As I started to think of the works less and less as portraits, other questions started to come up and other things started to interest me more about
the actual nature of the painting itself and what that did to the subject rather than what the subject did to the painting.
Not exact matches
The
actual paint handling is about the experience
of viewing Courbet's large
paintings in person, his physical handling
of paint between
nature and the figure, chaotic, thick vs smooth.
While the abstracts hint at elemental imagery, earth, wind, fire, and water, the newer Everglow
paintings capture
actual images
of nature, woods, plants, animals in their natural environment.
However in art the image is not the art, and the transformative
nature of Mr. Prince's enlarging, printing, collaging, and
painting is a lot more evident when comparing the
actual photo to the
actual painting.