Artist Lisa Krannichfeld describes her portrait series 'Glass Menagerie' as being inspired by an entomology assignment where she was tasked with preserving insect specimens.
Similarly, each of these portraits is meant to capture a specific human emotion, and put it on display for all of time. Emotions caught through various facial expressions are often very difficult to read as they are "fleeting, inexact, and often blended with other feelings" the artist explains. That is why she chose watercolors as her medium, allowing the colors the freedom to blend, bleed and intensify as they will, creating ambiguous expressions that are all the more realistic and specific for their inexactness.
'Glass Menagerie' is soft, feminine and full of deeply dramatic moments of emotion.
Fleeting Facial Portraits
'Glass Menagerie' Encapsulates Momentary Emotional Expressions
Trend Themes
1. Ambiguous Expression Art - The 'Glass Menagerie' portrait series showcases the opportunity of using watercolors to create realistic and specific yet ambiguous expressions that can be applied to the art industry.
2. Emotion Capturing Mediums - Using mediums like watercolors to capture specific human emotions offers opportunities for disruptive innovation in the art and design industry.
3. Preservation of Fleeting Moments - Preserving short-lived but important moments such as human emotions depicted in 'Glass Menagerie' portraits offer new avenues for disruptive innovation in the art and photography industry.
Industry Implications
1. Art - The use of watercolors and ambiguous expressions in the 'Glass Menagerie' portrait series presents a disruptive innovation opportunity within the art industry.
2. Design - The concept of using watercolors to capture specific emotions can be applied to design industries such as advertising, branding, and packaging, presenting new disruptive innovation opportunities.
3. Photography - The preservation of fleeting emotions through portraiture, as shown in 'Glass Menagerie', opens new doors for disruptive innovation in the photography industry.