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The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the South. The landscapes offer me form; the people I've met in these places give them color.
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.
Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.
Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement.
Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.
Certain art hungers for context.
My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.
In the beginning was the image.
I'm like the wallpaper, there but barely noticed.
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
Through the side window, a screen of late-afternoon sunlight is projected onto the wall. Shadows of birds flit across it.
Some shadows are sharp, some shadows are blurry.
I've seen them before in another time and place.
In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard ...
The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.
Add your splash of color to the world.
What simple and
ordinary lives we live,
underneath the shadows
of projection screen
artists
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.
You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.
Stripes on their backs. The twentieth century
THE STRIKING CONTRAST
I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the way of this feeling.
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
Cover design by Phil Rose
The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way of informing, and in what it informs of, it is my source.
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
As for the subject matter in my painting ... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.
Shadows of what you'll become. Silhouettes.
The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.
I want shade, I want shade and anonymity.
from "The Departure
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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.
Ll dark hair and blue smudges in the moonlight.
Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition.
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!
Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.
Mama, black and white is boring, deep within the gray is where the real action is.
Your face is the face of all the others
before you and after you
Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.
The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.
I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.
A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities ...
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.
Why the war paint, Pix?
Because I can't stand the girl underneath....
"Why the tattoos ?"
Because I can't bear seeing the scars of my past.
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
What has reasoning to do with painting?
I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.
Turner watercolour
A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.
So you want to know all about me, Who
I am
What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted
the face
you see? what made me despise the girl
in the mirror
enough to transform her, turn her into a stranger,
only not.
Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.
I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.
While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.
The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer
Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
A photo is a creation.
After the shadows comes light.
Cities and roads
I have never seen
Are in the background of your photos
Yet, I don't feel
How faraway you are
We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.
Photography has no dark sides!
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.
Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.
Pay attention to your visual themes.
In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.
The girl with the pictures on her skin
Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.
The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.
In this fleeting life, there is nothing stronger than a visual idea or moment stopped in time forever. And nothing does this better than a black-and-white photograph.
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
In the reflection I see my shoulder-length curly brown hair. My lime-green pajamas. My striped slippers.
Looking for art, the theme gets lost.
Finding the theme is finding art.
I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.
I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.
The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.
If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it
A world of colors on the palette remaining ... wandering ... on canvases still emerging.
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.
I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.
We often walk without knowing the beautiful and the mysterious art created behind us by our shadows.
The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.
Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.
Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.