Vanessa Puerta

The Institute for Contemporary Art had many beautiful art pieces. One art that interested me tremendously was a mural made by Chiho Aoshima. The mural was a beautiful piece with a variation of colors in the lobby of the museum. I found myself gazing at it for a large amount of time. The piece, named “The Divine Gas” has a supernatural and natural world represented in it. What is going on in the massive mural really caught my eye. Out of all the pieces I saw, I admired Aoshima’s art the most.
The mural was created on a Macintosh G4 computer and printed on adhesive vinyl. The clouds are made up of mostly pink, purple, and white colors. Surrounding the clouds is a beautiful blue sky with many different shades. The grass field also has many shades of green. I think the sky represents the supernatural world, and the grass is the normal world. The mural is combined with many angles and views all over it with a variation of colors.
I believe that there is a female gender representation in the mural. The girl is pale white with stringy long hair, lying across grass. She has beautiful eyes and curvy bottom. Girls are usually depicted to have a curvy body and long, beautiful hair.
The setting is a calm, normal place. Butterflies’ are flying around and a couple is walking around holding hands. There seems to be nothing unusual going on on the grass field. When the mural goes above the grass, the sky looks calm but with something abnormal there. Several pink, purple, and white clouds emerge from the natural world of the girl’s bottom, and a black genie sits in the clouds. The genie appears to me to be evil in the supernatural clouds. It appears to be a god or spirit because of the sunshine that surrounds it. I realized that the gas is “divine” because it is godlike. The art is very effective because it grabs attention. I think the colors and expression are rare. I have never seen art like Aoshima. It gives you a sort of dream-like feeling.
I really enjoyed looking at this piece. The type of art that Aoshima creates really attracts me. I love the use of colors in the mural, and that it looks like a fantasy or dream. The mural tells a story, and it was fun to look at it and try to figure what the art was expressing.