Aiming to loosen my approach towards painting I started experimenting with free brushstrokes, more abstracted lines, whilst remain true to my idea of a portrait. In the process of abstraction I started delineating and overlaying my brushstrokes, aiming for a simplification of the face to a point of emotional representation.
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Bigger is not better
After having started to work on the small portrait of my grandmother, I made a bigger painting on aluminium, but failed to make it work. I was at it for 2 weeks, every day trying to make it work, but unsuccessful so. This was an extremely frustrating endeavour. In the process of failing with this …
Making things public lecture
Notes for the lecture: Speaker and listner Consumer and data AIMS What constitutes the public How to make a work public Relationship to the other as related to the viewer Who is the public and what is public Instagram and the value of it as a platform Choice of display t the public Making yourself …
working on aluminium
I invested in a polaroid camera and started taking images of my close ones. When using the camera I started experimenting with levels of exposure, when an image is made lighter or darker, using the flash, moving the camera whilst doing that. I use the image of my grandmother to make a painting on aluminium, …
Experiments
I started experimenting with my own ideas and tried representing an amalgamation of what I had seen enemy past gallery visits. With these works I was playing with the idea of layering wallpaper like patterns with a looser rendering go the portraits that I had been painting. Trying to embrace the variety of portraits represented …
David Huffman
I found deep interest in David Huffman’s use of geometry and abstraction. His planes move and collapse within each other, whilst at the time coherently working as a group of forms within one single plane. His use of colour is tempest like, making the different languages of painting work within and with each other. This …
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
This particular work is of great interest to me in the sense in the sense that it portrays and juxtaposes images of similar aesthetic and art historical founding. The artist’s use of linear perspective links up all the objects on the plane is of great visual value to me, in particular in the work below.
Johan van Mullem
I came across this artist in a gallery in New York and become fond of their way of describing portraits through hues and loose brushwork.
Sewing Machine Drawings
Greta Bratescu made those works whilst under the communist regime in Romania. She had limited materials at hand and often incorporated pieces of her mother’s clothing and textiles into her art. She used a sewing machine to turn drawing into a physically challenging act, one she compared to “sport”. These works express the artist’s long …
Gelatine silver print
The below works led me to look at more gelatine prints, and the process that it involves. The double image and highlights that the process of gelatine silver print within modernist art are brilliant. The above work was titled “Mask of a Dancer”. I found so many answers in its composition, and emotion. It is …
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