It was about a year ago that I started flashing away when taking pictures. That of course is not a good idea at an artshow. Therefor this gallerist got kind pissed off.
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Anyhow, I want to keep it short because the painting and me aren’t friends yet.
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It’s colorful but I don’t like the colors, they seem to miss complexity. Than, what the colors miss on complexity, the compotition makes up for. Beeing a total ballbreaker. Okay, there I’m proud of but why can’t I like them both?
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I figure that will need some time.
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Ow, If you are wondering why on the painting this guy doesn’t look pissed. I didn’t want to show this guy like that since it was my fault that he acted like he drank a bucket of piss anyways.
While a lot of people have already asked me if I’m aware of the fact that this may make people think it is a Mondrian rip off, I am happy to be back into applying de Stijl to my work. This is my main concern in painting, it is a language I am trying to learn.
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After finishing this I have the exact feeling that I now know the answer of the question: why do I like the picture that I bought at the fleamarket in Berlin. Why did I pick this picture, among others, from a box with hundreds of pictures? Of course I could have explained this verbally but it would miss that what it makes it an image. If you want to answer this question without translating it to letters and words, than de Stijl is the language to communicate in.
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Okay, the result is not the virtous picture with a shitload of expression or a deeper meaning and also not a social/politically engaged work. Now, it’s a reaction from itself about itself placing it somewhere in the universe.
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At this moment I’d better shut up.
It is wellknow that most times a flash kills more than it adds to a photo. This picture was a great example for that.
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The picture I used was flashed straight in the face, resulting in this lady in a uniformlike costume without an expression. Her face plain white like a mask.
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Giving me the oppertunity to play around with a shitload of white paint. But on second hand, I think I should take it easy with the titaniumoxide.
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With the other paintings to not overdo it.