Lion Hearts Get Hungry Too by Mefore Aday
Born in 1985 as Mary Aday, to a poor, uneducated family in the rural deep south, the pseudonym Mefore Aday came to her during her freshman year studying fine art at Memphis College of Art in Tennessee. The meaning behind her pseudonym is both a silly pun and a family allegiance, "Remember me for a day, look at my work, and then I'm impossible to forget." Her ability to experiment with different mediums and styles shows her resiliency and bravery. Her subject matter is usually dark and playful at the same time.
This painting is a representation of my feelings about how modern society digests Vincent Van Gogh's art and his sunflower paintings specifically. The lion is chewing on sunflowers very comfortably, maybe even bored. The lion represents society looking at artwork as a pretty painting of sunflowers, instead of a painful cry for acceptance from someone who was considered a weird outsider, poverty-stricken, starving artist suffering from mental health problems. I made this image in the hopes that it would inspire people to consider supporting the starving, poor artist's of our own time. Comfort Food is what people consider Van Gogh's work now, but during his lifetime there was not much comfort afforded to him.
(IG: @MeforeAday)
Print: 10 x 10
Original: 30 x 30 acrylic on canvas
Born in 1985 as Mary Aday, to a poor, uneducated family in the rural deep south, the pseudonym Mefore Aday came to her during her freshman year studying fine art at Memphis College of Art in Tennessee. The meaning behind her pseudonym is both a silly pun and a family allegiance, "Remember me for a day, look at my work, and then I'm impossible to forget." Her ability to experiment with different mediums and styles shows her resiliency and bravery. Her subject matter is usually dark and playful at the same time.
This painting is a representation of my feelings about how modern society digests Vincent Van Gogh's art and his sunflower paintings specifically. The lion is chewing on sunflowers very comfortably, maybe even bored. The lion represents society looking at artwork as a pretty painting of sunflowers, instead of a painful cry for acceptance from someone who was considered a weird outsider, poverty-stricken, starving artist suffering from mental health problems. I made this image in the hopes that it would inspire people to consider supporting the starving, poor artist's of our own time. Comfort Food is what people consider Van Gogh's work now, but during his lifetime there was not much comfort afforded to him.
(IG: @MeforeAday)
Print: 10 x 10
Original: 30 x 30 acrylic on canvas
Born in 1985 as Mary Aday, to a poor, uneducated family in the rural deep south, the pseudonym Mefore Aday came to her during her freshman year studying fine art at Memphis College of Art in Tennessee. The meaning behind her pseudonym is both a silly pun and a family allegiance, "Remember me for a day, look at my work, and then I'm impossible to forget." Her ability to experiment with different mediums and styles shows her resiliency and bravery. Her subject matter is usually dark and playful at the same time.
This painting is a representation of my feelings about how modern society digests Vincent Van Gogh's art and his sunflower paintings specifically. The lion is chewing on sunflowers very comfortably, maybe even bored. The lion represents society looking at artwork as a pretty painting of sunflowers, instead of a painful cry for acceptance from someone who was considered a weird outsider, poverty-stricken, starving artist suffering from mental health problems. I made this image in the hopes that it would inspire people to consider supporting the starving, poor artist's of our own time. Comfort Food is what people consider Van Gogh's work now, but during his lifetime there was not much comfort afforded to him.
(IG: @MeforeAday)
Print: 10 x 10
Original: 30 x 30 acrylic on canvas