Wave
2010
Oil on Canvas
27 x 37 inches
http://mattlively.com/home.html
“Young, stupid, broke,” -Matt Lively.
Lively is a twenty-first century artist local artist who lives in Richmond, VA, and who teaches at VCU. I actually had a unique opportunity to see and listen to him talk when he came to Deep Run earlier this year. This gave me a unique insight into his life and his brain. He said, “Do a lot of what you’re good at.” Which brings me to his infamous beecyles he always paints, they are just so random and don’t make sense, but beautiful at the same time. He challenges himself to make ordinary things beautiful.
Wave by Matt Lively shows an ordinary town basically infested by beecycles. This really embodies his belief in making ordinary beautiful. The clouds have a layered look and are all different shades of blue, which is one of his trademarks. There is one small child in the lower right corner looking up in the sky as if in amazement from the beecycles in the sky. All the houses are uniform, but in various bright colors. Lively was definitely one of my most favorite artists to study, mostly because of his art and just a little bit because he was so funny. Listening to him talk made me want to study him more than I already did.
2010
Oil on Canvas
27 x 37 inches
http://mattlively.com/home.html
“Young, stupid, broke,” -Matt Lively.
Lively is a twenty-first century artist local artist who lives in Richmond, VA, and who teaches at VCU. I actually had a unique opportunity to see and listen to him talk when he came to Deep Run earlier this year. This gave me a unique insight into his life and his brain. He said, “Do a lot of what you’re good at.” Which brings me to his infamous beecyles he always paints, they are just so random and don’t make sense, but beautiful at the same time. He challenges himself to make ordinary things beautiful.
Wave by Matt Lively shows an ordinary town basically infested by beecycles. This really embodies his belief in making ordinary beautiful. The clouds have a layered look and are all different shades of blue, which is one of his trademarks. There is one small child in the lower right corner looking up in the sky as if in amazement from the beecycles in the sky. All the houses are uniform, but in various bright colors. Lively was definitely one of my most favorite artists to study, mostly because of his art and just a little bit because he was so funny. Listening to him talk made me want to study him more than I already did.
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