just ant
Tuesday 30 November 2010
Monday 29 November 2010
Wednesday 24 November 2010
abstralian austraction
today i think about australia and abstraction
or rather, as the title goes: abstralian austraction.
there is aboriginal art, post-modernist landscape abstractionists, sydney mob who generate flashy neo-abstract expressionist replicas, urban bansky stencil warriors and the occasional nature inspired painter. But what about vegemite and bark and eucalyptus and stuff?
I am just trying to understand what abstract means in terms of our culture, history and identity. Or does it even matter? Not sure that I even have an argument.
Yet I feel there is something vital in a whole heap of artists work...something that pierces the veil of the post-modern, conceptual, machine driven art world and exists as itself, without trying to be....i don't even know who has it, but i see it and when i do, it goes bOOm. you know who you are.
As usual, my attempt at intelligence is GAMMON.
Think i might paint in vegemite.
or rather, as the title goes: abstralian austraction.
there is aboriginal art, post-modernist landscape abstractionists, sydney mob who generate flashy neo-abstract expressionist replicas, urban bansky stencil warriors and the occasional nature inspired painter. But what about vegemite and bark and eucalyptus and stuff?
I am just trying to understand what abstract means in terms of our culture, history and identity. Or does it even matter? Not sure that I even have an argument.
Yet I feel there is something vital in a whole heap of artists work...something that pierces the veil of the post-modern, conceptual, machine driven art world and exists as itself, without trying to be....i don't even know who has it, but i see it and when i do, it goes bOOm. you know who you are.
As usual, my attempt at intelligence is GAMMON.
Think i might paint in vegemite.
Monday 15 November 2010
oh um...
if you want to check out some recent thoughts from
study land adventures...
here's a shameless self-promoting link:
this picture is there and some others
if you want to check out some recent thoughts from
study land adventures...
here's a shameless self-promoting link:
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| Imbi in studyland |
Tuesday 9 November 2010
smash it
species include:
cycad, erythrina, mango leaf, grevillea, melastoma and can't remember.
i then painted eucalyptus over the top.
mango leaf was blue.
now i am painting.
Wednesday 3 November 2010
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