This is an 18x24 oil, as large a format as I work on these days. We assume that landscape is about soft forms and cityscape is about hard forms, but I like to do cityscapes whose forms are soft somewhat. Also Brooklyn cityscapes give a great opportunity to use red. The graffiti on the building may be a real sign language that I have completely scrambled up, but I am more interested in its graphical energy just like the white markings in the road or the lintels over the windows.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Underhill and Bergen
This is an 18x24 oil, as large a format as I work on these days. We assume that landscape is about soft forms and cityscape is about hard forms, but I like to do cityscapes whose forms are soft somewhat. Also Brooklyn cityscapes give a great opportunity to use red. The graffiti on the building may be a real sign language that I have completely scrambled up, but I am more interested in its graphical energy just like the white markings in the road or the lintels over the windows.
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I like your graphical comparison of the graffiti with the lintels and the road stripes. I would add that fairly cryptic shadow cast by the light pole, of all things.
Sam, Thanks. I look at my feet and where they are going a lot. Somewhere Andrew Wyeth made a similar comment, but he painted his booted feet walking through a field of grass as a consequence.
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