Art can be seen as the expression of the artist mood, feeling, thinking, message… but art is above all, a way for viewers to experience emotions. Something intriguing, a new idea, a new concept, a new technique even a new landscape, something that first will create confusion until we identify the meaning behind the creation, associating what we see with our personal memories or knowledges. This is what we love about art and why we keep looking at it with excitement, in search of refreshment and inspiration. As a stimulus to our own emotions, art often evokes a feeling of beauty, relaxation or happiness.
Jocelyn Hobbie, a figurative painter based in New York City, has seized our attention with her brilliantly painted canvases of young women. Her dreamy style and emblematic flawless visual could be described as photoshop realism at first sight. But her techniques, using oil painting with glazing layer(s) is a real complex work seen in Jean August Dominique Ingres masterpieces among others past masters from the Renaissance. Thanks to her glazing, the skilled artist with high quality brushes was able to achieve such a perfection, refining, smoothing effect, correcting the emphasis of the first paint. Glossy cheekbones, neat eyes shallows and flawless skin tone for her New Yorker ideals figures.
To this aesthetic and complex technique, Hobbie chose to juxtapose different ambiances, incorporating cheerful patterns into her paintings as element of details which we already loved from contemporary Kehinde Wiley green formula. Loving textiles like Gingham or Plaid, nature and even Portuguese tiles, the artist followed her intuition, using beautiful tool to inspire and give to the general taste a change from rigid minimalism past trend.
These new paintings from the artist are a visual relief calling for beauty, delight and happiness even in a morose mood set by the figures emotions. The goal, she said, is to achieve a disjointed harmonious thing, simultaneously.
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