Space as the result of process. I have been thinking about contrast in several different forms since someone asked me if I paint light to dark, or dark to light. The answer is neither. After setting up the painting, I have a process of pulling the lights and pushing the darks. I end up defining the representation of a space through the difference, or contrast, of the pigments.
Deleuze is still very slippery for me... I see Warhol being on the opposite side of the spectrum. Identity as result of imposed categorical thinking.
I have been thinking that I need to employ contrast across images and paintings. Contrast in subject matter, using it to illustrate a larger space.
Deleuze mentioned Monet's water lilies as being repeats of each other, but not the same.
Could that same notion be extended across the changes a landscape undergoes?
How about changes to a mental landscape?
All of these are good questions I think. I'm excited about reading dense texts and trying to relate them to painting.
Stay tuned...
Apr 21, 2007
A bit more progress on the FDR painting
This one is proving difficult! I am still getting tripped up by the colors and nuances. Completion seems far off.
Colors are varying wildly across the painting. As long it doesn't fracture value wise, I think it could be to a good effect.
I still need to make the water look frozen and make the clouds more atmospheric. But the general paint style I have been cultivating is there. Even though that style seems to rely upon contrast.
I think I have adequately set up the larger contrasts in this painting—between the sky, ground and water. But the nuances within those areas are mind boggling to say the least. A lot of work to do there still.
Feel free to comment!
Colors are varying wildly across the painting. As long it doesn't fracture value wise, I think it could be to a good effect.
I still need to make the water look frozen and make the clouds more atmospheric. But the general paint style I have been cultivating is there. Even though that style seems to rely upon contrast.
I think I have adequately set up the larger contrasts in this painting—between the sky, ground and water. But the nuances within those areas are mind boggling to say the least. A lot of work to do there still.
Feel free to comment!
Apr 17, 2007
Grad School?
I want to go. I am researching schools and programs for the next few months. If you have any suggestions that you think I should know about, please leave me a comment!
Superficially, I am interested in applying to Tyler School of Art, Yale, and Upenn.
I'd like to find a program that is receptive to painting w/ an ecological focus. I am not interested in going somewhere that will say "You need to take painting out of the square man! The wall hegemony is fascism!" Already experienced a pedagogy that advocates tearing down conventions, and I found it to attack the very core question of meaning itself. I would be a post-modern self referencing ironic artist if it didn't make me so apathetic!
I want to be in an environment that nurtures and challenges my painting without being close-minded to the more radical ideas I learned at 3 Rivers 2nd Nature.
It wouldn't hurt if they paid me to go too. (Takes Yale out of the running for sure)
Superficially, I am interested in applying to Tyler School of Art, Yale, and Upenn.
I'd like to find a program that is receptive to painting w/ an ecological focus. I am not interested in going somewhere that will say "You need to take painting out of the square man! The wall hegemony is fascism!" Already experienced a pedagogy that advocates tearing down conventions, and I found it to attack the very core question of meaning itself. I would be a post-modern self referencing ironic artist if it didn't make me so apathetic!
I want to be in an environment that nurtures and challenges my painting without being close-minded to the more radical ideas I learned at 3 Rivers 2nd Nature.
It wouldn't hurt if they paid me to go too. (Takes Yale out of the running for sure)
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