Is it really a painting?
I wasn’t sure if the divisions of paper were really drawings
David Manley suggested ages ago that I add colour. I liked the idea and now I am working with the same theme (more or less) only this time with paint on canvas. I ‘m not sure I could really call it a painting.
Lattice, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12"
Dare I ask – does it do anything for you?
Well I guess this falls into the ‘I would say this’ category…but I like it…and I thnk scale would be really interesting…in the first instance – say – a metre square?
David Manley
May 3, 2012 at 8:25 am
Thanks for another comment that takes me somewhere interested that I probably would not have gone to left to my own devices. (the joy of art blogging). I think you may be right about the scale, just when I am attempting to work smaller. I will come back to it later and increase the size to a square metre and see what happens.
Andy Parkinson
May 4, 2012 at 7:13 am
I LOVE the color added to your work. There is so much more depth to it with the colors. Instead of my eye being drawn to the few lines that became closer together or thicker than the others I no longer see the
organization of the lines themselves; Instead my eye is drawn to the depth I see where the yellow are as if I could peek between the lines and view something through the other side.
OrganizationAccessories
May 3, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Thanks for your comment. It sounds like what you are saying is that the drawing becomes less important and the organization of the colour becomes the focus.
Andy Parkinson
May 4, 2012 at 7:18 am
I like it, and I think it can be a drawing and a painting. The two go hand in hand at times.
sbmacinnis
May 3, 2012 at 8:35 pm
I like it and I would call it a painting. One and the same sometimes.
Jo Dalgety
May 3, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Thank you Stephen and Jo for your helpful comments, in a way I am splitting hairs. in another way I am attempting to connect to the debate in aesthetics and art theory about “disegno versus colore” I like David Batchelor’s work on this subject. The starting point for his criticism of the devaluation of colour is an acient quote from Charles Blanc: “The union of design and colour is necessary to beget painting just as is the union of man and woman to beget mankind, but design must maintain its preponderance over colour. Otherwise painting speeds to its ruin: it will fall through colour just as mankind fell through Eve” (!) Batchelor’s response is the flourescent monochrome where colour is ‘freed’ from line and allowed to function on its own.
Andy Parkinson
May 4, 2012 at 7:36 am