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Published: 2005-05-02 01:11:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 1953; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 353
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This is a small piece I did experimenting with the ideas I had for my new work I want to do. I've been really interested in video as a fine art medium because of its ability to capture a moment better than any other 2D medium. Painting just canβt have the same effect that film can have. When you film someone, their conversation, a time in there life it or some form of performance art it can share that intimate moment in a more real way that just an image can. Well since Iβm studying painting mostly I'm seeing what relationships I can create between the two mediums. Once I developed with work some more I plan on writing about it more and I'll probably post it. As of now I'm still working on it and I think I need some feed back and critique. So I did this piece to see what new mediums might want to use. I'm painting the frames in a video similar to what I did with the piece "Kat on six panels" but in this work I'm intuitively design and laying it out on one panel. All my previous work has been very planed and I put a lot of planning in this work as well especially in the composition, but I'm allowing more things to happen more spontaneously which is a lot of fun. I'm not sure if I'm completely done working on this I might render out the upper frame more. Any ways tell me what you think.Oil and wax on panel, 7"x7"
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i really like the way you work, so natural at the eye but in the end so expressive to influence the spectator
love it!!
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so interesting your work and your paint
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Wow i really like this piece, and i like your thoughts on video and such. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with, but still don't give up your painting as this piece is really well done and quite striking in a somewhat subtle manner, not to mention your others as well. Nice work
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I'm not quite sure how to engage in all that "visual art student discourse", but I'll offer my opinion. It's a lovely painting which offers the viewer a chance to wonder what they're waiting for and why. It offers a chance to contemplate what they're talking to each other about while they're waiting, and I think that this procedure of drawing pictures in frames allows you to see the alterations in movement and expression while still enabling contemplation of their thoughts and motives. If you attempt to commit this to film, it takes away a lot of the atmosphere and makes it more mundane. So yes, I think this is a very good way of going about your exploration of time whilst still making the picture seem interesting. Perhaps there are other ways of doing this, but this is the method that seems to suit you best, from what I've seen of your other art.
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YES! less control on the process and getting that candid feel. A very big step. I think you should find the work between video and painting... what I'm thinking YOU would be perfect at trying would be filming something and editing it the way you want to see it (controlling the content) and letting the process contain intimate moments. Things like playing the film out of a projector onto canvas and the piece revealing a relationship with suggestive movement all the while remaining abstract, as abstract as what subjects in a film must be really thinking. Also there's so much time and movement just in the study of anatomy itself, I was really amazed when I had art teachers suggest to me comic books and masseus (incorrect spelling but... it's those people that know how to massage muscles the right way) over the usual classical studies, what you can discover is suggestive movement that provides a moment that doesn't just give a resonance but a fleeting action that feels as if drawing it can't capture it all, it comes down to the process of the marks and blah blah blah, but the very interesting thing is that each frame becomes a couple seconds in a movie, maybe not the beginning, ending or climax, but something. It's interesting when there are two subjects in a frame as well, you might want to experiment with that too. When two men are sleeping in a bed they can remain intimate, when one is sitting up wide awake and the other is asleep, we feel much more discontent of the man awake while the other is that much more... peacefully asleep. I don't know if any of these directions will take you where you want to go, but it seems like you've been doing a damn good job with you own ideas. Goodluck!
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I really love your work, and I just can't believe how young you are! Your work is skilled but does not look labored over. You just put down what you see without too much deliberation, it seems. Anyway, good luck and keep up the great work. Jenny Saville and Lucien Freud are two of my very favorite painters as well, along with Chuck Close, especially the work he's been doing for the last decade or so... it's truly amazing.
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your instinct to study time and moments interests the crap out of me
i feel that your thinking that film may be better suited for this may be misplaced. your painting is so on key. i knew it was dealing with time before i read your description. i think that time is a concept that is best explored with mediums that dont depend on it. film based mediums are all time based and though you may feel that it is more effective, i dont know if the end result would be as satisfying. i dont know if studying time through film would be as interesting for you and for the viewer. i like your paintings. i feel that you would have more control through painting because you are creating a moment not manipulating one that exists. um, like this piece here. i dont know how long this moment between these two people was. it could have been a fraction of a second or they could have sat like that for 5 minutes. you have given no evidence of time but i still know that it is about time. if you use film i dont think you would have the same effect. i feel film is literal, and i dont feel like you are.
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Thanks for the great critique I wasnβt sure if these "time based paintings" were going to work or not. I glad to hear that you got what I was going for. I agree about film being literal, and I also agree with your statement about time being best explored with other mediums, it makes it more interesting. My original idea was to have kind of large panels and have a lot of "frames" on it this piece was a tiny experiment to see what just 3 "frames" would look like, I also wanted to see how the medium would look and feel. It really means a lot to me that someone likes it. Itβs really different from my other work so I was very hesitant to do it I didnβt think anyone would be into it. I've been thinking of ways to combine my old paintings with my new ideas to narrow the gap between them a bit. Iβm excited to explore these "time based" ideas more. It's been a long time since I've had an insightful critique thanks, I really like your work as well I saw that you also had some time studies which I really loved, Iβve done some similar things as well they are a lot of fun.
I really like your signature itβs from a modest mouse song isnβt it? I love modest mouse I'm seeing them in two days I'm excited
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very creative! fun to experiment and this is very interesting... you have cool ideas! 
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i enjoyed reading your thoughts about this; the passion you put into it really shows
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Thank you, glad you think that. Itβs nice to hear how people respond.
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yikes... with that kind of talk i wonder how long you'll 'paint(the verb)'. the conceptual art mob is reaching out to you.
--just playing with you. not meant in mean spirit.
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lol! Yeah I think they are a bit. 
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well, after seeing kat on six panels, i think u might be interested in the art of animation.
Animation captures moments just like video does, but different from video, animation allows us to spend hours and hours on that one fragment of a second alone...before continuing to the next fragment of a second. A lot of artists have tried combining elements of animation into painting and vice versa. I hope this helps.
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Very cool experimentation. I like the capture of movement. I'm sure the wax gave this a lot of body.
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It's really something, how if you capture life in a frame it seems so much more beautiful. I guess we'd all see it if it was placed in front of us like this, like in a movie. I really admire the concept of this.
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.interesting...what sort of effect did you wanted to achieve with this wax, exactly?
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