OPTIC: "Wings II" ● Painting
Wings II ● Painting O: Wings II highlights a chaotic and blissful scene of a girl ascending in the form of a dove in a sea of redness and turbulence. P: Large circles dot throughout the piece with bleeding elements. The dove in the middle also has bleeding wings as it takes flight. Primarily warm and darker colors flood the painting with a few yellows and oranges to accent. Within the background, scratched marks create an ocean-like appearance that sits on top of a deep red color. On the side panels, porcelain vases, typically depicted in traditional Asian paintings, hold plants, with the left one drooping and holding less leaves than the right. T: Hung Liu, a Chinese American artist painted Wings II during a time of violence toward Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders in 2011. Being an immigrant herself, Hung Liu empathized with those struggling with their foreign identity in a Western world. As the Chinese...