"Atlantic Twilight"
Oil on Canvas
46" x 46"
Saturday, March 17, 2007
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1 comments:
This painting feels like somewhat of a break from the last few pieces posted. Being conceptually and visually more gentle to some extent. It has a soft quality.
Every now and then, I’m at a little bit of a loss for sharing some kind of feedback. So, I’ll just touch on my impressions of the piece.
The marks in the foreground with the brush seem to make sense more than those in the sky. The ones in the foreground have a relationship to the plants. With the sky, I suppose the marks could be related to the clouds, but it’s not as clear.
I say this because it invokes paintings (for me) that try to tap into people’s tacit or not so tacit possibly conditioned lust for van Gogh and other impressionists. I actually like the impressionists but am not convinced their works remain illuminating for people. In other words, I'm not sure if they further people's interest in things visual or with van Gogh foster a more generalized empathy from his paintings which serve at times as documentation of his struggles. But of course, that’s just speculation.
Anyway, I think that's something to consider. If there's logic to the impasto, why it’s used and if it more appropriate in certain places than others. If that's important.
On a side note, the foreground is of special interest to me as a field of abstraction and mark making, I love the variation of color.
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