By prioritizing
imagery over structure, however, «Under the Skin» fails to flesh out and fully develop the potential drama of these scenes.
Not exact matches
In interacting with the work
over a significant period of time, we felt that that the most compelling way to
structure the exhibition was to expose the common threads that run throughout this material: formal constructs such as grids / fields, verticality, pictorial
imagery, and repetitive sequences; content such as color as subject, element as subject, interest in early American history (particularly that of Massachusetts), discourse about other artists and art; and relationships to the history of poetry.
Karsten writes: «Weight's paintings are captivating for many reasons - his color sense is perfectly in tune with his mysterious
imagery, his realism is modified by the emotions of fear and anguish, and his compositions reveal a deep understanding of 2 - d image
structure... It isn't mastery
over materials that keeps me looking at Weight's work though - it's his crazy, compelling, haunted voice, and how he gives us a frank look at the unknowable world of individual emotional lives.»