Niki de Saint Phalle's art

Niki de Saint Phalle

This art draws my attention since it was kind of messy looking art. The outer appearance of the above paint didn’t really fascinate me with its beauty as things were kept randomly without giving any emphasis on anything. However, the top part and the bottom part accumulates various stuffs whereas the middle part has space on it as she has placed only one object,  looks like the top part of the shovel.  There were different strands of colors; looks like colors were poured from the top. Artist used material used in everyday life like axes, shoes, knives, etc. She had attached different materials in a wooden board painted white. The top part of the art has the small plastic bag filled with different colors. The colors she used are colorful .One can see blue, orange, yellow, green, black and mostly bright colors. May be the artist is trying to emphasis the brighter part in the whole art. Some of those plastic bag burst ejecting the colors inside it. This art as a whole looks dirty and unorganized as materials are placed randomly.

                                                       Fig. Niki de Saint Phalle

Nevertheless, it looks like the artist is trying to protest against something as we analyze her work in a deeper way. Her use of the gun, shoes, axes, metals, etc in the art, sort of reflects violence and the colors pouring against these pieces represent artist disagreement on violence. I would say that this form of art is more of a representational form as it looks like artist is trying to represent some sort of protest against violence.  The use of the material like shoe, knives, gun, etc and covering those with different colors paint, gives the art a different meaning. It looks as if the artist wants to hide the violence with different colors.

As the saying goes by "Never judge the book by its cover.", I can tell for sure that the art doesn't hold any specific emphasis on anything but if we analyze the meaning hold by the items used in the art then it looks like the artist is trying to cover the negativity or violence by the different colors.