tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998420814250658360.post997435124081572244..comments2023-09-29T14:32:10.300+01:00Comments on _ cluck cluck: Without a horizon...Gesahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15808430595430298345noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998420814250658360.post-5122560880734935392008-10-30T20:17:00.000+00:002008-10-30T20:17:00.000+00:00I love vivien's work, and find the August Strindbe...I love vivien's work, and find the August Strindberg intriguing. It looks like an aerial view of the coastline, beach, and sea. Kind of interesting how it breaks right in the center.jafabrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04490900607853203086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998420814250658360.post-58793303016323047892008-10-27T12:28:00.000+00:002008-10-27T12:28:00.000+00:00Thanks, you two:Nice thoughts on the perfect momen...Thanks, you two:<BR/>Nice thoughts on the perfect moment in comparison to movement: it's the kind of patterning that goes on, again and again with regularity and variations. I really liked the sense of that in your sketches - in particular how the cp's pushed the oil paint towards that in a subtle kind of way, Vivien.<BR/><BR/>Steph - yes: he's done some great pieces with the water lillies (though I'm usually rather hesitant towards Monet) - you know the room in the Tate Modern where there's one pastel water lilly piece juxtaposed with a Rothko and a Pollock? That is just sublime because they 'talk to each other' - quite possibly precisely through the different ways in which they communicate by abstraction.Gesahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15808430595430298345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998420814250658360.post-86262024393792786092008-10-26T07:21:00.000+00:002008-10-26T07:21:00.000+00:00Yes, Gesa, they're both interesting examples of wh...Yes, Gesa, they're both interesting examples of what you're working on. I was telling my sister yesterday about Monet's abstract imagaes of the reflections in the 'waterlilies' series, in examples where he cropped the view so there's no horizon, no trees framing the scene, no architectue or figures to create a sense of scale. All he depicts are the waterlillies and the reflections around the of the trees and sky which are outside of the picture frame. My sister has previously defined, jokingly, an abstract as any picture which arrives at a gallery with instructions of which way up it should be hung.Yellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05975849028363084985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998420814250658360.post-29109643060869450412008-10-25T17:20:00.000+01:002008-10-25T17:20:00.000+01:00that Strindberg paintings is interestingI like the...that Strindberg paintings is interesting<BR/><BR/>I like the way you've analysed what I've done and picked up on what I was trying to achieve with that water :>)<BR/><BR/>I think it's essential to really really LOOK at the water, see how it moves, how movements repeat, the swells move in, then start to break ... the colour of the underneath of a breaking wave can be a beautiful glassy green that cries out for some viridian but always moving. I don't want to freeze a perfect moment, I want to paint the movement I see.vivienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16820836660470146799noreply@blogger.com