Shara Hughes, ‘Just Another Pretty Face’, 2019
Just Another Pretty Face was created by Shara Hughes, an American Painter who is known for ‘invented landscapes’. Her works have been exhibited and included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia, the Denver Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Just Another Pretty Face depicts the landscapes of colorful flowers. At first, it looks like a flower bouquet, but then I find that this is a bunch of flowers in its natural environment. The salient parts of this painting are vibrant colors flowers, rivers, and the reflection on the water. The whole of this painting makes the viewers relax and more alive.
This painting is not always seen as a depiction of concrete object, but also as a non-representational art or abstract painting. Its compositions represent the intensive feelings of joy of life.
Unlike Van Gogh who paints landscapes from real-life nature, Shara Hughes never going outside to paint flowers and landscapes. Her works are based on imagery subject in her mind. The landscapes that she painted are her own inner world that is always a changing dynamic. She never plans what will she paint beforehand, her world emerges in her creative process and the results are surprising and interesting. That’s why her landscape painting is often called ‘invented landscapes’.
Hughes’s work gives an alternative to anyone interested in landscapes painting but bored by cliché pattern of landscapes.
Shara Hughes Interview: Changing the Way We See, Louisiana Channel
