Drunken Santa :: essays papers

Drunken Santa Drunken Santa is a work that creates a miracle of equilibrium. What seemed like a clash of an opposite spectrums colors became the unlikely congruity in this painting. Jaisinis artistic vision here is formed from two components of physical and emotional states of being. Freezing and heating serve as a symbol to a human need for warming up from the chill of solitude by means known to people at all times. The artist pursues his art philosophic quest for worldly knowledge that had left its traces in many of his works. A line of composition literally ignites the paintings surface with the movement. The color of this work is phosphorescent, and it create the contrasting planes if the subtle color nature. The warm color of purple supports the hot color of Santas figure and an exotic fish above Santa. This hot color may act the so-called material universe, the world of the gross senses that can be observed in a sober state. The cold, arctic blue color represents th e unknown, the world of a deep state of drunkenness where real is unreal and otherwise. The only hard reality is the self, which never changes in any state. And maybe that is why Jaisini favors the paintings main hero, Santa, to ingest the vivacious color of fire. Jaisini chooses this color of fire to manifest the self and the cold cerulean, cobalt and ultramarine to renounce self as a mortal entity environ by the eternal unknown. While Santa drinks his feelings of frigid loneliness vanish. And so, he gets a company of some almost hallucinatory nature. A shark, a ghostly image, a profile of another prototypical drunk who is not accidentally situated in a horizontal position. An amalgam of the several female figures that consists of a womanhood in stockings, a nun, a big-breasted silhouette that create a shadow between. A heat can be sensed around the hot dour Santa who has lost his beard and is holding a glass of red wine. He shows his thumb that may be just a polite sub stitution for the lay finger sign. The colors of the work are balanced by a virtuoso composition of a cubist character. The pictures space is divided endlessly. More images bewilder to appear. The world of