Crunchie Eye And Painted Eye By Artist Catherine Truemans

Born in 1957, artist Catherine Truemans’s piece titled Eye Calving’s (Crunchie Eye, Time Out Eye, Mint Pattie Eye, and Painted Eye) represents an image of four diverse eyes. This piece was made in 2007 as a response to anatomical illustrations of head dissections rendered in Europe in the 17th-19th centuries. The depiction of a Crunchie Eye, Time Out Eye, Mint Pattie Eye, and Painted Eye was influenced by the techniques and materials Catherine learned in Japan in 1990. The materials that were used to create this piece were acrylic, confectionary wrappers, paint, mother of pearl, and graphite carved on 100mm x 100mm Chinese Boxwood. Catherine has chosen to use nontraditional inlay materials, substituting the pure gold foils traditionally used in

This implies that this artwork is composed of shapes. Most of the shapes are formed by lines and shifts in colour. For example, in the Painted Eye, lines outlining the eyebrow hair and the contrast of colors (yellow and black) create the eyebrows shape in the artwork. In addition, the light source in this piece is not seen. However, Catherine uses lighter shades of colour on higher aspects of the calving’s. Such as light yellow on top of the darker, shaded yellow to show the different levels of shape and to make it seem like a glow is cast upon her face. Warmer tones/shades of colour are used to show direction of light/shadows and the inwards carving shape near the eyes. Furthermore, texture is created using the confectionary wrappers. Colors are primarily important in regards to this art piece as it presents a finished and pleasant view to the eye. The Crunchie eye, Time out eye, and Mint Pattie eye depict the following colors of skin tone, black, and white. Additionally, each has a different eye colour; fire red, brown, and orange. The painted eye is skin colored yellow, with a green