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Color Final Project | March 2008 | 13 x 19 image
For our final assignment in Professor Vasa Mihich's color class (21), we were instructed to use one of Pieter Brugel's paintings and make a meaningful color composition. The painting was to be grayscale, with our colors laid on top of it.
I chose Brugel's celebrated Dulle Griet, also known as Mad Meg, done in the 1560s. The painting is a depiction of a Flemish folk story about a mad peasant woman who leads an army towards hell; it might be based on the old Flemish proverb that goes "She could plunder in front of hell and remain unscathed."
My composition is meant to depict this encounter with hell, with fierce reds that progress to darkness as they approach the mouth of hell.
