About the Artist
Silvia Pelissero was born in 1991, Rome. She is an Italian painter best known as agnes-cecile. She attended an art high school in Rome, than she successfully continued on as a self-taught artist. Cecile creates wonderful mixed media watercolour, ink, oil, varnish and acrylic pieces that initially catches the viewers’ attention. She is mainly a water colour portrait artist with a sort of abstract style. Each portrait which she paints, has a different meaning behind it. They all show different varieties of colour and expressions, which makes the artist more interesting since she doesn’t repeatedly paint the same emotions that she feels.
Description Of The artwork
Since this artwork is a portrait it doesn’t have a foreground, middle ground or a background. The background is blank and the foreground is the girl. This portrait is almost perfectly the same on each side of the face, it is more symmetrical than it is asymmetrical. The focus point is the hair and eyes, this would be because they have been painted using bold, dark lines. Whereas the rest of the face is very pale.
Analysis of the artwork
There are various types of lines used in this artwork, mainly straight, sharp and bold lines. However the artist has also tried to add in curvy, thick and thin lines. The use of line in this portrait has created outlines for mainly the eyes, hair and jaw line. It has also created tone, shape and texture. Mainly organic and curvy shapes have been used, there are Angular shapes which is irregular straight sided shapes, which makes the lightning bolts beneath the chin, also the eyes. The use of these shapes create realism in the hair and eyes. Which makes this artwork very interesting. The texture is mainly sharp and smooth, however it is a bit rough beneath the chin. This texture creates realism and tone. Her face is very pale with some dark splotches, there are dark tones used for the hair, eyes and lips. The main tones used are sharp, dark, dull,
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