Watch below a great interview with contemporary painter Charline von Heyl. Von Heyl uses some alternative painting techniques such as spraying, masking, taping, which we will experiment with during Wednesday's class.
Love her paintings! and... she's a good painter. One thing I would like to develop once I try out different techniques is a process, which I can then refine and play with. Its so difficult to get a grasp on what the painting can look like without first seeing how the paint can be worked through. -Max
This is a good film for me to watch right now. Even though I know better, I hold on to a seed of the notion that some people just proceed from beginning to the end of a work of art, that it is a painless process of forward motion with the occasional bathroom break but never a pause to curse or cry. This isn't true, of course. I've seen the drafts of poems that look like they were written for Creative Writing I by an untalented sophomore but ended up being "the greatest poems of the twentieth century" (I'm thinking of "Leda and the Swan" or "The Wasteland," for you readers in the group.) I know that about art-with-words and say I know that about painting, but I still have trouble tolerating the ambiguity of painting, the movement through stages that include unsightly and awkward as well as patches that I like but clearly have to paint over. The thing is to keep working. Chuck Close said something like "inspiration is for amateurs," that the most important thing is to work, that "stuff comes out of that." Or, in the immortal words of Tiffany, "So what if you fuck it up?"
I like the idea of using paint in different ways than just with a brush. I think it adds more to a painting, conceptually and visually. Using a variety of methods creates so much contrast right from the start. I'm beginning to understand how long a painting actually takes. I always knew a piece isn't normally created in just a few minutes or even a few hours, but it wasn't until I began painting myself that I really understood how much effort and time goes into a single piece. I'm not worrying so much about "mistakes" or brush hairs that are seen on whatever I'm working on. It's ok for something to get messed because you can always go back and fix it. ~Melissa
I really liked her outlook on her process. She embodies the aspect of making mistakes or letting loose because it is a start of a great painting and also by the fact that some mistakes lead to a better outcome. By watching the video, I can already distinguish her containing a great level of profesionalism in her personality as well as her work.
I like her work, in fact I have had many dreams abut it since seeing it on the computer. I find it organized, but not in a pedantic manner. I also think it takes great skill to show that, although the art is abstract, each piece has a sense of development througout it, not just a sense of repetition or monotony. I think this is done by a great sense of the line and its various forms, all throughout her work. - Allison Lewis allisonlewis0899@yahoo.com
I find Charline von Heyl's works to be very inspiring in my attempt to move towards abstraction; the "explosive" quality to some of her pieces and implied space with layers upon layers of different patterns is really eye-catching. I like her idea of "activating of space between the painting and the viewer," and I noticed that the "build up, build down, destroy it," comment she made reinforced the recent advice you gave us in class: you need to be willing to destroy your piece to make it great. -Shelby
Charline's work is very messy and she uses lots of patterns which contents geometry,in her work as well.She uses different line techniques and saturated colors. Charline has a different use of paint as she masks and tapes throughout her work.
Love her paintings! and... she's a good painter. One thing I would like to develop once I try out different techniques is a process, which I can then refine and play with. Its so difficult to get a grasp on what the painting can look like without first seeing how the paint can be worked through.
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This is a good film for me to watch right now. Even though I know better, I hold on to a seed of the notion that some people just proceed from beginning to the end of a work of art, that it is a painless process of forward motion with the occasional bathroom break but never a pause to curse or cry. This isn't true, of course. I've seen the drafts of poems that look like they were written for Creative Writing I by an untalented sophomore but ended up being "the greatest poems of the twentieth century" (I'm thinking of "Leda and the Swan" or "The Wasteland," for you readers in the group.) I know that about art-with-words and say I know that about painting, but I still have trouble tolerating the ambiguity of painting, the movement through stages that include unsightly and awkward as well as patches that I like but clearly have to paint over. The thing is to keep working. Chuck Close said something like "inspiration is for amateurs," that the most important thing is to work, that "stuff comes out of that." Or, in the immortal words of Tiffany, "So what if you fuck it up?"
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of using paint in different ways than just with a brush. I think it adds more to a painting, conceptually and visually. Using a variety of methods creates so much contrast right from the start. I'm beginning to understand how long a painting actually takes. I always knew a piece isn't normally created in just a few minutes or even a few hours, but it wasn't until I began painting myself that I really understood how much effort and time goes into a single piece. I'm not worrying so much about "mistakes" or brush hairs that are seen on whatever I'm working on. It's ok for something to get messed because you can always go back and fix it.
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I really liked her outlook on her process. She embodies the aspect of making mistakes or letting loose because it is a start of a great painting and also by the fact that some mistakes lead to a better outcome. By watching the video, I can already distinguish her containing a great level of profesionalism in her personality as well as her work.
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I like her work, in fact I have had many dreams abut it since seeing it on the computer. I find it organized, but not in a pedantic manner. I also think it takes great skill to show that, although the art is abstract, each piece has a sense of development througout it, not just a sense of repetition or monotony. I think this is done by a great sense of the line and its various forms, all throughout her work.
ReplyDelete- Allison Lewis allisonlewis0899@yahoo.com
I find Charline von Heyl's works to be very inspiring in my attempt to move towards abstraction; the "explosive" quality to some of her pieces and implied space with layers upon layers of different patterns is really eye-catching. I like her idea of "activating of space between the painting and the viewer," and I noticed that the "build up, build down, destroy it," comment she made reinforced the recent advice you gave us in class: you need to be willing to destroy your piece to make it great.
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Charline's work is very messy and she uses lots of patterns which contents geometry,in her work as well.She uses different line techniques and saturated colors. Charline has a different use of paint as she masks and tapes throughout her work.
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