Not exact matches
BB: «The work of the eyes is done» is certainly an interesting quote to hear
from an
observational painter, as is the notion that images are «imprisoned within...» Applied to your
paintings though, these notions speak to the kinds of interior spaces you
paint, the rooms of your house at different times of day, for instance, or your color, which can be muted, but also evokes a rich vision of everyday experience.
In a new video, produced by John Thornton, painter / curator Scott Noel discusses a lineage of
observational painting that spans four generations
from Edwin Dickinson to recent graduates of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Like the
observational painters, Bailey distances himself
from the classicists by emphasizing the lack of formula in his
painting process.
Walk into your prototypical
observational painter's studio and you are likely to find monographs
from modern painters such as Edwin Dickinson and Giorgio Morandi side by side with books on early Renaissance masters Masaccio and Piero della Francesca, as well as a tome filled with the prehistoric cave
paintings from Lascaux.
This professional - level class on Sunday afternoons during the 2018 - 19 academic year is a unique opportunity for young artists interested in developing their
observational skills in
painting from nature and working with other exceptional young artists.
In this week - long intensive, we will focus on
observational drawings and
paintings from still lives, interior perspectives, and
from live models.
By reducing the obligatory details, especially the background, in favor of speed of execution on a large - scale format (which he gleaned
from Abstract Expressionist
painting), and by maintaining simplicity of form (distilled by the artist for the sake of
observational necessity long before the emergence of minimalism), Katz was able to bring abstraction and observation, simplicity and speed into his singular pictorial language.
The
paintings» forms are produced
from observational drawings, works on paper, and collages.
Bell's balancing of the terms «abstraction» and «materials» is significant — especially with regard to the works
from 1978 on display here — by differentiating the absolute thingness of these
paintings from the allusions to the
observational world that you find even in something as densely materialist as Richard Serra's black oil - stick drawings.