Showing posts with label chance and accident in painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chance and accident in painting. Show all posts
Friday, July 8, 2011
By chance, again....figure/ground
I have applied the sunlight and shadows to the "Silks up against grass" painting, because it seemed to me unfinished, still:
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Francis Bacon said "I want a very ordered image,
but I want it to come about by chance."
Sometimes, I throw paint at one canvas and splatter a photograph on the wall as well. Or, I come home from a Matisse show and paint over everything in the studio with his blue. The photograph is still on the wall, rather intensified by its new blues and reds; the Matissean blues had themselves to be painted away.
But that sunlight and shadow that I photographed two days ago? It was a lucky accident. Something was missing from that painting -- I was tending towards too much middle ground -- that came back into it when the light and shade hit, so I have painted it in. The painting had reached this point:
But now is here:
Sometimes, I throw paint at one canvas and splatter a photograph on the wall as well. Or, I come home from a Matisse show and paint over everything in the studio with his blue. The photograph is still on the wall, rather intensified by its new blues and reds; the Matissean blues had themselves to be painted away.
But that sunlight and shadow that I photographed two days ago? It was a lucky accident. Something was missing from that painting -- I was tending towards too much middle ground -- that came back into it when the light and shade hit, so I have painted it in. The painting had reached this point:
But now is here:
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