What the Hell Did You Think Was Going to Happen?
Bold strokes and thrown paint give way to layers of emotion. Decisions are made everyday. Make good ones.
Responses (2)
August 11, 2022
Red and green, but not serving Christmas. Love this!
August 09, 2022
Alison Dougherty’s What the Hell Did You Think Was Going to Happen? is a brightly colored testament to abstraction's ability to capture emotion. The splashes, drips, and expressive gestures playing out across the canvas describe a drama, an entire story whose details remain forever a mystery to the viewer but whose presence is inescapably felt. The thin, squiggly lines traversing the picture express the labyrinthine complications of interpersonal human relationships. While the explosions of reds, greens, pinks, and blues are tonally brilliant metaphors for the emotional ups and downs, we experience with and through each other. There is love, happiness, sadness, anger, and frustration enshrined into the canvas. What the Hell Did You Think Was Going to Happen? is a painting we feel as much as we see; a masterpiece of emotion.
August 09, 2022
Thank you! As I am a painter, not a writer. Your words are exactly what I’m feeling. When I paint, I know what I want to say and through the work is how I communicate it. Sometimes it’s just to big for me to explain. But you nailed it.
August 11, 2022
Thank you so much! I think the best means to communicate emotion and feeling. And What the Hell Did You Think Was Going to Happen? does so perfectly!
- Category
- Abstract
- Type
- Painting - Unframed
- Materials
- Acrylic, Canvas
- Dimensions
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30.00 inches wide
40.00 inches tall
2.00 inches deep - Weight
- 5.00 lbs
- Location
- Portland , OR, US
