New Study. (research)
New Project: Intimacy and sexuality.
Artist- felix gonzalez-torres
As installed for The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Projects 34: Felix Gonzalez-Torres"
May 16 - June 30, 1992, in 24 locations throughout New York City
Perfect lovers
My work-the idea (Playing) Tools of Reproduction.
I want to use this relationship between the everyday and the romantic representation to make a cast metal sculpture. Sketch from photoshoot. Figures refelceted. (outline for 150x200cm oil painting)
OIL painting (250cm in height, 200cm width.)
The style of this painting is unlike any i have attempted before. The scale of this paintings, nature of the reference picture and the fact that photo realist paintings now bore me, meant that this work has tackled the imagery in a personally unique way: A fluid and abstract use of paint. Devolving form my last project, a focus on on the nature of oil paint. The photo i took of these three figures came out a quite blurred, so abandoning any attempt at realism i changed my style, adapting it organically throughout the course of this painting.
While working I just stumbled the artist Cecilly Brown; Paintings created by this artist will continue to influence my work in the future. Brown started as a realist painter and developed her style by painting pornographic images which appeared blurred, until some of her paintings developed to simply abstract.
This style is one i want to develop within my own practice, and research further what i can do with the blurred image. Here is a sample of some of her work-
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/cecily_brown.htm
Annnnndddd-My arms are covered in oil paint, so i look like i have a skin disease and i may have nearly smoked myslef to death.... but here it is, ITS DONE!
the biggest oil painitng i have ever produced was completed for my uni dealine.
Three sleeping figures:Three boy/three girl. AndrogynousThree Figures.. almost dreaming
Open fall (almost) 2011.
