RE: From Old Closet
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So this aspect of oil painting is what I love it the most:) No other paint will give you this. You can put layers and layers diluted paint, and create a depth of colour that no other medium can match. I actually miss that. I recently bought oil sticks(it is just compressed oil paint) and I really want get into it. But only few colours, we will see what happens:)
I'm the type of person that looks at these "artefacts" of creation a lot more than I often look at the "work" itself, and that is a fascinating part of the process of digesting and devouring art.
I like playing with pictures this way, but because it is my old painting, and the one I 'rejected' as well I just cannot bare look at it more than it is necessary to put article together :D
I just want to do new, better stuff:)
devouring art
I very much like this expression.
When I was at art school we went to an exhibition of Beksinski's work, it was very shortly after his tragic death. There were dozens of paintings there. (I don't know how much you know about him, but the guy was not only tireless - but very fast painter, he could finish a painting within a day).
I looked at each painting for long minutes. They were exhibited in several exhibition rooms, and when I reached the final phase of his work (the last room contained mainly paintings of crosses) - I vomited. Literally. Fortunately, I managed to make it to the trash bin, but I felt so emotionally and spiritually gutted that my body simply gave up.
Then, instead of just walking out I sat on a bench in a hall where most of the work illustrations of his dreams, like this one.
I looked and looked. I couldn't feast my eyes or my senses. I didn't want to leave.
In one episode of the series 'Hannibal', one of the characters 'Red Dragon'(a murderer who believes he is transforming into the 'Great Red Dragon') eats Blake's beautiful painting 'Great Red Dragon'.
He actually devours it to make the ultimate transformation complete.
Not that I identify with him... but I appreciate the devotion:)
You know, looking at this images made me feel uneasy in the stomach. I'd not seen the work before; but they tend to have an otherworldly feeling about them. They don't seem to grounded in the typical rules of physical reality. Feels like what we'd get if Dali had a better grasp on the physics that govern how things are constituted.
Surrealism, but without the "picture book" quality. Thanks for sharing, I'm gonna struggle to finish my Almond Milk chocolate protein powder breakfast now :D
Yeah, they are strong. But to be fair - that was their purpose. Beksinski he began to paint to get rid of the nightmares that tormented him, both in his dreams and when he was awake. That was his self-medicine. Let it all out. That's why he was working so fast, he had entire scene in his head already.
Yeah, I would say that Dali cared little to none of physics:) My favourite works of his are suspended in a void.
So sorry about that. Next time I'll put up a warning notice:)
I got through it okay :D It's only a warning notice if you truly "understand" the work.