Sunday, 14 November 2010

time & memory ; minimalism & impressionism.

i am no skilled artist and/or painter by any stretch of the imagination, but watercolours are the only medium really lending themselves to my ideas at the moment.
as contradictory as it sounds, minimalism and impressionism have become important lines of research. they both have qualities that when dissected and interweaved back together, give a good impression of what i currently believe memories to actually "look like". in a painting this ultimately gives a childlike looking expression.


1&2 show how important blue & orange (opposites) are to my childhood memory, and a detachment from my younger self.
3&4 are school memories. i found these harder to paint because of the emotional attachments i have with these moments.

key elements
minimalism; order, simplicity, geometry, structure, "a highly purified form of beauty"
minimalism can most commonly be associated with installations and white walls. this could be another route of memory representation.

impressionism; light, colour, brushwork, atmosphere, dream.
i am not so much interested in the subject matter - more the style and use. impressionist paintings can be distinctly complex in their simplicity - they are built by single brush strokes, each one integral.

my project is becoming more a study in the essence of memory, rather than the specific memories in themselves.

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