Doig «sdescription of the subject exemplifies much of
the intended experience of his paintings.
Not exact matches
Grabelsky explains: «These
paintings are not
intended to be viewed as fantasy or as allegory, but rather as a blend
of every - day
experiences with the subconscious.
Heidegger speaks
of human beings as Dasein, as «being there,» and it is part
of the
intended experience of Newman's
paintings that our thereness is implied by the scale
of the
paintings themselves.
Visitors are invited to observe airborne and earthbound geometric constructions saturated in bright colours; examine his Bólides (Fireballs), interactive composite objects filled with sand and other substances, which were
intended to be handled by viewers; dance samba in one
of his Parangolés, capes designed by the artist to be worn by the public; play billiard on a pool table that is supposed to send you back to the atmosphere
of Vincent Van Gogh's
painting The Night Cafe; and
experience immersive exotic or unfamiliar environments, as in his installations Tropicália (1967) and Eden (1969).
Though often reminiscent
of traditional landscape
painting, these deeply personal
paintings are not
intended to reproduce nature, but function as a thoughtful interior meditation on the
experience of being located in those spaces and experiential contexts.
Gerard Mosse evokes light in
painting and watercolors, in layered compositions
intended to suggest the registration
of personal
experience and identity.
Rather than
experiencing transcendence from something hidden within the
painting or from some interpretive element in the work, the only transcendent
experience Stella
intended for viewers
of these
paintings to have came from the psychological relief
of being allowed to interact with an aesthetic object on its own terms.
Like the Survey and Decal series, the Test Pattern series
intend to refer to technological and social conditioning, or the abstraction
of contemporary
experience, and also the potential for transcending that conditioning by grasping it in the physical and perhaps less - determined form
of paintings on wood panel.
Inspired by the black
paintings of Ad Reinhardt and the date
paintings of On Kawara, Scott created a series
of «target»
paintings consisting
of black and white concentric circles that appear identical with only slight variations,
intending to remove the aspect
of qualitative judgment from the viewing
experience.
Intended to be «read» — literally — by the viewer, Higgs» «Reading
Paintings» are an attempt to gently animate the rationale
of the artwork and the viewing
experience itself, whilst at the same time creating a vehicle for Higgs to make public his enthusiasms.