there is a device that I've...
there is a device that I've read about that makes oscillating sort of patterns, Its basically a bucket of paint with a hole in the bottom hanging off a piece of cable and once you pull it back and let it go it swings around in these very regular patterns. I know its not what you want to do but thinking of the pollocks and super graphics made me think of it. Be cool to try layers of it in different colours.
Perhaps a funnel would be better.
Barry,
Again missing the mark. The 'attacks' aren't attacks, nor are they 'personal'. They are responses to a histrionic overreaction that derailed this thread, and similar responses that have derailed numerous other threads. This thread isn't about YOU. Whether YOU get the humor or not. Look around...EVERY other person who read this thread (including Riki herself) got the joke. If YOU can't handle that it's YOUR problem.
Pollock and Klein
Love Pollock. There's an hilarious scene at the opening of 'Shortbus' (amazing movie - def. not for kids) in which a character makes a contribution to a Pollock.
For the sheer hilarity of it read up on Yves Klein. He was a predecessor of Pollock who tried to remove the artist's 'hand' from his paintings. (he used a roller. And, on occasion, naked women) I still have no idea if the man was a great artist or simply a great comedian.
Also, love this link below.
http://www.missoandfriends.com/misso/create/jackson-pollock/index.php
Play nice, boys
Of course it was a joke. The entire apartment is a joke. It is a furnished apartment, i.e. nothing in there is mine. It came that way and it is entirely furnished in IKEA, from the duvet covers to the coffee mugs. The apartment is so sterile it's like living in a gulag cell in outer Siberia.
I just thought it would liven things up a bit to show you my tres naive attempts at oil painting, keeping in mind the fact that the last "art" I ever painted was giant cheerleading posters on Kraft paper for the football players to run through at high school football games.
I'm enjoying everyone's comments and am intrigued by what Heath means by "flattening pieces of timber". Are you replaning old wood for your furniture projects?
Riki...just for the record
this all started when I posted photos of my living room and instead of people acknowledging the furnishings, instead I got "room's too cluttered".
I traditionally have made such comments and I didn't appreciatew the comments or think it was funny.
Nothing more or less.
So I might over-react, but at no time did I start making snotty or humorous comments about what people post from their own personal space.
Nowadays, either people make comments about stuff I post, or my stuff gets ignored.
Hardly ever get any kind of compliment these days.
Creative spirit
Riki, I think you should delve back into those early works, dredge up the creative spirit you felt back then, and perhaps incorporate it into your current body of work. I'm thinking maybe you have football players leaping through the works presently above your couch?
Altho you ARE in Europe, where football (futbol) takes on an entirely different meaning (something we in America refer to as s-o-c-c-e-r). A conundrum.
Concerning the bitter...
Concerning the bitter discussions that have developed in this thread.
The solution to avoid them is very simple:
more SENSE OF HUMOR:
"Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves. People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. The majority of people are able to be amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and thus they are considered to have a "sense of humour."
A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, although the extent to which an individual will find something humorous depends on a host of variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, intelligence, and context."
and less PARANOIA:
"Paranoia is a thought process characterized by excessive anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. In the original Greek, παράνοια (paranoia) simply means madness (para = outside; nous = mind). Historically, this characterization was used to describe any delusional state."
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To return to the thread.
Dear Riki, it's always a pleasure for a painter like me to see somebody explore painting without complex and with enthusiasm. If you continue to paint, you will discover quickly that with this type of painting, the success is due to the control of the tensions and the details that one can roughly summarize in several points:
1. The interaction of the colors is the first point to control and you manage this already very well.
2. The relation between form and color. By using a colour gradient of warm colours in your Swiss flag, you make a good choice because the initial shape of the cross is expanding and the phenomenon of expansion is physically associated with the heat.
3. The joints between the coloured zones: hard and distinct or alive and vibrating?
4. The treatment of the support. Obliterated, hidden by an opaque painting or rather revealed by empty spaces or by the transparency of the painting?
5. Matt or shiny? The variations of brightness have the effect of " moving forward" or " moving back" the zones of the canvas.
6. The relation to the space (out of the canvas). Is the shape constraint within the frame or does it virtually continue outside the physical space of the canvas like in your "Switzerland flag"?
etc etc, the list could still be very long.
The sum of the choices to operate concerning all these points and the more or less happy interactions between them have for consequence that the apparently simple practice that consists in posing abstract coloured forms on a canvas is a rich and complex experiment that is unsuspected by many people who did not give a try to this exercise.
Enjoy your painting and continue to share it with us.
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