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| Unknown artist – I love the limited colour palette and figure dissolving or reflecting |
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| Bill Jacklin print – appreciating the mark making obliterating the figures and dark/light contrast |
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| Cristina Troufa – really like the drawingness and partial painting of the figures. There is enough information to construct the surrounding space as the viewer. |
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| Yigal Ozeri – pastoral setting? interesting use of shadow and downward viewpoint. |
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| Edgar Leissings – painting based on metamorphosis – awkward cramped figure folded into diagonal half of composition |
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| Hannah Hoch – abstract composite figure in outdoor setting, quite like the vertical split in the composition |
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| Ikeda Manabu – amazing cluttered drawing, tangles, squashed, breathing |
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| Gorkem Dikel – the foliage is reduced to patches of colour/abstract quality. Some areas have become flat – figures still sculptural. |
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| Julien Spianti – great limited, almost monochrome palette with light used to draw the eye into the bottom corner. Mangled, muddled bodies give instability to the painting – crowding v. space |
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Jure Zrimsek – like the awkward bent bodies cramped into the corner. Use of unnatural colours makes the image seem distantReflectionKey points to take forward from this visual gathering process are:Look out for use of positive and negative shapes in workThink about reducing some elements to flat areas of colour to simplify compositionExperiment with angles and diagonals as well as crumpled and awkward figure positionsConsider limiting the colour palette of paintings or using flat colour in areas rather than layersOne Month ReflectionAt this point I have explored these ideas much further. I have been playing with composition and how to use blocks of colour rather than literal descriptions of environment. Not sure how I feel about this at the moment although they seem more painterly rather than illustrative. I have also adopted diagonal compositions in most of my works to date which is helping to reduce detail and play with the sense of balance. |
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