"Tomorrow"
Acrylic on stretched canvas
30"x24"
2003
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Chris Mackintosh
Posted by Dean at 10:14 AM
Labels: acrylic, Chris Mackintosh, painting
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3 comments:
This reminds me of the work of a grad student I saw at school when I was an undergrad. In a critique, I mentioned that the work looked like a bombing of sorts. That take looked so obvious to me, I was shocked when I found out that wasn't her intention.
The same thing's going on here. I see it was done in 2003, so taking the title and the color of the piece, it looks like the day before the Iraq War.
Makes me think of collateral damage and even those videos of bombers flying over Vietnam. When watching the videos, one doesn't see the devestation the bomb does to the people. The loss that the family of the victim has to go through.
Tragic.
Visually, I like the piece. I like minimalistic nature of how those diagonal lines create space by almost suggestion. Not sure where to go with feedback on tnis one.
For the sake of being a broken record, I'll mention that I'm curious to Chris's larger body of work. How this fits in. If this was a solo painting, or part of a series. That kind of thing.
i thought of iraq war too, it is very intense. the night before we saw a bumper sticker "be nice to america or we will bring democracy to your country". it also looks like rain, a zoom in on the drops crashing on the ground.
it is hipnotic, very beautiful.
I observe this artwork from a plastic point of view; it suggested neither war nor bombing to me; now it is more difficult to abstract to me of the subject but in the first visit it suggested passion to me. Plastic, the work is well resolute, balanced in its composition and the color; those diagonal lines are drawn up in several measures generating distance, depth; nevertheless, it seems to me that as much inferior black as superior red must have some variant in its same tones. If the “black rays” are stumped and has variant of grays and “smoke”, then rest of the work must also have it but per moments it gives the impression of a poster. Visually,I like the piece too.
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