A Chosen Topic
Since I wrote that back in October, a lot has changed in terms of my art- I have completed a dissertation based around the sublime, with particular reference to the size/ scale of an artwork, given a presentation on the work I’ll be producing this year and above all started to produce work based around my chosen topic.
The topic I have chosen to explore is Colour. I say ‘chose to explore’, what I really mean is after looking back at my previous work the topic more or less chose itself.
While it’s true that the artwork I have produced in my past two years has varied greatly aesthetically and conceptually, there has been one underlying constant throughout- my use of, and interset in, colour. Up until this point my use of colour has been secondary to whatever it was I was exploring with my art. It was a bi product of my paintings and not my sole subject. I think my dramatic use of colour was either out of aesthetic necessity (as in my John Frusciante painting) or a subconscious inclination as with my more abstract works.
Whatever it was it seems like the perfect topic to base my next five months of work on. The topic isn’t so broad that its overwhelming nor is it too limited so as to constrain my work to any one thing. I plan to explore all types of colour in as many instances as I can imagine. I want to begin with a large scale portrait of one of close friends. The original image is in black and white, and at first it seemed as if painting the image in black and white (with complementary colours used to create more convincing tones) would be conceptually more appropriate- due to my friends bi polar disorder.
However after thinking about the painting, and what i want to address, it seems more fitting to use as many bright and contrasting colours as possible.
