in a one horse open sleigh
here is something i did a couple of months ago. Was it that long ago? It is fairly large done mostly in oil and alkyds. It is my latest version of ambigupop.... its the latest dance craze at a party for one. If you end up here feel free to comment. I'm not sensative.
posted by poppy at
9:36 PM
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Interesting painting. Could you elaborate on your inspiration for it?
I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.
i like the pop-camo background on this one and spidy below, the patterns are the best part for me.
artgirl- a little pop art a little ambiguity a little expressionist a little other stuff. didn't actually realize that Warhol had done the camo thing at the time when i started doing paintings like this a couple of years ago, was still in school. Ambiguity was rampant in my school at the time. nobody seemed to have a good reason for it.. the ones that talked about subject matter looked just like the ones that couldn't care a less about it. In a way - a reaction to this, a way to foreground this. Also i was a janitor for last semestar of school. used many found ambiuities from trash etc... for longest time i just worked with what looked like an envelope, a funnel or some sort of vessel, and a ghost thing. if i think of anything else to say i will add.. I have to go eat supper now.
I like everything about the painting. Background-nice balance. Funnel shape- cool, ambiguous. 3 tiered shape - funny. Pattern. Wow. very nice.
Hey
Thanks for the critique. I understand what you are saying about the trees and houses but the paintings are based on images of the Southern landscape. Most of the images come from cotton fields or slowly decaying houses and barns that are near these fields. A lot of times I paint the trees black because of the way the light hits the trees on the horizon (field line). It gives a stark contrast to the sky and the field. I liked the Johnson guys work. I like how he paints something like a light post and then subtracts some of the boldness with the color and stroke of the surrounding sky. Please mark my blog and check it from time to time. I have several paintings to add and I'm interested in your opinion. I enjoyed getting everyone riled up on the NYC blog. I dont have anything against art school grads. A friend of mine teaches at Monmouth College outside of Chicago and we recently had a talk about contemporary art. He hates the whole smartass, wink wink type art that is being produced today. Its like if you dont have a gimmick then you cant make any head way in the artworld. I paint because thats what I do. Not because of the money or fame or women or etc. and it seems like these new painters only ambition is to make money and be famous. To me thats not what art is about. Its about going with your gut feeling and painting what you see and how you see it with little regard to what galleries or art critics have to say. When someone critiques a painting I fully listen to what they have to say. I take it all in and think about it and then I say to myself "you know they have a point or I think they dont totally understand the painting" or a response somewhere between the two. Again, thanks for the critique. Its nice to hear someones opinion on my work. Maybe we can trade works on paper sometime in the near future. I dig your work. I want to take sometime and look it over a little better before I comment on them but from a first glance perspective I liked them. (Please comment here or on my blog so that I will know that you have read this)
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hi!
This looks like a bad east village paintinge circa '82...those cloud shapes maybe got something going for them but abstract clouds/doo-doo formations are kind of played
kind of reminds me of that guy who blew up late 80s early 90s , name I always forget, not sean landers not sean scully, some name like that--his whole work is based on exploring rigorous manifestations/distillations of his doodles, very po-mo in color and theory, just had a book come out.cant remember......
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