April, May, June are exploratory months. I try and push ahead with the work and see what comes up.I made a deliberate choice this week to look at the work of two artists, Richter and Tuymans. Then set myself the task of applying what they do to my own work. Its an uneasy task, and it feels all a bit wrong, but then I remind myself that artists always look to the masters in their field for knowledge.
The most pleasing outcome was the section of vase at the foot of the flower painting. This has the minimal touch of Tuymans, the blur of Richter, and yet it was the area that came most spontaneously from myself. I have been alluding to this treatment of a glass vase for over a year now. This time I got somewere close.
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Mmm, interesting, I like them. I'm reading a book loosely about Escher at the moment and the author talks about the way Escher uses negative background space to create an alternate foreground. He uses it as a way of showing that it's possible to perceive form from what's not there. He does this to demonstrate something about mathematics! However, this reminds me, albeit loosely, of the picture on the left and also (but to a lesser extent) the picture on the right too.
Did you drop the one on the right?
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