am Lizi, a 19-years-old artist from the country of Georgia. Apart from being an artist, I compose music and write poems. A little bit about the motif why I chose art: I paint because I feel that my inner energy, which is being ceaselessly accumulated, needs to be released and I cannot find rest until I settle it down in an artwork. That is why I am very sensitive about all my artworks, as there is a part of me still living in each. I try to put as much energy as I can in it because I believe that the vividness of energy in artwork determines how long will the life of artwork will be, for how long will this energy last and stay there: maybe for a few months, maybe forever. I want to bring Joan Miro's quote which I can truly relate to in terms of passion and inspirations: "I begin my paintings because something jolts me away from reality. This shock can be caused by a little thread that comes loose from the canvas, a drop of water that falls, the fingerprint my thumb leaves on the shiny surface of this table." These little details that Miro lists are mostly the ones that give artists the privilege of getting inspired by the things that mostly remain unnoticed. Whenever I paint, I feel a passion grasping me and making me lose myself. This is why I believe that the artistic process is a paradox of belonging to yourself and losing yourself at the same time.