'Red Storm'

Please, take a longer look and let me know if you if you can see a shouting face all over the frame or not? :) If you can, it makes me very happy. However, after a longer observation, it could also become a portrait of a soldier wearing a gas mask. Happened to me. The aggressive colour scheme works just as well and the meaning is not so very different. This is the beauty of expressive abstract art - you are free to enjoy it whatever way you like. You can imagine things, let the art play with your mind while your mind plays with art.

The reality is fully distorted in this double exposure, The pieces are used to create a completely new reality, from a subjective perspective of an observer.

I used the aggressive and very saturated combination of red and green to emphasize the moment and the strength of the shout which I first envisioned. I can almost hear it coming out of that wide open mouth. The atmosphere adds to the emotional momentum and is evoking an aggressive mood. Emotional experience is achieved through the almost complete destruction of physical reality.

The naked tree branches in the bottom are the most focused object and they work toward the creation of uneasiness. This is anything but an easy-going image. The small white areas also add to that feeling and up the dynamics even though there is no black tone at all.

This storm of red colour looks quite scary to me. I wonder where all that came in from. Seriously. I usually make positive art.

How did the title influence your observation before you read the first few lines?

Enjoy! :)

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