Title of the Work of Art:

Witch 2

Date of Creation:
2014 - 2022

Genre:
Portrait
Period-Movement:
Neo Cubism, Deconstructivism
Technique:
Painting
Materials:
Original digital artwork
Dimensions:
Not Stated


Artwork Description:
A neo-cubist, deconstructivist portrait of a woman with luxuriant hair, her visage fractured into multiple perspectives in the cubist tradition. Derived from a collage of fashion magazine imagery, the work interrogates the notion of beauty—unconventional, predatory, even unsettling. Chiao contrasts the painter’s pursuit of ideal beauty with the superficial allure of fashion photography, rejecting the facile in favor of complexity, novelty, and the perverse. The result is a composition that is at once ugly-beautiful, challenging the viewer’s expectations and the conventions of representation.