Grace Yang-Rebirth

Student Name: Grace Yang

Title:  Rebirth

Work type: Oil on canvas

Category: Fine Art/Illustration

Size: 16x16

Art can often explore the theme of death and rebirth through visually impactful imagery through cinema, sculpture, paintings and so on. Artists often play with symbols or metaphors instead of a direct depiction due to the sometimes-darker theme and or subject matter and have share a message. Influences can range from various cultures and eras as these can relate back to ancient divine narratives to contemporary visual allegories. Art can connect time and space for a modern retelling of these present-day pictures.

Grace Yang’s artistic interpretations of death and rebirth characterize her intrigue to provoke, and hold captivate the audience in engaging them to stop and look at the picture deepen through contemplation of mortality, youth(beauty), and the gaze the figure engages with the viewer.

According to Grace, this painting is about how pain and beauty can exist in the same body. The ribs are open, the skin torn, and the crows are like agents of decay, feeding on what’s left. Yet inside the chest there are flowers blooming suggests that even after being hurt, something gentle and alive can still grow from the wound. The figure’s calm and distant expression make it seem like they’ve accepted this process of being broken down and transformed into something new.

（By Omar Gallegos）