Interpretation of emotions through colors and patterns used in “Red Room I” by Vasiliy Ryabchenko

Abstract

Neo expressionism was an art movement that dismissed the intellectualized approach to painting and championed the expression of raw human emotion. “Red Room I” is an illustration of the neo-expressionist VasiliyRyabchenko with the use of abstract designs and harmony of colours that evokes emotions of fear and anxiety. The deep layers of loneliness and the wheels of alienation rotate amidst the company of their loved ones is deeply felt which turns the person voiceless to express their supressed phobic feelings is exerted through the painting. Thus, the elucidation of the usage of colours and their symbolism with the significance of the patterns used to analyses the red room within every human being where emotions are bottled up due to distrust in the white lies of the world. This study attempts to subjectively interpret the patterns and significance of colours used by the painter which creates the realization of a red room within every individual, resembling the heart where insecure feelings and scary emotions that haunt the minds are locked in. This painting surely is a self-reflection of the vapid life within every person.