Spartan Reader: Hunting for Art

Everyone loves elementary school art.  No matter how much one can deny it, getting messy with paint can be a great time.  However, the watercolor paint is difficult to master and usually used on an 8.5x11in paper that's easily recyclable.  It obviously needs more skill than a little kid can provide because of the hard to create images of indefinite lines and pastel colors.  Fortunately, the world is blessed with artists like Cate Parr, an expert and fashion illustrator with watercolor paints.  Most of the time it's hard to find artists and brag about them, but The Cool Hunter does a nice job of displaying the exotic art that they find.

In Cate Parr's portfolio of about six watercolor paintings, the subtle vibrant colors and free flowing strokes of paint highlight the vulnerable passion for beauty.  The reocurring paintings of women suggest the common feeling of the importance of fashion.  Specifically in one of the paintings, the wild and vibrant hair looks difficult to tame and ready to burst into an afro.  Her almost hidden, pale face is hidden in the background of the blaring hair and complicated necklace.  The choker style of the bulky necklace covers the whole neck and neckline.  It has many geometric shapes consisting of circles and rectangles, rarely filled in with a dull shade of green or yellow.  The choice of colors and shapes of the necklace may suggest the materialistic mindsets of the women today.  However, her extreme hair and exotic necklace screams a new trend that women could latch onto after the boring flat, straightened hair accessorized with Tiffany's heart lockets.  The style of many of the women painted contradicts the popular fashion today.  Cate Parr's portfolio may be a handful of iconoclastic images that are going to set a new trend and create larger parameters to beauty.