Showing posts with label untitled. Show all posts
Showing posts with label untitled. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Sun and shadows ...
just showed up, on a newer version of the untitled figure/ground ... (Must remember that Manet and Braque show us what blacks and browns can do and for whites: Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and Julie Mehretu) ... When I see these overlays of sunlight and shadows, it makes me wonder: the painted figure and ground, the object and its setting, are here covered over by patches of sunlight which is, in turn, covered over by the shadows of the brushes... where is figure and ground now?
Monday, July 4, 2011
Figure/ground seeks title....
A few lines from a Wallace Stevens poem follow up on yesterday and lead to the next version of that same untitled painting, below:
... The sky is too blue, the earth too wide.
The thought of her takes her away.
The form of her in something else
Is not enough.... (Section IV, from "Bouquet of belle Scavoir")
The background has grown more blue, a little green, some yellows, and the form is still taking shape, and is (not yet) "enough":
... The sky is too blue, the earth too wide.
The thought of her takes her away.
The form of her in something else
Is not enough.... (Section IV, from "Bouquet of belle Scavoir")
The background has grown more blue, a little green, some yellows, and the form is still taking shape, and is (not yet) "enough":
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