This is mere speculation...
I would love to work as an artist. I don't need a lot of money, fame or people licking my shoes (I would not refuse that if it happens). If I can make a living with my art, thats all I need. So, this is my plan: I will have a little house or department that it will be also my workshop, I will have enough money to pay the rent, the internet connection, buy vegan food, materials and wine. I will work all day long, but in the end of the day I will see my work and I will feel terrible because its not enough so I will drink all the wine - in just one shot -, after that I will puke the vegan food and lay on the floor in pure sadness.
Maybe I will become an art teacher... a sinister art teacher who will discharge his frustration on his students. I will be a divorced man with a son who doesn't know him very well and hates him.
All this will end with a solitary suicide but no one will care about it.
So as you see I'm very optimistic about the future, but the present is full of joy and that's the most important now.
miércoles, 28 de octubre de 2015
miércoles, 21 de octubre de 2015
An artist that I admire
Francis Bacon.
Francis Bacon it was an Irish-born British figurative painter. It's well known for the deformations he introduced on the people he painted and the use of out-of-context references.
I admire him because he was so dedicated to his work and he made incredible pieces of art. Bacon truly revived painting when a lot of people said it was dead. He represented on the canvas the most deep feelings of the human being (also the aggressiveness of his own sexual life). I also like his technique: how he used the brush-stroke, the relationship between the parts with a lot of oil and the parts with just a few of it, the composition was simple and effective, the synthesis for certain parts it was very effective too. It's also important to consider the relation of Bacon and the art history (Velázquez and his portrait of Inocencio X, the Furies, the references to Rembrandt, etc) and how he used the photographs as reference. He transformed the oil into flesh (suck that Jesus).
I think these and other things could be good reasons to consider him an interesting artist, but I think you have to have the experience of see and analyze his work and judge for yourself, give it a try.
One of my favorites: Seated figure 1974
Francis Bacon it was an Irish-born British figurative painter. It's well known for the deformations he introduced on the people he painted and the use of out-of-context references.
I admire him because he was so dedicated to his work and he made incredible pieces of art. Bacon truly revived painting when a lot of people said it was dead. He represented on the canvas the most deep feelings of the human being (also the aggressiveness of his own sexual life). I also like his technique: how he used the brush-stroke, the relationship between the parts with a lot of oil and the parts with just a few of it, the composition was simple and effective, the synthesis for certain parts it was very effective too. It's also important to consider the relation of Bacon and the art history (Velázquez and his portrait of Inocencio X, the Furies, the references to Rembrandt, etc) and how he used the photographs as reference. He transformed the oil into flesh (suck that Jesus).
I think these and other things could be good reasons to consider him an interesting artist, but I think you have to have the experience of see and analyze his work and judge for yourself, give it a try.
One of my favorites: Seated figure 1974
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