WEEK 9:

Painting progress:

• use pva glue to play with the movement of the painting and stick onto another cardboard – like in the photo > different approach due to different order of fabrics used
• expressive landscape – also experimental

Ideas: disturbance

Experimenting with texture:

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DISPLAY IDEAS:

• display all components seperately, as paintings, on the wall, no mounting – banner idea?
• 2 x 2 washing lines to stretch all components, cardboard on the wall

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After having a look at the effect of PVA glue on the fabric and the painting, I was interested about the way it ‘shuts down’ the textural qualities of oil paint and a different perspective came to my mind – this painting/art piece may be interpreted as an environmental confrontation, a climate change commentary

This is because:

• at first glance, the pva glue, before drying (as on the photo above) can resemble water foam – symbolic of a natural instability ?? but this layer of pva glue can be also interpreted as a ‘wash down’ / backwash of a wave, which is interesting because it is created using a synthetic, polymer solution – plastic, which in fact is being washed down in oceans as pollution
• in addition, the fact that I used oil paint could be considered as another layer of the ridicule – both oil and plastic pollution are a big cause of climate change but this is especially interesting as I used water- soluble oil paints, which provides a direct ‘joke’/ message
• the layer of fabric, which in fact is also made up of synthetic material, creates a topographic/wave like texture, also with no gloss, no live – this piece could be seen a warning of the future ‘synthetic landscape’
• the ‘backbone’ of the painting/piece is a paper recycled (?) board – the use of this material may also be problematic as it’s considered to be more eco-friendly compared to plastic, but should be thoughtfully used considering the burning Amazon and the general over- cutting of trees
• the process which I made this piece may give more insight to the meaning that has emerged from the experimental process regarding materials/materiality – emotional and expressive, with initial theme of instability, translations and transitions, is an overall picture of my idea of showing complexity in general >> in this case, this is the complexity of the environmental crisis and emotional crisis and the struggle of ‘translating’ these, as in fact, climate change has been an overlooked problem/issue for years and only now, people, especially youth and young adults are acting

To summerise: I started this experiment with an emotional and expressive approach, which turned into an represenation of a climate/environmental crisis

Consultation:

– more is needed, to see continuation (5 more paintings/pieces perhaps) of the experiments, working with coincidences, teacher interested in the more 3D abstract painting, with fragile/delicate textures, abstract dimensional painting – ugly (progressive? weird?), don’t use natural colours

– scale: plan to bigger or work with different types of fabric, use something else instead of the paper board, material: foam board?

– context: more astract different context to be considered

– Artist: Katharina Grosse @ National Gallery Prague https://www.ngprague.cz/en/exposition-detail/katharina-grosse-wunderbild/