Drunken Santa
(oil painting by Jaisini)
Drunken Santa is a work that creates a miracle of equilibrium. What seemed
like a clash of an opposite spectrum's colors became the unlikely harmony in
this painting. Jaisini's artistic vision here is formed from two components
of physical and emotional states of being.
Freezing and heating serve as a symbol to a human need for warming up from
the chill of solitude by means known to people at all times. The artist
pursues his art philosophical quest for worldly knowledge that had left its
traces in many of his works. A line of composition literally ignites the
painting's surface with the movement. The color of this work is
"phosphorescent," and it create the different planes if the subtle color
nature. The warm color of purple supports the hot color of Santa's figure and
an exotic fish above Santa. This hot color may represent the so-called
material universe, the world of the gross senses that can be observed in a
sober state. The cold, arctic blue color represents the unknown, the world of
a deep state of drunkenness where real is unreal and otherwise. The only hard
reality is the self, which never changes in any state. And maybe that is why
Jaisini favors the painting's main hero, Santa, to possess the vivacious
color of fire. Jaisini chooses this color of fire to manifest the self and
the cold cerulean, cobalt and ultramarine to renounce self as a mortal entity
surrounded by the eternal unknown.
While Santa drinks his feelings of frigid loneliness vanish. And so,
he gets a company of some almost hallucinatory nature. A shark, a ghostly
image, a profile of another prototypical drunk who is not accidentally
situated in a horizontal position. An amalgam of the several female figures
that consists of a woman in stockings, a nun, a big-breasted silhouette that
create a shadow between.
A heat can be sensed around the hot colored Santa who has lost his
beard and is holding...