Walter Logeman Art Project 2006-7
I deleted a lot but this one made it here. I don’t mind that the subject is an actor. I like it! There is another link in the chain of abstraction. The person, the script, the director, the actor, thefilm, the screen, and now all this processing… it is like a compost heap.
#0794 Mark Rothko 1
Larger Image.
One of the highlights of my gallery experiences was to see a Rothko in the San Francisco MoMA. He does something, one thing, fully. He was moved by his own work and wanted others to feel moved. He does that. Seeing art live is different from seeing prints. or images on the screen. There is a lot of movement in the colour.
More about Rothko, his work, and more about my sketch follows:
I am involved in a discussion about digital art. There is a big variety of stuff that could be lumped under that name.
The trees are done using real media emulation (RME) (Has any one ever used that acronym?). There are some media that are flat on the surface, pencil, ink, dye and so on. There are some that have depth, like oil. In my opinion the flat stuff emulates well. The fake depth is kitch. I use it all the time!
But what I rarely do is filter images to produce effects. Just as part of the conversation I did that with this tree. I will keep avoiding it I think.
What I don’t avoid is to use the digital media to the full for getting the colours I want and to do other post production work. I also like the “negative” work in the Incantations.
But this computery flare?
What do you think?
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They are not purely imaginal trees, I have been noticing the stark outline of the trees against the bright spring sky. That looking has come through but almost un-noticed, it just doodles out.
Purely imaginal trees, this one and the next.
Pallet? Palette? Its nice to have one.
This is from noticing the ground in New York – steps into shops and so on. our relationship to crossing over lines, and colours all day. Often quite worn & drab, but with luminosity at times shining through. So this is one with the brush set to paint. Paint Steps.
