There she is, the painting from epic win for irony. It appears that nowadays I’m also a cartoonist, making comics.
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Maybe it was already clear for a while that my work was evolving towards big pictures from a comic-book but it still surprises me. This I had never seen coming. I see comics as something not serious while making paintings, for me, is the most serious thing in the world. Maybe because it is not so much recognized. Something snapped and started transforming pictures not as usual in representations of universal harmony or something similar but in the story that I think of when seeing the picture.
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Acutally it comes down to the same thing although with a different approach. Instead of a clinical approach I gave fantasy and imagination some space to practice freely. As can be seen it results in a version of the picture that shows subject as a cartoon character. I emphasized the character that I imagined in the picture and adjusted the atmosphere so that it’s not necesairy a museum anymore. Of course there is a story to be told but that wouldn’t change the image so you might as well fill in the blanks yourself
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Oilpaint on canvas, 121x172cm
Now I see this picture online I’m not really convinced that the painting has been ended at the right moment. Therefor this little disclaimer that it is possible that you’ll see it back in a while after I’ve continued working on it.
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Revolutionary again. No, this painting will not change the world. It is, about, the first painting I’ve painted without picturing people on it without making it completely abstract. First of all, surprising for myself.
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But not finished, why? That’s because of the movement. It stops with beeing an attempt. It’s neither a pictural blur nor a thick stroke of paint. Also the things that should be able to be visible thru the movements’ blur are not as I’d like to see them.
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So there is space for improvement, wether that is on this canvas or on another, bigger, one, I don’t know yet.
By now I think it’s about time to make the theme of the next painting a bit more friendly. It’s probably a period that I had to get thru. Nothing wrong with refreshing the good old punk-attitude every once in a while. Just to reassure that the option is still open to give somebody the finger, maybe not even literally but in an attitude.
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The finger is a very powerfull gesture and, not surprising, one of my favorites.
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Nevertheless, when practising this gesture on a regular base it looses it’s meaning. That’s why now it’s time to move on to nicer thematics and don’t worry, I’ve got plenty. And besides that, this painting is not all about frustration, actually that is just a very small part but also, as more often with punks, the most visible. What this painting is also about is my new attitude towards ‘finishing’ a painting: less carefull and when doubting what to do, I made the choice in advance to choose the option that requeres the most paint to get deeper in the matter in a shorter time.
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So dearest viewer, I just found out that this rude gesture
is not ment for you but for me. Now my question arrises: what’s the difference?
After finding out that it’s perfectly okay to add text- and thoughtballoons at Mr. Crankypants I saw this painting standing in the back of the atelier. It was drying because earlyer that week I decided that it was finished.
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But what I was done with Mr. Crankypants (what took about 2,5 hours) I came back to this decision and decided it needed a whole lot more paint. And so I gave it a lot more paint.
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Yeah after I could tell you the cleu of the joke: the tekst balloon says ‘what’s up’ while the woman is taking a picture of something above her forcing her to look up. But that wouldn’t make the joke funnyer, instead it makes it even more corny.
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But what the hell
This painting make me feel really happy, simply because I think it is very funny. (I laugh about my own jokes because either I’m incredibly funny or I find the world slightly rediculous)
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Lately I tend to approach art from a less serious angle while at the same time I started to recognize more cartoonisch elements in my work.
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The cartoonisch part started after painting the older couple or even the light in the train. The reason that my serious attitude started to decline was because of a lack of shows outside my atelier, making me slightly cynical about the work that I’m doing.
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Happily this newfound cynism seems to work out pretty well for the images that are produced. They’re not so heavy, communicate better and are more open for personal interpretation. Maybe because I took the freedom to make them look like a cartoon and so they suggest to be part of a bigger story. Which of course is the case but the plot is not about the image, that only enables me to make corny remarks, now in the image instead of on the back, but about the medium aka paint. » Continue Reading…
Due to a fascination of anything that has to do with art, I choose to take a picture of a writing man. Due to that same fascination I didn’t want to paint any more that what primarily has to do with writing. All the other is abstract matter, which explains the low variety colors in the major part.
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Maybe this is another metafor for art (with what I mean things that are manmade without further use), just a very small part of it is essential. While the majority are just accidental side issues like style; catogorisation; value; theory etc.
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As long as the problem of an abscency is solved by the proces of making, nothing else matters. As that what is pictured in this work can be interpreted, this story also doesn’t matter.
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Or maybe it’s just irony that the work that is pictured in the picture above created an absency that is, on it’s turn solved by this story? And that writing this doesn’t look at all like that what is pictured in this painting.
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Next time I’ll paint something easyer, I promis.
Finally! Another painting after a long list of posts on photographs. Not that I mind photography, as long as it’s treated as a medium for recording light to make a registration of it’s manifestation at the moment the picture was taken, nothing more nothing less. It’s just that I would like to see this blog treating painting as it’s main issue. This is because I like looking at a painting than a looking at a picture picture.
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The picture I used to make this painting after is, for instance and to my judgement, is a good picture already and fun to watch. For a second I even thought about scanning and posting it but there are already enough pictures posted here and it wouldn’t make the painting better if it’s shown where it comes from. But what the picture can’t do and this painting can is simply amaze me with what it has become, even while going thru the entire proces of making it.
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First I thought about making this a long story explaining the mediate and immediate differences between painting and photography, but I don’t feel like it at all. If you really want to read a complicated statement on art, painting and what I think I’m doing you can read the artist-statement I wrote yesterday. » Continue Reading…