Peter Doig
Peter Doig’s landscape paintings project the suggestive realism and fantasy from beginning to end. Doig sets out, like many artists to tell a story or suggest things. His work became an interest of mine as soon as I began to look deeper into the landscape subject. His beautiful and mysterious paintings depict serenity and allow you to feel a state of peacefulness.
Things that I like about Doig’s work:
Colour
Bright
Technique- mark making
Reflection
Slight abstract presence in the movement of the paint rather that the composition
Magic
Many of the lists above are features that I love to try and attain in and throughout my practice. His work is simply beautiful and really eye catching. It also shows diversity in scenery which I find very different.
The mark making and brush strokes of Peter Doig’s create such depth and awareness. When using colour many of Doig’s work are either bright or blocky colour which in many ways I think works really well and in others he seems to strip back and focus on one colour which I also find fascinating. The balance between the two is what I love about his diversity and creativity as an artist.
White Creep- Image One
White creep is an image that I find particularly beautiful. I find it is simple and detailed at the same time whilst showing a silence and coldness through his depiction. His all colour palette also helps set this seen.
Words I feel describe this piece:
Clean
Fantasy
Simple
shadow
Concrete cabin- Image Two
Concrete cabin is another painting which has particularly taken my interest. It is almost as if he has painted two separate pictures and put the two together. The left hand side creates an abstract effect which is joined by what makes you think of an architectural sight. I find it very breath-taking how he manages to make the image work so well.
Words I feel describe this piece:
Lost
Hidden
Edgy
Depth
Light
All the words I list I feel are making me frequently look at these effects in my own paintings.
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