Mass
visual information is an accepted part of our day-to-day
existence. Television, video, film and advertisements have
become our emotional fix; the characters take us on a fictitious
journey that affects our psyche in different ways.
“The
context within which we experience an event will determined
how that event is encoded and retained.” (Oxford Companion
to the Mind. - Richard L Gregory. 1987)
The
media, with its appropriation of painted images by past
masters, has created a specific genre that provokes an audience
into a stereotypical form of interpretation. My work is
concerned with the re-introduction of these images as paintings
within a contemporary context, enhancing their ambiguity
and giving them a true physical presence away form the celluloid
screen.
“
The artists of my generation feel that they can borrow freely
from any time and place to construct our own image. So called
pluralism means that you can locate yourself in different
periods of time.” (Eric Fischl 2000, Arthur C. Danto,
2001)
I am
concerned with the metamorphosis of the image so that it
becomes as high art, an icon, my interpretation of visual
information portrayed in paint.
“A
famous deffinition by Emile Zola called a work of art “
a corner of nature seen through a temperament” the
temperament or pesonality of the artist, his selective preferences
is part of the transformation.” (Art and Illusion,
Gombrich, 2002)
The
resultant painted image takes on a whole new meaning, it
becomes an ambiguous personification of the original, a
materialistic and honest sign of a modern culture.
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