Portrait of a tiger surrounded by abstract shapes by Lisette Rijkers

About "Portrait of a tiger surrounded by abstract shapes"

by Lisette Rijkers

About the artwork

The tiger is a fantastically beautiful animal to behold! A tiger's fur has a particularly beautiful pattern of stripes in white, brown and black. The tiger's head is imposing, a large mouth with impressive teeth and small eyes with which the tiger looks intrusively at you. With these small eyes, the tiger keeps an eye on everything, enemies and prey animals. And with its large nose, it can smell its prey from afar. A mighty beast, impressive and dangerous, but also beautiful to behold!
As far as I'm concerned, such a beautiful animal deserves to be beautifully captured in a special work of art. But a work of art that is unique, in which the tiger's portrait is depicted slightly differently from the rest and is therefore not standard.
This intriguing artwork uses two photos: one of the tiger and one of an abstract photo. This abstract photo shows a special stripe pattern. A pattern that, in my opinion, perfectly matches the tiger's fur. This abstract pattern was created by taking a photo of a glass object combined with a metal object.
In this portrait, the photo of the abstract pattern is nicely interwoven with the tiger's head. As if the tiger merges into the abstract image that is around him.
The eyes each contain the original, but distorted, photo of the abstract pattern in the original colours. These eyes are the focal point of this portrait.